"For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and
asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do
what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something." - Steve Jobs
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| One Day |
It's you, not events, that have the power to make you happy or unhappy
today. You can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow
hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, to make that decision
and I suggest you make decisions that are going to make you happy be
happy in it.
Here's a story. "As a kid, I was always doing the right things. I was active in sports, school work and I was just a great kid to be around. However, one day my life changed for the worse. I was hanging out with some school kids, and I wanted to try out things I'd been told not to do. They had weed wrapped in a piece of paper and asked me to try it, that it wasn't a big deal...I took it between my fingers like I'd seen in movies; after it was lighted and took a drag. I'd started smoking pot.
I was a junior in high school when I started and i instantly became hooked. I smoked pot basically every single day my Senior year of high school. I got arrested for possession and right before I graduated form high school I got a DWI (Driving While Intoxicated). After that, loved ones started questioning who I really was. I just want to be able to make the people that love me proud and I don't want to give them any reason to worry. They have forgiven me but they didn't forget. I am in college now still trying to figure out what I want to do the rest of my life...I don't know for sure how things would have been if I hadn't taken that decision that day, but I sure know, that this isn't how I wanted my life to be. And it's funny how you have to pay for years, one careless or wrong decision you took in a day.
The decisions we make daily have the potential to either make us or mar our destiny. The way a single decision can elevate us, is the same way it can mess us up.
Here's a story. "As a kid, I was always doing the right things. I was active in sports, school work and I was just a great kid to be around. However, one day my life changed for the worse. I was hanging out with some school kids, and I wanted to try out things I'd been told not to do. They had weed wrapped in a piece of paper and asked me to try it, that it wasn't a big deal...I took it between my fingers like I'd seen in movies; after it was lighted and took a drag. I'd started smoking pot.
I was a junior in high school when I started and i instantly became hooked. I smoked pot basically every single day my Senior year of high school. I got arrested for possession and right before I graduated form high school I got a DWI (Driving While Intoxicated). After that, loved ones started questioning who I really was. I just want to be able to make the people that love me proud and I don't want to give them any reason to worry. They have forgiven me but they didn't forget. I am in college now still trying to figure out what I want to do the rest of my life...I don't know for sure how things would have been if I hadn't taken that decision that day, but I sure know, that this isn't how I wanted my life to be. And it's funny how you have to pay for years, one careless or wrong decision you took in a day.
The decisions we make daily have the potential to either make us or mar our destiny. The way a single decision can elevate us, is the same way it can mess us up.
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