Tag: personal development

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.

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.

Visualize Your Goals Before They Happen

Visualize Your Goals Before They Happen

Visualization. What is it? One of the keys to success is to visualize your goals before they happen. Seeing the action step that you will be taking in your mind before you do it. It’s a concept that I learned from Tony Robbins and I wanted to teach it to all of you. Hope you all enjoy this week’s video!

Here are some key concepts to visualize your goals before they happen:

  1. Always visualize your goals in present tense as if they had already happened.
  2. Use powerful “I am” statements such as “I am at my perfect weight”.
  3. Visualize your goals at least twice a day once when you wake up and once before you go to bed.