A Note for Youth

A Note for Youth
~ Remrie Arrie

Comprehension of Time and Life
Age certainly is a funny thing it’s both a reflection of our greatness, and something to be ashamed of. I’m personally 22 years old at the time I write this to you, I’m at the age every kid wants to be, out on your own, able to do anything I want, free to the world, etc… And older people want to be, to be ‘beautiful’ again, to be fit and healthy.

The entire point of growing up and older is to get out on your own, do what you want, have the freedom to drive, the freedom to drink and buy porn, the freedom to move out, get a job, earn money, buy a car, etc

But even since age 20 I remember people saying to me ‘Damn you’re old!!!’ as if it were something bad, I remember at age 16 talking with my friends saying “Once I hit 50 I’m killing myself because I don’t want to be old” and yet when I was 19 I asked a group of kids, a 3, 5, and 7 year old “Are you all grown ups?” and all of them said yes.

It is interesting, to be such a highly desired state of being yet feared beyond age 20, scary beyond age 30, and somehow hopeless beyond 40, and beyond 50 our fears, helplessness, lack of control, envy of the youth, responsibilities keep piling up, and when mixed together if our life wasn’t well managed we crash… and start looking for last minute solutions to compensate.

And yet when we’re young we think we have all the time of the world. That somehow the laws of mortality don’t apply to us in that we will never die, always be just fine, things will always be the same etc. We can know that something will happen, but very few can actually comprehend their own mortality without witnessing the death of another human in front of their eyes. And with the beliefs of a better place in Heaven, another chance with reincarnation, continual existence through the rest of the environment as if our spirit never leaves and that somehow we always have a ‘reset’ button as if life were nothing but a videogame.

At age 5 I could never possibly comprehend being 10,
At 10 I could never comprehend being 15,
At 15 I could never comprehend being 20,
At 20 I could never comprehend being 22.
At 22 I can’t even begin to comprehend being 25 let alone 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100.

I can make estimated guesses, but when I was 10 years old I never could have even begin to imagine that in 10 years I would live in Los Angeles CA, train exotic animals, travel across the country, interact on something as vast as the internet, communicate with people all around the world instantly, become homeless, have the best friend in the entire world, and change genders from a young baby boy eating home grown cherry tomatoes to a beautiful young woman with guys hitting on her as she still continues eating cherry tomatoes. Some things never stop changing, but many things never do change. The only things that never stop changing are our habits.

Habits
Those habits are also what define us. If you think mean things you will likely do mean things, when you do mean things you will keep doing mean things. If you think about smoking and doing drugs, you will be more likely to smoke and do drugs, once you start smoking and doing drugs you will keep doing it. For better or worst our habits are what define who we are and as a result – who or what we become.

The biggest habit of the youth is feeling hopeless… being young we think we’re hopeless that somehow our age is the reason why we CAN’T do anything, when you’re ‘older’ you replace the excuse with age with the lack of money being the reason why you can’t do anything. So perpetually into the seemingly infinite years of our lives we feel hopeless that somehow we are not capable and that somehow others are more special for having achieved what we want.

We feel hopeless that we’re not old enough to stay out at night
We feel hopeless that we’re not able to get a job
We feel hopeless that we’re not old enough to drive
We feel hopeless that we’re not old enough to move out
We feel hopeless that we’re stuck in school forever
We feel hopeless that we have to fallow other people’s rules. Parents, police, government
We feel hopeless
We feel hopeless
We feel hopeless
We feel hopeless
We feel hopeless

“I feel hopeless” that is much of what we feel being young… and it never goes away, even now at age 22 I still feel helpless and hopeless at times, but age is no longer an excuse because theoretically I should be able to do whatever I want and I cannot lie to myself that my age is a reason I CAN’T do something…. But this is where everyone starts saying ‘I don’t have enough money’, ‘if only I had more money’, and once they make enough money they say ‘I don’t have enough time’, ‘if only I had enough time’.

Because of this habit we may live our entire lives feeling helpless and hopeless that there is no solution to our problem; when in reality the solution is the creation of a habit that suggests ‘I can do more, what am I not doing that I should be doing, what can I do to be more creative, etc.’

And then there is the dreaded word: Can’t

I can’t ___________
I can’t ___________
I can’t ___________
I can’t ___________
I can’t ___________

For whatever the reasons we feel we can’t, that somehow things are impossible and is not feasible in anyway shape or form. For the sake of yourself if there is any time you say “I can’t” it would be in your best interest to just say “I won’t”. Not because I say so, after all who am I to tell you what to do? But if there is any reason you cannot do something, the very least you can do is accept responsibility by saying “I won’t” rather than pass the blame upon something else.
Because either one of two things will happen
1. You will accept responsibility by default that you simply will not bother trying without a single complaint or excuse. Because there is nothing wrong with saying “I won’t” in anything, after all if it’s impossible you are not at fault. If you can’t defy gravity you choose to say you won’t defy gravity.

Eventually in time you will learn how this method of thinking can later prevent future destructive thinking habits of pushing the blame upon others and not accepting responsibility and believing what you’re capable of.

2. You reject it fearing that you are held liable as if the reason you can’t do something is because you knowingly won’t let it happen in your life and thus reject that responsibility.

In positive vocabulary workshops the words that are to be banned from your daily language aren’t curse words, they’re the words: Can’t & Impossible among a select few others because these words create the sense of hopelessness when not used to support you.

It’s one thing to say
“It’s impossible for me to fail”

It’s another to say
“It’s impossible for me to succeed”

Try closing your eyes and think of something you want, spend a few seconds repeating each of those over in your head over and over again then use the other and compare how you feel. The more you can own the feeling of desire for what you want the more dramatic the effect will be. If it’s not something you really want in life then it won’t be as powerful.

But it goes without question that the feeling of helplessness is what prevents positive change from ever occurring in our lives, especially if we don’t analyze it and develop a clear plan of action to reduce our fears and take on the challenge one little baby step at a time. And that’s all that’s needed; baby steps towards a solution of that helplessness.

But why is it we seemingly can’t do something?
Why is it seemingly impossible?
Why is it that ‘it’ can’t happen?
Is it your too young?
Is it because your parents don’t let you?
Is it because you don’t have parents?
Is it because you don’t have a car?
Is it because you don’t get an allowance?
Is it because your teachers say so?
Is it because the cops won’t let you?
Is it because the ‘system’ is against you? Is it because the kids around you think it’s bad?
Is it because you’re alone?
Is it because you don’t know what to do?
Is it because you have no support?
Is it because you don’t know who to turn to?
Is it because it’s immoral?
Is it because it’s unethical?
What is your reason of because?


I’ll let you in on a secret.
Do you want to know my reasons why everything was impossible for me?
Everything was impossible for me because I never believed I could possibly do anything.
Every time anything couldn’t be done, every time something went bad, every time something was out of control it was somehow never my fault.

“It’s not my fault all this happened, it’s my sister’s fault. Why did you kick me out when she was the one who started it?”

“I can’t ever do something that great in life, it’s impossible; you have to be born rich and powerful. They’re lucky, I’m not, I’m poor.”

“Why did they arrest me and throw me in jail? Don’t they know my side of the story? They won’t listen to a thing I say, they get paid to do this why would they ever want to help someone? I’m only just a kid.”

“I can’t wear a skirt because I’m a guy, it’s not my fault they won’t let me, I didn’t choose to be a guy, it shouldn’t make a difference, it’s unfair girls get to wear both pants and a skirt and be so pretty and cute.”

“I don’t have money because I don’t have a job, I’m too young to have a job, nobody will hire me, nobody is hiring anyways, I’m not good at anything to begin with.”

“Why can’t everyone just go away and leave me alone? I didn’t ask for this, it’s their fault.”

“Everyone is out to get me...”

I will tell you right now accepting responsibility for my own actions is the most difficult things I have ever had to do in my life, and to this day it plagues me even after years of developing it into a habit to accept that I have the power; and I do. But it’s just so much easier to shift the blame to others, and in reality they deserve their fair share. When there is a problem between two people and they both accept that they are responsible you can bet they both have their own issues to resolve, but at the same time it is guaranteed that everything will be resolved. At least if one person accepts responsibility then there is the chance it can all be avoided and/or fixed.

But if nobody accepts responsibility, then they are just two siblings throwing trash across the hall into each other’s room complaining that the other is responsible for all the trash. And in the end they both still have a dirty room they must clean up themselves anyways and a dirty hallways between them both which neither will ever touch.

We must accept at the bare minimum at least our part of the mess in our life, even at age 20 I kept blaming everyone else; because I was perfect. Or so I thought. But then when things couldn’t have gotten any worst in my life I physically made an immediate change in my life that no matter what I was 100% responsible for everything in my life and I have 100% control of everything that happens in my life, and to this day I still do. But since then every day thereafter my life has only become better for it because of it.

After all when you live on your own and your place is a mess whose fault is it?

There are sometimes you just have to look at the reality of the mess your life is in and do something and it is likely in this moment you will indeed feel helpless.
Helpless because nobody will assist you
Helpless because it will take too long
Helpless because it is too hard
Helpless because it is too boring
Helpless because you have other things to do
Helpless because you don’t have the money to hire someone to do it for you
Helpless because it’s late at night and you’re tired
Helpless because it’s too early and you have to go to work or want to sleep in
Helpless because you have school
Helpless because you feel your friend caused it
Helpless because you feel it will only become dirty again
Helpless because it simply doesn’t matter
Helpless because you’re expected to not be clean
Helpless because others don’t clean theirs
Helpless because others will tease you if you do
Helpless because you feel incapable
Helpless because it can’t be prevented.

The more situations you apply this to the greyer the area becomes in what is your fault and what isn’t. But it all starts with accepting that you were significantly to blame for it in some way or form, and that you have 100% control of yourself to determine what is going to happen in your life.

Yes is such thing as dumb luck… what happens that simply is unavoidable for better or worst, but nobody focuses on all the good luck, just the bad, that in of itself is a habit.

But it goes without question that you create your own luck. It’s a very hard concept to believe, but once you realize how and why and you start to make it happen you realize that you do create your own luck. The habits we create are habits that determine how much positive luck we have in our life.

The habits you create are the habits that are what contribute to what you experience in your life. If you have poor habits, you will have a poor life. Poor habits of hanging out with bad people, poor habits of playing videogames, poor habits of not brushing your teeth, poor habits of eating too much junk food, etc.

If you want positive things in your life, create positive habits to support those things.
If you want good teeth make a habit of brushing your teeth.
If you want good friends make a habit of making good friends.
If you want to always have money make a habit of saving money.
If you want to be rich, make a habit of doing what the rich do.

While so young you may feel limited, at age 20, 40, 80 or 160+ years old you will always be limited by something. It may be hard to comprehend, but if you’re limited as a kid, you will be limited as an adult with kids. If you can show the world you got what it takes even at your age then people will come to you expecting to be wowed off their feet by your awesomeness.



Influences in our Lives
Number games like the lottery and your genetics, and who your parents are, are strictly luck that are impossible to change… No matter what the various religions says, if it happens it happens without question. Even if you don’t agree with the statement and you think you exist in your particular situation for a specific cause and that it’s not mere chance then you still need to accept your position as what you were given to work with. You may be destined to have been born in your position, but you’re destined to have complete control over your destiny.

Because of that, the lottery of life, everything from the day you’re born can all be controlled by you. When you feel helpless and express helplessness what you are doing is giving up your lottery of life to people who will pick the game and what happens for you.

There was a commercial on TV that was nothing but a guy standing in a room doing absolutely nothing, and the commercial showed high speed time laps film work of people scrambling all around. They were picking his clothes, picking his hair, putting cigs in his mouth, drugs in his hand, spiking his hair, dying it green… They were willing to make every choice he didn’t want to make for himself, and in reality that’s what we all do, especially when we’re young. We are extremely opinionated and want to control what others do and how they do it and we feel we have the right to do so… freedom of speech after all right? But at the end of this commercial the guy held out his arms told everyone to stop and he simply walked away to make his own decisions. From there he will make his own choice of what to wear, what to do, how to be, etc.

And it goes beyond that. When we let these people influence us, especially at youth it really is a form of brain control, you willingly give up what you physically do with your life to your peers around you. By hanging out with druggies you will find yourself doing drugs. By hanging out with gang members you will find yourself committing crimes and in jail. By hanging out with your teammates you will find yourself always playing sports.

This is why kids typically continue the path of what other family members do if they are close to the family. Generations of people will stay in the circus industry because their father, grand father, and great grandfather have all done it and they might be admired by that person.

If you don’t want bad luck in your life you shouldn’t be hanging out with people that attract that luck. That’s not to say those individuals themselves are bad, they too are their own individual form of infinite potential, just like you are as well. But with such infinite potential why limit yourself to a lower form of existence than what you want to become?

Who’s to say this rule can’t apply in the other direction?

If you want to become a millionaire, super star, model, etc. the quickest way to do that is to become friends with people who have a million dollars, who are renowned, who are beautiful, etc. If you want to be the best you must hang out and interact with the best, and I’ll tell you right now you will face a lot of rejection by them, especially if you’re choosing other young people who don’t understand the concepts, but if you keep with it, asking the right people, you might find yourself learning from the best of the best.

If you want to be a great athlete how does hanging out with fat videogame players help you? The quickest most effective way is to hang out with athletes who are better than you. If you find yourself to be the best at what you do you have to go out looking harder for other people and/or diversify what you do.

If you want to be a _____________ you must affiliate with people who do the same and who does it better than you.

Be with those who support what you believe in, who will encourage you, and teach you. There is a fine line between socializing for company hanging out with some skater punk group tearing up the town, hanging out uptown with all the other guys drinking and playing music from cars, roaming the streets at night out of boredom, and socializing for beneficial progress to your needs.

Socializing for beneficial progress to your needs and wants in life is the most effective way to ensure your success, otherwise it’s an uphill battle without help from people who are also going uphill with you. This is good because once you’re at ‘The Top’ then you have friends up there with you, and you will be able to bring others with you who look up to you.

Opposition
But like any up hill battle, many people insist on playing ‘King of the Hill’ as if the hill can only be dominated by one, and so they smack down others and make them feel bad, or people who are behind you don’t want to lose or be left behind so they latch onto you and drag you back to the bottom.

How do you deal with opposition that gets in your way? A natural instinct is to go with it to a certain extent then at some defined line drawn by you it becomes natural to push back. An example of this is a man (Adrian Law) who asked a volunteer to hold up her while he put up his to hers, then suddenly without warning he pushed forward and at a certain point the girl resisted instinctively. It was an example to prove the same point, one which you may experiment with your friends without telling them exactly what the reason is for at first.

Another example of this is my freshman year of high-school, while most freshmen are worried about being hazed by the senior class, I was having to deal with such stuff from the school principal. In that year through the resistance of him and the people around creating opposition against me I had a very short line of tolerance before resisting back, and resisting very hard.

In that one year I was tackled and restrained to the floor at least 6 times that year by 3 large male teachers despite being the shortest and smallest of my class, I was arrested on 4 accounts, suspended the final 30 days of school, and most of my days were spent in “In School Suspension”. And by the end of it I was in juvenile hall and placed on 30 day probation.

The ironic thing is, I had already made a goal to be the best student I could possibly be and never get in trouble at all for anything. And I had a reason and cause to support my desire I was thrilled to, but when things happened I didn’t expect I over reacted, didn’t accept my responsibility, blamed others, and had a bad habit of picking fights against those who gave me trouble. I was that nice little weak frail kid no bully would dare pick on

Needless to say I did not react to opposition well, but it was the only way I knew I could defend myself. After that, combined with much more I learned that it was best not to react to anything, at all, ever, good or bad I shut myself off from the rest of the world for the next 6 years and never opened up to anyone out of fear of their reaction to anything they might see as opposition from me.

So, how is it you deal with opposition that impedes your desires, offends you, and contradicts what you stand for and so on?

How do you feel when people seemingly press against what makes you who you are as if they’re trying to change that?

It hurts huh? It’s insulting, it’s violating, invasive, traumatic, and more.

It took many years of martial arts and personal experience to fully understand this myself but when you’re so young, with parents, teachers, peers, government, TV, trends and countless other pressures, you have to be able to flow efficiently through such opposition with enough grace and control to not over react and flow with it.

Removing Opposition
If you watch a lot of cartoons like me, one in particular Dragon Ball Z, an army of bad guys would shoot hundreds of bullets (or balls of energy) at one character and as if he were walking through a forest dodging trees in slow motion, the person would casually dodge every bullet as if it were nothing to fear and would come out unscathed. Another example would be the Matrix when the characters dodge bullets or stop them in mid flight.

Essentially that’s what life is in the modern world. So many advertisements, so many peers, teachers, family, movies, songs, shows, etc trying to get us to do something we find ourselves beaten to death every day of our lives it seems. But if you can stand up and take control of the situation, and determine that you will not be influenced by others in any way other than what you allow you can have 100% control over yourself and what happens in your life.

The first thing I did when I took 100% control of my life was get rid of TV, to this day I don’t use it for anything other than select movies/DVDs, and the occasional videogame about once a month. I also make an effort to never listen to the radio anywhere other than the car and even then it’s off for much of the time.

I replaced my negative songs by Korn, Disturbed, Rob Zombie, etc with more positive Bob Marley, Bobby McFerrin, Louis Armstrong, and other happy feel good songs, I’ll listen to the old songs for a nice change of pace as I am right this very second as I type this, but nothing long term in comparison. I also replace much of what I hear with audio tapes and positive and motivational, as well that teach me how to do things I want in life to make up for what parents and teachers won’t or can’t teach me.

When it comes to physical threatening opposition I’ve come to understand 90% of it comes with the people you hang out with, while the people you hang out with might not cause problems for you personally, but other people they know might have problems with you. This is why gangs are dangerous. It’s all cool and great and supportive unity of brother-hood bonded by blood for all life, but by affiliating with them everyone who is against them, other gangs, cops, parents, and individuals, they will all be out against you because of your choice. And for the most part for good reason and they’re right, they just tend to go about it all the wrong ways especially like cops did with me. So while the people in the gang might be great as individuals, that particular network of friends isn’t beneficial for your wants and needs.

So to control that selecting your friends wisely is what has been the greatest help to me, it took years to get my network of friends to where its at now, despite not having many of people I have a small group of friends that I would never trade them for anything.

While I have gone to the more extreme to control every influence upon me and negate any opposition that tries to guide me away from what I want in life, everyone has their own level to which is appropriate, you might not need to go as far.

But the point is as you take control of what you allow to have influence over you and what isn’t, the rest is easy to avoid all together, and the better you get at it the easier and easier it becomes.

What do you find of not much benefit to your life? TV and videogames are definitely the two biggest for youth, sodas and junk food, negative peers who cause trouble or do nothing at all, songs, certain individuals, etc.

When you pinpoint what is clogging your mind and creating opposition and/or control you, you can then start weeding out their influence over you and when you do so it is a very free experience. It may seem utterly boring but there is more to life than being entitled to having every need of personal entertainment met. If you can sink into a new found way of life, even if it’s not entertaining you might find it to be so much more worth while than any other form of entertainment you might have otherwise got addicted to in the past.

Lets face it, videogames are awesome, but only in limited amounts. Otherwise surviving zombie attacks, alien invasions, monsters, wizards, war, little animals and cartoon characters is all fine and dandy but it doesn’t take long for it to become just as everyday as everyday life.

You Are Capable No Matter What Your Situation
Trust me with this, you are capable, you have what it takes, you have more than enough resources, you are powerful, you are young, you have lots of time to benefit from, you have lots of time to learn, but at the same time little or no time to waste. The main excuse young people make is ‘I got enough time’… until they’re 40, with 2 kids and just got laid off after a divorce with rent to pay. I’m 22 in the year 2009 and by habit when I write the date I’ll still say 2004 when I was 18, when I was 18 I was writing year 2000 out of habit… Time has this wickedly annoying illusion of seemingly taking forever, but flying by in the rush of thrilling excitement when everything is going great.

Which should be your motivation, if you’re so young with lots of time to kill, you should do something that’s not only fun and thrilling, but beneficial for yourself over the long term. Then when you’re 22 you will be looking at the calendar saying ‘Wow time flies, I can’t believe I’m this far already, I’m glad I don’t have to worry about money because I chose to take interest buying real estate instead of playing Sim City.

If you don’t believe you have the power build habits to reinforce that you do. Say powerful affirmations to promote your success

I have what it takes.
I am capable.
I am smart.
I am creative.
I am confident.
I will succeed.
I must succeed
I am succeeding
I do it wonderful
I am a master at it
I am better than everybody else
I am perfect
What I say is what happens
I do not fail
It’s impossible for me to fail
I never give up
Etc.

There are many ways to repeat those and make them stick in your life. Posting them on your walls, repeating them in your head, making a video with those, recording your voice saying them and playing it back to yourself, and many many more. The more positive friends you have to support you in this, the more you will be supported in real life by these same statements.

Still not convinced?

There is a 11 year old Asian girl with glasses named Adora Svitak who actively works with adults and teachers teaching them how to teach children. Think about that, a child who is teaching adults how to effectively meet the needs of children. On top of that she charges money to do so, and because of that she does make a fair good sum especially for a 11 year old. Now anyone can pass on the blame expressing the bad habit of not accepting such responsibility by saying she’s super smart and all that blah blah blibity blah “I am inferior, I am not worth” stuff. But in reality we all have our own unique infinite potential as a human, and no person has ever drawn a line and said ‘This is the line of human potential’; anyone who has had that line crossed countless times.

Here are some articles
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/870113.html
http://www.adorasvitak.com/


If you care at all for my personal opinion, I’m guessing that if you don’t then you wouldn’t read this far, but I will honestly say when I look at any person who is 12 years old I see someone who is more than capable of taking on any challenge just as much as any 21 year old. There are a lot of reasons that go into why more children don’t express that side of them which I will skip, but when I see the intelligence of individuals at that age shine in something they are interested in, I see something just as powerful, if not more powerful than anything I ever see in adults. Too many adults never ‘grow up’ so to speak. But this isn’t just not an act of growing up and growing old, it’s a process of growing young in mind and spirit. While others might say “I want to stay a kid and enjoy it” which is completely accurate, there is also nothing to say you cannot enjoy being a kid doing something you love that is so powerful in your life.”

To me grown ups are children who never learned to grow young in mind and spirit, too many adults are just as childish as any newborn… And that kids are old people who are growing young in mind and spirit who are able to enjoy and have fun in life and appreciate the finer things without being too critical of being a ‘responsible’ adult.

I believe that because I asked a group of 3 kids, one age 3, the other 5 and 7 “Are you all grown ups” and they all said yes, and yet every ‘grown up’ I’ve ever called themselves a kid have turned out to always be more responsible, more happy go lucky, more down to earth, and more capable of doing anything and everything they ever wanted. Yet you call a young person a kid, child, baby, etc and it’s typically received as an insult.

If you were to start growing young now, by the time you’re 20 or 30 you’d be one of the youngest people alive in both mind and body, and with that you have the absolute maximum potential to unleash the infinite potential you have as a human being.

Still not convinced?
Search your feelings then… How have you felt when there was something you’ve ever wanted to really do that would really benefit you that people have said ‘no’. Not something irrelivent like hanging out with friends, buying a videogame, etc, but something you know would be of REAL importance to you?

Maybe a dog or cat for companionship and company? Most of my best friends were cats, and through animals you can learn a lot through psychology, animal training and behavior, real life practical skills needed when you’re older. Anyone who says otherwise has never worked in the animal industry. A key trait in business you need is to be able to train others, and if you can train a cat, you can train a person.

Maybe you asked for a car because you can’t afford one? Try looking at that one as a partnership, it works the same way in real estate, business, and anything else that requires help from others. If you can pull that off you’re learning real applicable skills needed in being a great negotiator and partner later on. Or if you take on the challenge of doing it yourself you will be pushing yourself to new limits you might not have otherwise realized you could do, and as you get further in your life in anything you want to do that can be a very valuable trait.

Maybe you wanted to prove your worth by working for someone but they chose not to? If you go through history, you’ll see many people who pestered the same person over and over and over again on a daily or weekly basis in order to prove themselves to be great as individuals. Some of the best Broadway dancers in history, athletes, singers, actors, and more, and in many cases they would be driven away and paid to go away but they would decline to keep going. The persistence needed and dedication to express such desire for something you know is best in your heart and life is one of the most powerful tools to becoming successful in anything.

Maybe you don’t want to work for your money? I know I don’t, nor does anyone else and there is something to be said in that, but you have to go about it the right way. When people are young the most common job they want is being paid to play unreleased videogames… Oh but that is too easy, they do far more work than that, they work REAL hard’; but it’s a start. Try this, make your own videogames and sell them for about $3 as phone applications for people to pay for and download. A man with a regular job learned how to do that online in his spare time through his Iphone, and his first game he sold for $3 which was downloaded enough times to earn him over $600,000! Now he does it full time. He’s still working for money, but he’s working much less for a lot more.

Trust me, if nobody believes in you listen to these words and feel them when I say: You have more potential as a human being than anybody will ever able comprehend, even more than you could possibly comprehend. And with that you have all the power to unleash it by focusing it on one thing in your life to make any positive change happen you want. You just need the confidence, plan of action, habits to keep working on those plans, and the right people to support and work with you… that’s about all you ever need. Role models, resources/tools and a few other things are of great help too but they come in time, and in this day and age you probably have the internet at home and on your cell phone. And in reality that gives you an infinitely valuable tool to express your infinite potential. You have all the power in your heart, in your mind and your soul no matter who you are, your age, what you do. Your very existence defies all logic, let alone what you are capable of. Do it. “Just do it” ~ Nike

Playing the Game and Resources
Getting what you want isn’t about working hard, it’s about being as efficient and creative as possible to create a solution to a problem for which you can benefit from while providing a service to others. And with it, it requires dedication, ambition, desire, passion, persistence, confidence, repetition, and habitual attempts. It has to be in your thoughts, your dreams, how you walk how you talk and more. If it’s not, then you’re likely not going to succeed at it no matter how hard you work. That’s why people work 2 or 3 jobs just scraping by making ends meet. Some of the poorest people are the most hard working.

People with bad habits of making excuses, not accepting responsibility and blaming others would say it’s not fair and that people who have money should share theirs, but it is the poor who more often than not refuse to share what they have. And what it takes to become so successful takes much more than what they are willing to accept.

It is a team sport, it is a number game (dollars are the points), there is never just a winner or loser and the game is divided up into four quarters like a football game by age.
- Under 25 Pregame show
- 25 – 35 1st quarter
- 35 – 45 2nd quarter
- 45 – 55 3rd quarter
- 55 – 65 4th quarter
- 65+ overtime
- Out of time (get the picture?)

You’re in the pregame show if you’re under 25 like me, so you might as well make it one hell of a show by giving it everything you got, scaring your competition, and dominate the field with all you got. But to do that you need a good team to back you, and a good plan of action.

People who fail at it working 2 or 3 jobs just to make ends meet are playing the same game with nobody on their team and they are just getting creamed. Do you want to be one of them?

If you can play Monopoly and you know the basics of any team sport (basketball, football, soccer, etc) then you have a real tool you can use as a workshop to figure out how to win in the game of life for real.

Even better if you can, see if you can find a copy of the game ‘Cashflow 101’, it works differently than Monopoly in that it is much more applicable to real life, it can be difficult to play but it’s extremely worth it.

It has been said by many highly rich and successful individuals “The Internet is the most powerful tool ever invented that makes it easier than ever for anybody to become rich and successful faster than ever before in history.”

And that goes without saying, there is no way to even compete in the world anymore without using the internet as a tool for benefit. It is so powerful in fact people like Michael Dell was in college building computers as a side job and it got to the point where he was making more money making computers than he would in his chosen career. So he dropped out of college and created Dell computers, it’s quite possible you’re using something his company has built.

The same thing goes for the guy that made a game for Iphones by selling them over the internet that netted him $600,000 in quite a short amount of time, likely less than a year.

It is also what the 11 year old teacher uses to reach out to other schools from her basement using a little studio her parents built so she can hold seminars and give lectures to schools without leaving her house

Everybody uses the internet to some extent if they have access to it. Here’s the question, are you using the internet for your personal entertainment in the same way you watch TV, listen to music, and play videogames? Or are you using it as the most powerful tool ever created for what it’s worth as a educational tool that is capable of teaching you anything better than any school can?

I’m using it as an educational tool for my own personal development and progress as much as I can, and with it, in one year I have learned more information, and more valuable information than what I learned in 8 years of formal education through middle and highschool combined. 8 years of formal education didn’t amount to 1 year of personal dedication. Do you see where you have such power? It’s in the dedication you have to create something positive for yourself by taking complete control of yourself and the present at all costs no matter what.

Since you’re likely still in school yourself, if take on such a challenge for yourself, you may be tossing around the idea of dropping out, my personal suggestion is don’t. If you can learn this information and apply it effectively in your life, no matter how much your parents, teachers, peers all suck, you can still use the power to maximize the educational potential of your school. You’ll learn the stuff whether you’re in school or not if you’re dedicated, but if you’re in school you can use school as a crow bar to force your way through into the future much easier than it would be on your own. Like I said, it’s a team sport, even if you’re just leaching off of them for the time being.

Besides, if you can show the you’re da man, you can bet your peers, teachers, and parents will be more incline to treat you like da man. But don’t be an arrogant badass ignorant of others. Instead be smart about it, open, flexible, tactical, ethical, and as polite as possible.