It's 2009 baby! a new year, and that means; a new start. So, what we want is to continue our beautiful smiles and continue whatever good we were already producing.. How to make a start?
1. A question to all of us: "What kind of people do we want to be?" The answer lays close to us, though, it seems so far away. Two things to be rememberd:
- Be calm;
- Be generous.
And what does it mean to be calm? Calm all the time? Calm whenever our lives are in dangerous? Let me portray an example: The phone is ringing, you pick up the phone, and the minute you pick up the phone, a woman from a telephone company starts to get very angry and very annoyed; she keeps blaming you for the wrong address you gave her and that things aren't going well because of you giving her the wrong address..
It doesn't matter if it was or wasn't the right address, but the point is: What to do in these sorts of situations?
This is a very, very good moment to not choose to get angry or frustrated towards the angry woman.
Be the bigger person, instead of joining and stimulate the frustration..
Whatever happends, we can not blame the circumstance.
As we go into 2009 we must decide what we want to achieve by the end of 2009.
Sometimes we have to decide before the circumstances come: that we will decide not to burst out in all kinds of impulsive emotions.
This becomes a choice in life..
Building character in our lives is making smart descions..
It's better to make smart descions than to, if we're already stuck in the trouble, just do what we'd like to do at that certain moment.
Talent is something we got, opportunities are things we recieve.
When we are old and have experienced a lot in our lives, we take off all the masks and have no boundaries for whatever we will do. But, we can make a change in that and make this descion earlier in life!
So we can ride through the ups and downs. We want people who are faithful; very important to build up our character. As we learn to keep our word, we learn to be faithful towards life.
Another thing what's good to change our character to is: to be kind of heart.
Be kind hearted..
Sometimes we feel very annoyed by people and some people deserve to be annoyed by. Choose to show kind of heart in a situation where it's hard to be the bigger person. People will annoy us along our lives, but it's up to us to change how we are towards people and it's not the task of the circumstances.
"(..) how we should be is quick to listen and slow to speak (..)"
"(..) Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you." (James 1:19 -21)
Proverbs 29:18: "Where there is no vision the people are unrestrained, but happy is who keeps the law."
We live in an age where we are so free to do almost anything we want, to get something done we should keep our word and stick to it. And that's to be happy.
You and I are the same.. When we decide to do things we stand for, when we learn to keep our promises and learn to have a great character, we will be happy.
Be genenours towards people: give our friends compliments, give our parents compliments, be there for the people who need it and give what you have to others who do not have these.
Sure it's hard: who said life was going to be easy? We can make it through, we will be happy with ourselves, we are wonderful, we are good, we can survive.
We got to understand that we can't always live on the high points of our lives, and nobody can always live on the low points of our lives.
When we are searching for help and love, we always try to look for help in others, but the truth is, that the help we need is right in our own hands.
2. Learn something new in 2009!
We should never, ever stop learning.. We go to school or work to learn how to learn, not to just learn all the facts. Make a list of what your dreams and goals are for this fresh, new year! And start making descions by the end of 2009.. Start to learn to play an instrument, or go to college, learn a new trick, learn about our own community, help others.. you name it!
And what happends, if we start seeing the happiness in everyone and everything in our lives, we will turn back to the person who we really are..
cylia loves smiles
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