Role models

Look at that, it's Friday again and time for me to share something new with all of you!!
We often here people talking about sucsses, and that is very common. However when we are talking about sucsses, most of us often forget a very import point. That is who helped us become successful. To many time once we are successful, we are proud of our selves and don't stop to thank everyone who helped you along the way.
I have gone a long ways in my life in the last three years. I couldn't have gotten through it if I wouldn't have had the people help me that were around. If you are going through a hard time, or even if you ste just going through life with no major peeks or valleys, you still need someone around. However, you need the right people around. Undortunatly, we can't just go and ask someone to help us get through a struggle, because there are people around that will see that you are in a tough spot and take advantage of that. Find someone that will be good to you and be helpful and not take advantage of your situation. A good role model will not only be there to help you bit are also living what they are telling you. If they say to be nice and kind, they will show you that they are being nice and kind to other people.
While I was at the FFA convention, I meant several people who were role models, if you are a state or national officer you are automically a role moddel but when you are in that position you get to chose if you're going to be a good or not-so-good model for the younger members. I have met some really awesome people that have made a huge impact on the way that I see life, but I'm. It sure if they know they have done so much for me. Rachel Spencer, Amy Vice, Taylor McNeel and so many others. I would like to thank all of you for everything you did and continue to do for me.
I hope you all look up to someone and have food role models like I do, and if you don't have anyone in mind, focus on you being the role model because chances are people are looking up to you and watching you to see how you handle each situation, show them that you are a person who can be trusted and that you there.

Have a wonderful day, and a wonderful week.

My email is LMYmotivation@16gmail.com

Missed Opportunities

In my last post I told you a little about "Missed Opportunities",  I said that I would have never gone up to someone and just asked them what had happened, and that went with "missed opportunities" but I saved the rest for today.
I heard something a while ago that said "if you are always waiting for the right time, you'll be waiting forever."There can always be an excuse that "keeps" a time from being the right time. If you don't go out, and make it the right time, you are going to miss that opportunity! Use the moment and take control!
While I was at the FFA convention, the first day, there were some people that I thought would be cool to go and talk to them, find out who they were, and what they did in FFA and simple stuff like that, but I didn't go and talk to them. After I saw them the first day, I didn't see them again, and I realized that if I let it, that would happen again, and again, and I would leave convention full of regret for not going up, and talking to the other people there. So, I started going up to people I had no clue who they were, or where they were from, and I would talk to them. I met some really great people there, because I used the moment, and took control, and got to know some people. It might not sound to hard, or it might sound like it is unbelievable how hard simply using the moment is. In reality, it is one of the best things you can do. If you are the person who ceases a moment, others will realize it, and you will potentially get recognized and have dreams come true that you thought would never happen!
You are fully capable of not missing opportunities, but if you do, then you miss out on so much that you didn't even know was available. I'm going to say one thing that should stick out the most, "Just do it" If you feel like you should go and introduce yourself to someone, do it. If you think you should go and do that thing that you really want to do, and it will help you, and the people you are around, do it. As long as it is lawful and moral, DO IT!

Have a good weekend, and next
week

Self Confidence

The title of this post sounds similar to last weeks post, and I guess it is in some ways, but its different in many ways, so I'm not just saying the same thing over, and over again.

I just got back from the Colorado State FFA convention. If you don't know what FFA is, you can email me, but I'm not going to go into it right now. It was my first convention, and I had so much fun. While it was fun, it was also a great learning experience for me. There were 10 state officers that retired, and each of them gave a retiring address, I was able to listen to 8/10 of those speeches, and they were all really good. There were also key note speakers. I listened to five key note speakers and every thing they had to say was wonderful, and really made me think. Although all the speakers had different life lessons to share I found that they all had one thing in common; and that was confidence. The biggest fear is public speaking, so when someone goes up to talk to a big crowd, they have to have a lot of self confidence and security to say what they want to say. If they didn't have the mentality, "I'm okay with who I am, and I don't have to have everyone else's approval to be happy", they could never survive as a public speaker. When you were young, did you feel like you owned the world? Like you were the best you could be and that was all that mattered? Most of you probably said yes, but then when you got in junior high, or high school, you felt like all of the sudden you weren't significant anymore. (I didn't get this on my own. It was part of one of the retiring addresses) You have to find that you are good enough for you, and if you're not good enough for you, you can change to get better, but just sitting there, thinking that you're not as good as you could be, doesn't work.

Confidence is hard to get, but when you have it, everyone notices. I got back from this trip full of confidence. I'm not sure why, but it was such an inspiration to me, that it changed the way I look at a lot of things.
I was sitting in the food court at Sam's club this evening while we were in town, and I saw a girl maybe around the age of 10. I noticed that she had stitches on the underside of her chin. Now, I've busted open my chin more than a few times, and I wanted to know what happened. So, being the outgoing person I am, I went up to her, and introduced myself, and asked. I'm pretty sure that it surprised her, and her family, especially with me the age I am, that I noticed, and went and asked what happend to her. I would have never done that before, I would have just sat and wondered. That goes along with "Missed opportunities" but that is for another day.I told you this story, because I had self confidence, and because of it, I was able to talk to someone that I had no reason to know, and I was able to find the answer to a question that I had, and it was good.

I have someone my email address, but I think I didn't give them one that would work. Just to make sure, it's: LMYmotivation16@gmail.com
I would love to hear from you, if you read my blog and have feedback of something that you would like me to touch on, and give my opinion of, I'll be more than happy to do that.
Have a wonderful weekend, and next week!

Anxiety and Confidence

What happens
right before Christmas? There is excitement, there is trying to make sure you did every thing you were supposed to do for the Holiday. There is trying to get everyone the right present, and trying to make all the food, and whatever your family traditions are. But overall there is anxiety. Now, if you know me well, you know that I like definitions, so let's take a look at what the definition of anxiety is.
Anxiety:1.distress or uneasiness of mind caused by fear of danger or misfortune:2.earnest but tense   desire; eagerness:
Okay, so you are eager for something to happen, but you are still a little scared. You aren't secure in your ability, so you are afraid that you might mess everything up. The trick to getting through anxiety, is not  worry. Now this is easier for some people than others. But it might not be that hard. If you quit being worried about messing something up, or being eager but tense about something, your life will become so much more fun. Contradictory to what some of society tells us, life is supposed to be fun. If you're constantly worried about how this might mess something up, or  being eager about something, you will get worn out so quickly that there will come a point when you have to take a break, and just let it go. 
How does confidence tie into this? Well, the more anxious you are about something, the less confidence you will have in yourself. There is a balance in self-confidence, you want to be confident enough if yourself to know that you are worth something, and there are things you are good at. However, you need to not be so caught up in how good you are at somethings that you don't focus on what you still need to work on. There are many things that can "give" you anxiety, but you have to learn to get around that. Each person has a different trick to get away from anxiety, and boost their confidence, so you'll just have to find what works for you.

This weeks challenge is harder than some of the past. Try to find what helps calm your anxiety, and stay cool. "If plan A doesn't work, just remember there are 26 letters in the alphabet for a reason."

Have a wonderful week!!!

Strength

I have a friend who has just recently had surgery on her knee. If you haven't had a broken something or ever had to have surgery, let me just tell you that it sucks. But after you recover, you are so much better off. Last year my social studies teacher tried to argue with me that there is something that directly effects you, doesn't kill you but it doesn't make you stronger either. He was never sucsefull though. You are always getting stronger. Even if it feels like you are about as low as you can get, just remember that you are getting stronger if you chose to. I saw something once that said something similar to "if you are going through the same things as you were a little while ago, it's Gods way of telling you that you haven't learned the lesson he was trying to teach you." I thought that was really true. Because if you don't learn from one thing you won't be ready for the next thing. Many things build off of each other, so you have to have one thing completed before you can start another. It's the same with seasons in your life. If you don't grow how much you were designed to grow through one season in your life than you are not ready for the next season. That's my thoughts. It seems to make sense to me. Now that's not saying that it's easy getting stronger. "Some of the strongest people have gone through the hardest  trials."
Now a knee surgery is my example for today. I know a lot of people who have lost a lot of the necessities they need to continue they're profession and that was hard on them. So if you're in a hard spot now, just remember that things do get better and you are growing and becoming stronger. You just have to keep your head up and have faith.
Have a wonderful weekend, keep your head up and know you have to learn before you move on!

I chose this song because it's the one that stated my teacher and I talking about being strong

Move forward

Everyone, no matter how old they are, has seen at least a few things that happened to them that they need to let go of and quit being mad about. Whether it is a person who hurt you emotionally talking about you spreading false information about you, or it is someone who hurt you physically, or even if you are mad at yourself for screwing something up. You have to let that go. Now I'm not by any means saying that it doesn't hurt when someone is spreading false information about you or if you get hurt physically, but you can't hold a grudge because that will end up controlling you until you let it go. Staying mad only makes you more miserable. You may think that it makes you feel better to try and get revenge on someone and be as mean to them as they were to you but in reality if their conscience is not bothering them, nothing you do can make them feel bad about what they did. Even if their conscience isn't clean you can't make them change. So what I'm trying to say here is if you have anything that you need to let go of just do yourself a big favor and move forward!!! Let it go!


I know this was kind of a short post, but there isn't much else to say. If you don't let the stuff that is bothering you go, it will control you. That's just the truth.

If you have something that you are mad about, and it is controlling you, there is a trick that really works. You need to write down what you are mad about, and get it all out onto a piece of paper, or you can type, but I like paper better, plus it's more dramatic! After you have everything written down, if you wrote it on paper, you can go and burn it. Throw it in the fire never to be seen again, and it helps. If you typed it, you can grab the file and move it to the trash can, after that, delete it from the trash and it will be gone forever.

Work Hard and NEVER give up

As all of the students and teachers are getting ready to get out of school for the summer, it is really easy to start slacking, and not finish strong but that doesn't work. You have to finish strong! My dad always told me to finish strong, and our family motto was "Yoder's finish strong" Even though we haven't really said anything like that lately, I still try and make that what I live by if you will. It's really tempting to not finish your work and then blame it on something or someone else saying that it is their fault. I know for me, that if I don't get my work do I want to make some excuse saying that I didn't get it done for a reason, good reason that is.

Work hard, and never give up an inch too short because that will come and haunt you for the rest of your life. If you are able to finish something strong, you will leave with a feeling of knowing that you did all that you could/needed, etc. When I was a 6th grader, we ran laps for gym class, well my brother, who is two years older than me, would always sprint the last lap as hard as he could. So, I thought why not, by the end of the year, four out of the six of us sprinted that last lap, and we were the ones who wanted to work hard and succeeded. That always gave me the feeling of finishing strong, because, sure the laps weren't hard, they were our warm up, but finishing them as strong as we could didn't necessarily make me feel better at the time, but not even halfway through, I knew that it was helping me get in the correct mindset for what we would be doing. Now, every time we run laps in the gym, I sprint the last one, and the other kids who are around started doing the same. I know that even if they're not sure why we always sprint the last lap, they'll figure it out, and we have my older brother to thank for that!
Next, NEVER give up! I know all of you have heard that so many times that you can't count, but please never ever stop trying. You may hit bumps in the road which force you to change the way you go about doing whatever it is that you are doing, but that doesn't mean you can stop, it just means you have to change a few things. As the picture above states  "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when the gave up." Thomas A. Edison What does that mean? Well, if you give up, you are stopping all of the chances of you finishing. If you give up, and then look back in 10 or 15 years, and see that if you would have only kept going you were so close to finishing, you're not going to be happy with yourself. so save yourself from that grief. Don't give up, and you won't see that you were so close, but never finished. That is its ties in with finishing strong!
So, what's the challenge for the week?
Finish everything you start and finish it better than you started.
Good luck, and have a wonderful week!