"You can't let fear keep you from your dreams, we can get through this!" - Chelsea Thomas

The above statement really got me thinking... Why do humans doubt what they know they can do. I mean you could be getting an opportunity that not many others have and that you have been striving for all your life, but you still question yourself, "What if I go and fail?", "What if I hate it there?" These are the questions that keep amazing people from accomplishing amazing things. If they would just follow their hearts and not worry about what could happen and just go with the flow, we could accomplish so much more!
I have a few examples of this.

1. As most of you know I have been really wanting to go to Franciscan University in Steubenville Ohio. Well, money is really the only thing that is keeping me there and my family and I are doing everything we can to get enough money to send me there. Well I keep thinking about all of the sacrifices my family is making to try and send me there and it really makes me question my decision. "What if I get there and fail?" or "What if I hate Ohio?" and it is making me second guess my dreams in order to please others, and that is not the kind of person I am. I mean I feel bad that my parents have to give stuff up for me to accomplish my dreams, but they can really see that this is what I want to do and they are willing to do that for me and I think it is awesome.
2. When we were getting ready to go on our Disneyland trip for choir and I still owed over $300 two weeks before the trip. "I'm not going to get the money." Is the only thought that was going through my mind. And right when I was about to give up, people, out of the kindness of their hearts, donated the money to me and it all worked out in the end.
I'm going to venture off that topic for a little while. But, don't you love when your friends say these profound statements? As soon as Chelsea said this I told her that I was putting it as my facebook status, I didn't mention that it would be the basis for my blog. I think that these statements can inspire people to look at not only themselves but others in a whole new way.
Thank you all for reading my blog. I hope that I actually say something meaningful to at least one of you!

I doubt it...

Do you ever have those moments where you just don't believe what you hear? Or you just don't agree with something that you are told is the truth. I think that is a pretty common thing. Doubt is very powerful in my opinion. If you doubt what you know to be the truth, it can have a negative effect on you.

Let's try to look at things a little differently. Can doubt make you stronger? I know that when I hear the word doubt, negativity flows into my thoughts almost instantly. But after pondering it for a little while, I realized that doubting can turn out positive.

I'm sure that if you have had a bad experience like a death or other tragic experience in your life it has caused you to question, "Why would this happen to me?" That is the perfect example of doubt. Well I have learned from experience that when you doubt, it causes you to think. When you start to think about something that interests you, you begin to research it. When you research it you may find out that if you look at it in a different way it makes more sense and you understand it better.

I think it kind of goes hand it hand with optimism. If you have a positive outlook on doubt, it can have a positive outcome and if you have a negative outlook, it can have a negative outcome.

So, I'll leave you with this, next time you are doubting something, just think of how it can make you a better, stronger, more likable person rather than letting the negative thoughts over power you.

How far east can you go before you're heading west?

Do you ever feel like your life is bipolar? I often find myself thinking, "Wow, everything was great, what happened?" It boggles my mind how things can be going great one moment then completely horrible the next. The world is funny that way.
I have experiences like this all the time. For example, I could wake up and be having the worst day at home, my parents are yelling at me, I don't have any socks, or I drop my toothbrush in the toilet. Then when I get to school it is like none of that ever happened. I get to school and I am the same "happy guy" that I always am.
Or it could be completely opposite. My day could start off in the most amazing way, such as finding $20 in my pocket, ect. But then when I get to school I discover I failed the Government test that I thought I did so well on.
I have learned through these trials that I have faced, that you just gotta go with the flow. I have learned that whatever happens happens and I have no control over how things will turn out because no matter what I do they are always going to turn out the same way.
So here is my advice for the day... Go with the flow, even if you really want things to go a certain way. Just remember that life is what you make it, you can focus on the good or the bad.