A life of comfort will make you weak
Risk is exciting
Love makes a man selfless
There is no peace in love
Resist the temptation to seek popularity
Don’t think, don’t ruminate
Laziness is a vice
If you plan for happiness you will drive it away
Use means survival, so do something useful.
If we sit back, and assume the future will be good because “destiny is in control” we couldn’t be more wrong. It is up to us to make the future good.
A bad friend is worse than a bad enemy.
The easy way out is the easiest way to take.
It is hard to be good. It is easy to be bad.
Reach out
Be tough
Ask, what is really important in life?
Lead an active life
Work harder
Don’t slack
Act the way you want to feel
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Teens and young readers, check out this cool collection of short stories i have written. Available for kindle. Hope everybody likes it. Jorgo: Funny Stories for Kids
I recently bought a self help book: Better than Before: Mastering the Habits of our Everyday Life by Gretchen Rubin. In this book Gretchen talks about habits; good and bad. She gives methods for breaking a bad habit. For example, one chapter is called: You manage what you monitor. This chapter stresses the importance of monitoring your bad habits. You can monitor them quantitatively. Once you monitor a habit, you can manage it.
Case Study:
One bad habit I have is washing my hands too thoroughly and too often. This leads to dry skin, especially during the cold winter months. So I decided to “do something about it.” I posted a note on my bathroom mirror: “COUNT to 10.” This means I only get 10 seconds to wash up. Another reminder I wrote is, “No unnecessary washes,” and of course “Moisturize.” Has this method help me break or manage my bad habit? No, not yet. But this is because I don’t have the willpower to follow my own rules! However I am following the “Counting to 10” rule rather well. If I could just follow my two other rules, I could manage or break this habit.
For those of you who may have a habit you want to manage or break, I have two notes:
1. if you want to break a habit, you must remember a habit. (Use a note. Post it in front of you, where the habit happens.)
2. Resisting a bad habit is hard. (When the going gets tough, do not give up. Follow the rules you set for yourself with willpower, but remember to give yourself a break too)
George Shetuni 