Living in the Past

So just after I posted about the account trouble, I noticed I had emailed the blogs to myself. So here is the next part.

Living in the Past

While many people live in tomorrow, many people live in yesterday. These people are people of self criticism and regret. These people cannot live today because they are stuck and lost in yesterday. They reflect too much on yesterday and what they have done; what they should have done.

Yesterday is gone. Yesterday can never be changed. It is completely useless to worry about what you have done and what you haven’t done; wishing you could change how you chose to do things. While living in yesterday, we cannot experience today. We cannot continue to live our lives because we are being held down by yesterday. We are being tied to yesterday. Today becomes nothing and we achieve nothing. Living in yesterday is like living in tomorrow. You will never achieve anything.

Yesterday people need to live a bit more in tomorrow. Past is past, and all we can do about it is learn from it. While worrying about what you should or shouldn’t have done, change that into thinking of what you will or won’t do in the future. If you are regretting saying something stupid, remember to think more before you talk. If you wish you would have done something, do it now. If an opportunity has walked out the door, go chase it; fight for it. If you have done something bad, go make things right.

Yesterday is out of reach. What’s done is done. We cannot change it. All we can do is learn for the future and try to fix things today. Fretting yesterday and wishing you can change it will keep you stuck. Today you will feel miserable. You will miss out on today until it becomes yesterday, then you will be fretting about another yesterday. It is another vicious cycle.

Technical Issues

So I had typed up 3 blogs at school and saved them, and then my account stopped working. So I am waiting til the server at school can be fixed. Hopefully those blogs weren't deleted. So I will post them when I can have access to them. TTYL!

Living in the Future

Now that I’ve wrote about the importance of planning ahead and how to do it, I think I need to mention about living in the wrong time.

Tomorrow does not exist without today. Tomorrow can never happen until we have finished today. So what will happen if we live in tomorrow? Do we truly exist? Are we truly living? Will we ever get anywhere? Some people are what I call “tomorrow people.” They are people who always decide to do important things later on. They are people that always say “I’ll do it tomorrow” or “I’ll start next week.” When that time has passed, has it been done? Have you found the promised time inconvenient and you put it off until the next day or week?

Once you tell yourself that you will do something later, you are getting in the mode of “later, later, later.” Once you put something off, it increases the chance that you will always put it off and it will never get done. Why not do it now? If you do it now it will be done, and you won’t have to worry about whether or not you will have time to do it when you had promised yourself. And then you leave yourself with one less worry, as well as training yourself to stop putting things off til later every time the time comes that you stated you would do it.

Other than never getting anything done by putting things off, “tomorrow people” don’t really live. People fantasize and plan for a fantasy future, while not enjoying and making today their fantasy.

I love today. Today is where I exist and live. Today is the only time that exists. Today is the only real time. Yesterday is only a memory. Yesterday cannot be changed. Tomorrow is yet to come. Tomorrow only exists with what we have done today. If we live in tomorrow, tomorrow may never happen. Because tomorrow cannot happen without today, and nothing can happen tomorrow if it hasn’t been started today. Make today your fantasy. Make today your goal. Build your life today. Make today the best you can. Don’t worry about tomorrow until it comes.

Successful Future (questions you need to ask yourself)

I have a few gamer friends that think they are going to be a game designer for a living. No amount of convincing will change their mind. These kids have done no research about this career. They have not taken any computer courses in high school. And they have no plan as to where they will learn to design games. They have no clue what they are getting into. First off, they think it is a job of all fun and games. Designing a game is hard work. It has to be complicated enough that people will have a challenge playing it. You have to work out all the kinks and glitches. This can take years. You have your boss on your case 24/7 about what is happening, how perfect things are, being on schedule, making a perfect game. A very small percent of game designers actually get their games on the shelves. And this is all if you are a computer expert. You can't just be educated. You have to be extremely talented. Most people get into the industry and spend hours testing games to find every single kink and glitch. Yeah, playing for hours sounds like fun right? Trust me, after hours a day, every day, beating the game hundreds of times, it gets tiring. It can become murderously boring. Trying to get into this career without any research, planning, education, or talent is like a child trying to go gold panning in the creek down the road.

This is just an example of how hard being unprepared can be. With something like the choice of a career being made, you need to know exactly how things work, what your five year plan is, and exactly how you will get from here to there.

So, with that, I am posting questions you need to ask yourself if you want to be successful in what you want to do. This doesn't even have to apply to a career.

1. What is it you want to do?

2. EXACTLY what do you need to do to get there?

3. Do you have the skills and knowledge to do it? If not, then how and where can you obtain the skills and knowledge?

4. Have you been obtaining the right skills and knowledge to get where you want to go? Is anything missing?

5. Have you researched exact details of what you want to do?

6. Have you considered how you can handle hard times on your journey? Will you enjoy the results of the choice you've made?

7. Do you have a 5 year plan? a 10 year plan? or however long the journey or a stage in the journey will take?

8. Do you have the means to carry out your plan?

9. Are there any pre steps you need to take care of first?

10. Are you capable of what you have chosen?

11. Are you sure you know exactly what your choice involves through and after the journey? Do you need to do more research and contemplating?

12. ARE YOU SURE THIS IS WHAT YOU WANT TO DO?

(and sorry for the long period without posts. i had some internet problems)