Be the "change" you want to see in the world. . .

Change is being talked about right now. Whether in politics or in yourself "change" is the new buzz. What's amazing is how we are so intrigued by it, talk about it, want it, yet it is so hard to bring ourselves to do it. How can you inspire change? Do you want change? I believe that if a person could commit to change in order to get something that you want, it could probably inspire another to apply that concept in their life. It all starts with you. Plus, how could you be instructing someone to change if you don't do so yourself. It makes perfect sense! Get the motivation, determination and get to it! Imagine all that you could accomplish? Imagine all the things you could inspire people to accomplish? What if the world suddenly just starting helping each other? Could it be possible? Let's give it a try, shall we?

If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person
If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house
If there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation
If there is order in the nation, there will be Peace in the World.

-Chinese Proverb

Free Motivation??

What motivates people? I sometimes wonder how different the world would be if more people in it were motivated? (Myself included) It's not easy to live. You get what you put in out of life. If you're not satisfied at what you currently have; don't be discouraged. You just need to put in more. Become someone that leads the way! Take what you need out of life, but also give a lot back. Get organized, oriented and on the ball! It's hard to get rid of the distractions, i know. . . tv, internet, magazines, etc. You are better than you think. You're capable of much much more. Find what motivates you and get yourself to where you want to be. You are what you want to be. Don't let anyone tell you different. You know what you need to do. So do it! If you don't know what you need to do, figure it out. Than do it! Step by step you'll make it that much closer to your goal.


The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to. ~ Aristotle

A moment of violence. . . I mean silence . . .

Silence for soldiers who've lost their lives in this money hungry republican powered, disgusting war. Yet 7 years later the violence continues to this day. Ironically not against the powers that supposedly created the conflict. I wonder when the public will take back their rights? Take back their world. This is your world as much as it is mine, and everyone else. I don't approve of my world like this. This is not what my world should be like. I shouldn't fear everyday of my life and feel unsafe at all, anywhere, ever. My world should be happy, abundant, beautiful. So should yours. What happen to the days where you could leave your doors and windows open and unlocked, where neighbors knew each others families let alone each others names, where I decide what I'm capable of instead of the government deciding for me. I can't talk on the cell phone while I drive, but I can file & pay taxes every year no matter what? RIDICULOUS! Who said I have to pay taxes? I was born into this with no say? WTF? This is not natural law, but a man made one. I really pray one day that we take the power back. I'll leave you with a song that pumps me up everytime I hear it, by a band called RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE.

TAKE THE POWER BACK

Bring that shit in! Uggh!

Yeah, the movement's in motion with mass militant poetry
Now check this out...uggh!

In the right light, study becomes insight
But the system that dissed us
Teaches us to read and right

So called facts are fraud
They want us to allege and pledge
And bow down to their God
Lost the culture, the culture lost
Spun our minds and through time
Ignorance has taken over
Yo, we gotta take the power back!
Bam! Here's the plan
Motherfuck Uncle Sam
Step back, I know who I am
Raise up your ear, I'll drop the style and clear
It's the beats and the lyrics they fear
The rage is relentless
We need a movement with a quickness
You are the witness of change
And to counteract
We gotta take the power back

Yeah, we gotta take the power back
Come on, come on!
We gotta take the power back

The present curriculum
I put my fist in 'em
Eurocentric every last one of 'em
See right through the red, white and blue disguise
With lecture I puncture the structure of lies
Installed in our minds and attempting
To hold us back
We've got to take it back
Holes in our spirit causin' tears and fears
One-sided stories for years and years and years
I'm inferior? Who's inferior?
Yeah, we need to check the interior
Of the system that cares about only one culture
And that is why
We gotta take the power back

Yeah, we gotta take the power back
Come on, come on!
We gotta take the power back

Hey yo check, we're gonna have to break it, break it,
break it down
Awww shit!

Uggh!
And like this...uggh!
Come on, yeah! Bring it back the other way!

The teacher stands in front of the class
But the lesson plan he can't recall
The student's eyes don't perceive the lies
Bouning off every fucking wall
His composure is well kept
I guess he fears playing the fool
The complacent students sit and listen to some of that
Bullshit that he learned in school

Europe ain't my rope to swing on
Can't learn a thing from it
Yet we hang from it
Gotta get it, gotta get it together then
Like the motherfuckin' weathermen
To expose and close the doors on those who try
To strangle and mangle the truth
'Cause the circle of hatred continues unless we react
We gotta take the power back

Yeah, we gotta take the power back
Come on, come on!
We gotta take the power back

No more lies
No more lies
No more lies
No more lies
No more lies
No more lies
No more lies
No more lies
Uggh!
Yeah!

Take it back y'all
Take it back, a-take it back
A-take it back y'all, come on!
Take it back y'all
Take it back, a-take it back
A-take it back y'all, come on!
Uggh!
Yeah!

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him? ~Blaise Pascal

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. ~Aldous Huxley

There never was a good war or a bad peace. ~Benjamin Franklin

You might not be able to change the world, but you can change the way you see it!

It's all in perspective. How many times in life have you misunderstood something? How many times in life have you been misunderstood? Sometimes all that's missing is some tiny bit of information or detail that was left out or unknown to you or perhaps the message was miscommunicated to you. Then magically understanding starts to click, click, click til the situation as you know it makes sense. So if you miscommunicate with others, is it safe to assume you miscommunicate things to yourself? When you're body is telling you it's sick and fragile and yet you continue to be unhealthy and strenuous. When you think of one way to do something but actually do it another way or even start on a completely different task. It is incredible how awesome this world and life in it really are. If you view the world as bad and what's the point of living? Than all you will focus on consciously and unconsciously is the bad. You won't let one bad thing you see slip. You will further reaffirm your belief that the world is bad. But imagine you decide how your day is going to be ahead of time? Imagine you take a stand and lead your life in the direction you want it to go? You want to be happy & successful and live in abundance of health and wealth. . . . What's stopping you? or should I ask who's stopping you? The answer is YOU.

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

You must be the change you want to see in the world.

~Mahatma Gandhi

You go first. .

I wonder if people are just waiting for you to make the first move all the time. I'm not really talking in relationships, although i'm pretty positive it happens often in that spectrum. I'm talking about maybe your sibling waiting for you to make the first move in competition, or perhaps in life successes. I wonder why people look to others to set their standards in goals and in life. It's like you want to just do enough. Not too much effort, but not be a bumb. It's interesting, who do you compare yourself to? Are you ahead of them? Are you tie? Are they better in other areas and you likewise? Does that take away from your identity to be you? Are you so caught up in competition that you've stopped living the life you want to live and not just tagging along on someone else's journey? Don't wait. You never know what's going to happen.

When you suffer, you look straight ahead. When it's fun you look left and right. ~Lance Armstrong

Oh, it's you again. Or is it?

It's funny how things just pop up. A $20 bill you left in your jacket pocket from last winter, the stupid name and number of a person or place that you were looking for last week, an old friend you meet again. Timing I think plays an important part in things. If throughout your life you can go back and adjust the time so that you knew than what you know now, or forward time so that an oppurtunity comes quicker or perhaps freeze time to enjoy something you once had, that much longer. As we've been told "you can't live in the past" so forget it! Live for today. You will never see what happens tomorrow. It will always be tomorrow!
As time passes people change, situations change, life changes, views & attitudes change, apearances. . etc What happened yesterday was yesterday, I am not the same person I was. More life was lived, interaction, communication, information learned or passed was had. I again grew. Talk to me today and see who I am. See if you have noticed a change. Am i wiser, softer, happier, angrier, smarter?
Treat your days with a lot more thought and care. If today was your last day would you really care your cousin upset you 2 years ago and you miss him and want to say good bye, or sorry or that you love them and you can't over a silly arguement or mistake. Do what you feel, swallow that pride for once. Forgive & live. Make your life happy. It's yours! You're the one living it everyday. Change things to make you more comfortable. Do all you can. Be your best and do your best! Live now, live today because that is all you are going to ever have!

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.
~Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919), to his students

Work hard, Play harder!!

Do Work! That's what everyone says, but not necessarily what they do. Is it possible to always reach your goals? Maybe not, it is always possible to do your best! Your best may vary from day to day but when you go home or lay your head to rest you will feel satisfied in knowing that you've done all that you could today and you can continue where you left off tomorrow. The trick is to start your days off in the mindset that today you will do everything you can to achieve your goal. If you start off your day with intentions, don't you think you will get farther and achieve more? I'm sure of it! Especially when you put in your best effort everyday. (Okay well maybe not everyday). You get what you give. The satisfaction lies in you. If every night you recap the days events and try to adjust for the next day I can guarantee that you will achieve a lot more than you thought. How else do you think people succeed? If you don't feel satisfied every day in what you do, where you live, how you act than change it. It may take a short amount of time or maybe a longer period but the end result will be to your benefit. Before you can help anyone you must first help yourself. You can not take care of people without your interests being met first. So Do You & Do Work!!!

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full
effort is full victory.~

Mahatma Gandhi