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Take Control of Your Life

Do you know why a lot of people don’t like roller coasters, are afraid to ride roller coasters? It’s because of the lack of control. When you ride a rollercoaster, the control is completely out of your hands and for some it can get a little bit scary. The good thing is life is not like a rollercoaster, sometimes may feel like a rollercoaster, but it’s not like a rollercoaster in terms that we have control over the outcome in our life.

And I don’t mean to sound a little bit. You know, but the life we are living right now, we created it, we created the situation that we’re currently in right now, but the great thing is unlike a rollercoaster. We have control. We have control over the outcome of our lives and we have control where we’re going to go him from here on out.

So I like to compare this to acting and it’s obviously not a bad way is to go on as many auditions as you possibly can, craft your ability and continue to work to get better and better and better. But there are other ways nowadays that we can get into the acting industry.

And some have gotten into industries that otherwise would not have given them a chance by, you know, like uploading videos on YouTube or uploading a video on Instagram and others, Tiktok, and that’s how they get a little bit of exposure.

There’s this movie called “The Room”. Some of you may have heard of it now “The Room” has kind of became a cult classic and the writer and the director and I think the producer as well of “The Room”, Tommy Wiseau, kept on going on auditions and they kept on rejecting him. So one day, he went to his friend, Greg and said, “You know what? I’m getting rejected. I’m tired of getting rejected. I’m going to just make my own movie. I’m going to write it. And I’m a director. I’m going to produce it.” And that’s what he did.

Now, here’s the deal. “The Room” out and end up being considered one of the worst movies of all time, but it had a cult classic in terms of people were just so fascinated and, you know, Tommy Wiseau himself and the other actors and the script and the way the movie is made, that it became a movie that even if it’s bad, people just can’t help but not watch. It’s kind of fascinating. And now they made a movie out of it called The Disaster Artist. And he was in that movie. He made a short cameo in that movie. And you could say what you want about it, but I respect him for taking action and for just doing something to get him to that industry that was rejecting him so much.

So the point in me sharing that story is that the great thing is, in our lives we have control, we have control over what we do, how we react, we have control over the results we get, how much work that we’re putting into, the skills that we learn, and decide to learn and every skill is essentially learnable if we put enough time and effort into it and from here on out, you can change your life, and once you realize that you have 100 percent control of your life, nothing can stop you. Nothing can stop you from achieving your dreams and goals.

The main thing point is that it’s your life and it’s time for us to take control of our lives. And that’s what I’m going to start doing that because it’s always I’ve always known about this, but it hasn’t really set in for me until just recently.

You also want to expand your mindset by educating yourself and whatever field that you want to educate yourself before. Taking the time to read a blog, time to expand your skills and in turn that people will see you as more valuable to the marketplace or whatever that you want to become.

Short about me: My name is Brent Hosaka and I am a Health, Wellness, and Lifestyle Coach from Hawaii. if you want to read my full story you can click here.

Karate Kid is one of my favorite movies and it also happens to be a movie with so many great life lessons in it. The movie is kind of feels like a Personal Development movie so today I wanted to talk about some of the lessons that I have learned in Karate Kid.

  1. Everyone can use a good mentor. Mr. Miyagi famously said There is no such thing as bad student only bad teacher. And that is true, teacher say, student do. Mr. Miyagi was an example of great teacher. Even when Daniel started to get distracted or frustrated Mr. Miyagi was able to get him focused back again. We can all use a mentor and teacher who will helps us with that in our lives.
  2. Either you do or you don’t. There was another great quote by Mr. Miyagi where he said Walk left side, safe. Walk right side, safe. Walk middle, sooner or later, [makes squish gesture] get squish just like grape. Here, karate, same thing. Either you karate do “yes”, or karate do “no”. You karate do “guess so”, [makes squish gesture] just like grape.” I see this quote as being about commitment, Mr. Miyagi wants to know if Daniel is committed about learning Karate because if he isn’t this isn’t going to work. Same thing for everything we do in our lives. We need to committed to learn something or do something or its not going to work.
  3. Take it one step at a time. At the scene of the beach, Daniel sees Mr. Miyagi doing the crane so he asks him if he could teach it to him, he tells him he isn’t ready and says “First learn stand, then learn fly” Basically what this means is take it one step at a time. Don’t attempt anything you are not quite ready for. Kind of like if you were playing a video game and you beat level 1 and decided to skip to the final level, would you succeed, probably not. Same thing with life, take everything one step at a time.
  4. Don’t fear fear. This one is actually from the 3rd one but I think it’s a great lesson. In the final fight, Daniel is hurting a lot and goes crying to Mr. Miyagi that he can’t do it and wants to quit. Miyagi tells him “Its ok to lose to opponent but must not lose to fear” In others words its ok to fail or lose but its not ok to fail just because you were afraid to do it. Because if you try and do your best, at least you’ll know and have no regrets.

How To Overcome Fear

How To Overcome Fear

So a couple nights ago I watched the new Goosebumps movie, I had to watch it especially since I was a big fan of the books and TV show as a kid. Not only did I find the movie quite enjoyable it also gave me an idea for the video this week. This week’s video will be about how to overcome fear. It’s kind of funny really, alot of people like to be scared that’s why horror movies make a lot of money but don’t like to do things they are uncomfortable with or face their fears. Of course technically Horror movies are all make believe, fantasy, and in the end it is all the imagination of the writer, director, and the rest of the crew. And that is the same for most of the “Fear” in our lives or False Evidence Appearing Real. So in the end Fear is all in your mind, and that’s why alot of successful people aren’t the smartest people, they are just people who don’t overthink the situation. So you can know all this stuff about fear and know its all in the mind and still have trouble overcoming it, so that’s why I compiled a list of things that I do to overcome fear

1. Think about what you are afraid to do and think about what is the worst that could happen. Write it down if you have to. Whether its talking to new people, getting new customers, asking someone out on a date, whats the worst that could happen? You could get rejected, yup. You could embarrass yourself but guess what you are still alive, amd well and at least you did  your best and tomorrow is another day

2. Overcoming your fear with a friend or a partner. Now of course there are some fears that can’t overcome with a friend or a partner but there are definitely some that you can and believe me it is a lot easier when you have someone to do this with. I’ve overcame some fears with friends and I will continue to do so.

3. Just do it! It’s like a band aid right, you can either rip off very slowly which will probably  be pretty painful or you can rip off and get it over real quick. And once you do it, you’ll realize hey it wasn’t that bad but the longer you wait, the worse it’s going to be. And the quicker you do it, you less your mind has time to think about the situation its in.

Choosing Who You Want To Be

Choosing Who You Want To Be

I just saw the new Jumanji movie and I gotta say it was really really good. It also had a surprising lesson that I thought was perfect for the new year. Only thing is, I hope it is not a spoiler, well just in case I’m going to give a minor spoiler warning. Choosing who you want to be is a great step in life.

So as you may know in the movie Jumanji the board game turns into a video game and the players that play the game get sucked into the video game world and become the avatars they choose. The nerdy kid becomes The Rock, the shy girl becomes Karen Gillian, the big jock becomes Kevin Hart, and the attractive instagram teenage girl becomes Jack Black. Since this movie takes place in a video game, I’m going to focus on one lesson that I got out of it.

You see in all video games we get to choose our character and most of the time the character is buff or very attractive, very fit characters and a cliché in video games is that the main character is normally the best at something. And it is easy to be brave when the worst that could is a game over screen but yes in real life, we do have just one life but that’s why we have to make it the best life possible. And yes in video games you get to choose your character but in real life we get to choose our characters as well. You want to be buff or be fit, find someone who is at your goals and ask them how they did it and take good notes and repeat their plan, you might find other things that work better for you along the way but it’s a good start. You want to be brave, face your fears.

I just put out a video a couple days ago where a woman for 100 straight days faced her fears. There are maybe some things that we don’t have control over like our race, our height but we have complete control over who we decide to become right now. Every single day we are faced with choices, so pick your character, who do you want to be? The choice is yours.

Late Bloomers

Late Bloomers

A lot of people in their 30s or 40s and think that they still can’t be and do what they always wanted to do but that is not always true, in most careers it is not. So I’m going to list some very successful people who found their calling late in life, late bloomers. As George Elliot once said it is never too late to become who you might have been.

1. Gabe Newell, If you are a gamer, you probably know who he is but if you are not Gabe Newell is one of the founders of Valve at the age of 34 and would later on create the video game Half-Life and at the age of 41 he and his team would create a software called Steam which would go onto change PC gaming forever.

2. Morgan Freeman, Morgan Freeman didn’t appear in a movie until 1971 when he was 34 and didn’t have a big role until 1989 when he appeared in the movie Driving Miss Daisy when he was 52

3. Stan Lee, Stan Lee is mostly known for his work at Marvel but before he used to write stories in a variety of genres. In his late 30’s, he was thinking of finding a new career but his boss assigned him to create a new superhero team and he then create The Fantastic Four. Of course as the rest is history as he would go on to create X-Men, The Hulk, and Spiderman.

4. Colonel Sanders, Colonel Sanders of course mostly known for the very popular KFC fast food chain didn’t become a professional chef until he was 40 and it wasn’t until 62 when he started KFC. He then sold KFC for 2 million dollars in 1964 when he was 74.

5. Grandma Moses, Here is a crazy one! Grandma Moses who is known for these incredible paintings didn’t even start painting until she was in her 70s. Now why she started painting all of a sudden, I have no idea but man what an inspiration!

What We Can Learn From Dogs

What We Can Learn From Dogs

Dogs, I am a huge dog lover!! I don’t love them just because they are so gosh darn adorable, I mean they are adorable. But I love how they make me feel when I when I see them and play them and I also feel they can teach us a lot of things about life. So I’m going to talk about what we can learn from dogs

1. Live in the now. If you notice, dogs tend to not hold onto what happened
yesterday or what may happen in the future. They live in the moment.

2. Keep trying until you succeed. If you notice, if a dog wants something or
they want to do something, they keep on trying until they succeed. No matter how much times they fail. They eventually find a way. And you find great examples of this on youtube.

3. Forgive. Dogs tend to not hold onto grudges for too long. They forgive,
forget, and move on fairly quickly

4. Love Unconditionaly. Dogs love their family more than they love themselvesThey get so excited, wag their tail, and get so excited when they see you.

Compliment Challenge

Compliment Challenge

Compliments, what are they good for? Absolutely everything! Today, I wanted to talk about something that I feel is important. Why? Well doesn’t it feel good when you receive a compliment? So why not send your friends and the people you like a random compliment. Your teacher or mentor a random compliment to let them know how much they mean to you, how grateful you are for them, we may think they know but the unfortunate truth is that they don’t know and most people honestly don’t tell or thank them for what they’ve done for them. And even if you did tell them in the past, it’s always good to be reminded.

Complimenting people or just leaving a positive comment to people can make someone’s day and that is so worth it. So I want to challenge all of you to make a positive compliment to one person every single day whether it’s a family member, friend, or a cool person on Facebook. Compliment someone, make their day, make them feel special because you never know, maybe nobody has ever complimented them in years or maybe even ever. There is a lot of crazy challenges out there so how about we start one of our own, the complimenting people challenge.

Moana “How Far I’ll Go” Meaning

Moana “How Far I’ll Go” Meaning

Moana is one of my favorite animated movies in the last few years and had one of the best soundtracks I’ve heard since the Lion King. A while back I was watching it and then came on the main song, “How far I’ll go” sung by Hawaii’s own Auliʻi Cravalho.

Now if you haven’t seen Moana, Moana, her family, and her people were always stuck on this Island and she never understood why and always adventured out to the Ocean ever since she was a baby. Now she is an adult when she sings this song.

The very first lines says “I’ve been staring at the edge of the water Long as I can remember, never really knowing why I wish I could be the perfect daughter But I come back to the water, no matter how hard I try”

As you can see or hear here that the sea is always calling to her, no matter what she does, she always ends up at the sea and she is questioning why is that even though she forbidden from her father.

Now my personal favorite part comes in verse 2 where she says “I know everybody on this island seems so happy, on this island Everything is by design I know everybody on this island has a role, on this island So maybe I can roll with mine”

Right here she is questioning the reality around her and is fighting on whether or not she should listen to her gut or listen to her dad. And this line really reminds me of everyday society. So many people are just running through the motions and doing what they are told instead of making a choice and decision to do what is right for them.

Now the last line I want to talk about is when she says “I can lead with pride, I can make us strong I’ll be satisfied if I play along But the voice inside sings a different song What is wrong with me?”

She at first thinks she’ll be ok if she stays on the Island and takes care of her people but at the same time she doesn’t know if she’ll be completely happy and be true leader if she ignores what she truly is.

I think a lot of people can relate to this song, many people are told that they need to do this or need to do that and many people listen to the ones on the outside and ignore their inner voice and they end up not happy and don’t fulfill their potential. What is that for you? And yes it can be scary, not listening to the people you love and especially if its your parents, grandparents, siblings, or maybe spouse is scary and take guts. But if you don’t do it now, you are going to look back your life with regret and nothing and I mean nothing is scarier and more terrifying than that.

Deadpool Lesson?

Deadpool Lesson?

With Deadpool 2 just coming out, I thought I would talk about a valuable lesson behind the first one. For 11 years, Deadpool actor, Ryan Reynolds wanted to create a Deadpool movie but Fox declined him because they were sure a Marvel movie would succeed with a R rating. But he didn’t give up and for 11 years and 47 rejections later, he finally got the approval to green light the project. As we they say, the rest is history and I wanted to take a look into it.