We must become the people we want our children to be.
People have a lot of control over their ability to rise to the occasion and to show their best or their aspirational selves.
People love seeing people trying to change stuff.
Act like the person you conceive yourself to be.
Pick your role models wisely, find out what they did and do it.
If you are not the best, then pretend you are
Then I fall asleep with a stupid feeling of wishing to be different from what I am or from what I want to be; perhaps to behave differently from the way I want to behave or do behave.
I used to carry my dad's empty guitar case around the neighborhood because I wanted people to think I played the guitar. I would put flintstones vitamins in it in case I got tired, so I could pop some and keep walking.
People live by example. I can't tell you, "You can be anything," if I shot my own dreams down or was too afraid to go after them.
I'll never say it's good enough. It's a pressure I put on myself.
Those who are well assured of their own standing are least apt to trespass on that of others, whereas nothing is so offensive as the aspirings of vulgarity which thinks to elevate itself by humiliating its neighbor.
What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things.
A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is to make the team, and he achieves it, he immediately resets the goal to: I want to be a starter.
As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behavior. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behavior. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works.
Unless your goal is against the laws of God or society, you can achieve it.
The reason adults should look as though they are having fun, is to give kids a reason to want to grow up.
