Our different reactions to a situation, person, to a negativity, to a positivity, to a moment, to an incident, to an event, as a matter of fact our reaction to anything can bring us with completely different outcomes.To get orange color, we put together red and yellow, but if we put together red and white, we get pink. It’s as simple and as perfect as that. The reaction we give to anything will shape up the outcome we get.
I’d give you the easiest example I can find. You just fail a test. What do you do about it? Of course you are sad and angry and you feel terrible and you want to get better. Now, you just sit and abuse yourself, or the books, the question paper, the teacher, the examiner, practically anybody you can relate to the exam or study. But, you don’t do anything about it, you just sit and feel bad and criticize. What’s going to happen? You’re going to fail the next test and then the next and then the next as well until you change your response. First of all, forgive yourself and let it go, don’t hold on it. Now, what you are to do is, understand where you lacked, what topics you need to emphasize on and figure out where you are to start from. And once you do that, start study, and it is very obvious that once you start to study, if not brilliant or tremendous improvement, you would definitely, without a doubt, be better that where you were when you lacked. See, wasn’t it easy?
What I’ve put to you is a very small thing. But, changing your response is equally effective in life threatening situations as well. Cameron Clapp, an inspirational athlete, is a triple amputee. He lost both his legs and a right arm to a train accident at an age of fifteen, and today he competitively runs and swims. Just try to imagine losing a part as small as a finger. Do you feel comfortable thinking it? I can be damn sure, you don’t. Nobody does. It was his positivity, his response to that horrible train accident, to waking up a morning without three of his limbs that made him known to us today. He has appeared on CNN, CBs, NBC, Discovery Health Channel’s Medical Incredibles, HBO’s Carnivale, The New York Times, USA Today, People, Cosmopolitan, Time magazine and many other Tv shows and newspapers. He has featured in media located at Brazil, Turkey, Germany, Italy, Sweden and the Netherlands. Would he have been at all those places if he would have lost hope, and would have simply spent time sulking around? I don’t think he would have been even alive today, if he would not have given the optimistic response he did.
So the next time you feel angry, just smile, you feel helpless and hopeless, still smile, because you are going to end up where you want to. Just don’t give up hope, keep trying and be optimistic, things change and believe me, they change very fast, even overnight. Don’t let things happen to you, make them happen to your life. HAPPEN TO THINGS!
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
what the BIG TEENS gotta say!
Live with gratitude. –Eric Babbit (cancer survivor and athlete)
Don’t put a price tag on your dreams. –Chris Barrett (Filmmaker, entrepreneur and author)
I believe GOD has blessed each of us with gifts and an ability that he uses to bless those around us. –Olivia Bannett (art prodigy)
Use the resources around you to create awareness that can bring change. –David D. Burstein (18 in 08 campaign)
Turn your fear and doubt into confidence by taking actions and pushing through failures. –Kari Bryon (Artist, thrill seeker and pro mythbuster)
Be prepared to work hard but enjoy the journey. –Ryan Cabrera (singer)
We all have a unique calling in life but it’s our job to discover it. –Julie Marie Carrier (Miss Vergenia USA, speaker and author)
Vision without resources is a hallucination. –Jon Chu (film director, his biggest hit Step Up 2)
When you focus on others, amazing things happen. –Kendall Ciesemier (Philanthropist)
Whatever the challenge, never give up. –Cameron Clapp (athlete and motivational speaker)
Learn from others and accelerate your success. –Jason Ryan Dorsey (Author, speaker and mentor)
Do what you are meant to do. –Amanda Dunbar (art prodigy)
Life is to be lived with gratitude, joy and prayer. –Chelsea Eubank (entrepreneur)
Doing the unrealistic is easier than doing the realistic. –Timothy Ferriss (world record holder, kick boozing champion and bestselling author)
Stay positive and you will accomplish the world. –Dustin Godnick (entrepreneur, author and speaker)
It’s amazing what you can do when you don’t know what you can’t do. –Dr. Farrah Gray (entrepreneur, author and speaker, received an honorary Doctorate from Allen University)
Success doesn’t come through grades, degrees or distinctions. It comes through experiences that expand your belief in what id possible. –Andrew Hewitt (authr and speaker)
When you are young, you’re not crazy to be taking risks and attempting new opportunities. –Joel Kent Holland (Journalist, producer and entrepreneur)
If you can dream it, you can do it. Start now.- Cameron Johnson (author, speaker and entrepreneur)
Love yourself enough to give yourself a chance. –Roy Juarez Jr. (speaker, entrepreneur and humanitarian )
Monday, January 3, 2011
they did!
As I am yet searching and researching, I'll just post a link today, of some of the achievements teens have made.
My heritage blog's Extraordinary teenage achievements
These kids manage to simultaneously impress and depress, as you realize your high school exam grades weren’t quite the pinnacle of youth success you thought they were. Take a look and see what you think.
Tucked away in Oakland Township, Michigan, 17-year-old Thiago Olson had been exhausting his love of physics in a rather unusual way: by creating a nuclear reactor in his basement.
Nicknamed the ‘mad scientist’ by his friends, Thiago spent two years and thousands of hours researching and constructing his device. The machine uses a 40,000 volt charge and deuterium gas to create a small nuclear reaction, which, Thiago says, looks like “a small intense ball of energy.”
And you thought coming back from vacation to find a house party was scary…
Jordan Romero reached the summit of Everest earlier this year, making himself the youngest person to have climbed the mountain. But he’s done a lot more than that. In the four years running up to this achievement, he climbed Kilimanjaro, Australia’s Kosciuszko, the Elbrus in Russia, Aconcagua in South America, Mount McKinley in Alaska, and Puncak Jaya in West Papua. Not bad for someone who’s only just entered his teens.
Jordan’s now just one summit away from having completed the Seven Summits Challenge – reaching the highest peak on every continent in the world. His last and perhaps hardest challenge is the Vinson Massif in Antarctica, which he intends to climb this December.
Most teenage entrepreneurs make their money online, but Fraser Doherty took a more traditional approach to building his empire. After being shown how to make his grandmother’s recipes, the Scottish teen went to work in the family kitchen. By 16, he’d left school to work on the jam empire full time.
"My gran thought it would be fun if she showed me how to make jam. I loved it and went out to see if I could sell the few jars I had made,” said Fraser. "I sold them all to the neighbours down the street and it grew and grew. Pretty soon I was producing a thousand jams of jar a week from my mum and dad's kitchen.”
"It was then I realised I would need to get a bigger premises."
Today, Fraser sells around 500,000 jars a year, and has cornered about 10% of the UK jam market. Presumably Christmas presents to his gran are now going to be much better than a few years ago.
Mohamed Altoumaimi emigrated from Iraq as conflict began there in 2003. He reached Sweden, but despite being in a new environment never failed to keep focus on his studies.
Mohamed was so good at Maths, in fact, that he ended up solving the so-called Bernoulli numbers problem, a formula that had vexed great mathematical minds for over three centuries. His findings were verified and praised by professors at Uppsala University in the country.
Mohamed’s high school now plans to take advantage of the teenager’s skills by having him serve as a mathematics instructor.
“It’s really exciting, now all the teachers have come and congratulated me,” Mohamed told the newspaper. He eventually hopes to become a researcher in Physics or Mathematics.
I hope these inspire you!
-Rupal Bhandari
My heritage blog's Extraordinary teenage achievements
These kids manage to simultaneously impress and depress, as you realize your high school exam grades weren’t quite the pinnacle of youth success you thought they were. Take a look and see what you think.
Tucked away in Oakland Township, Michigan, 17-year-old Thiago Olson had been exhausting his love of physics in a rather unusual way: by creating a nuclear reactor in his basement.
Nicknamed the ‘mad scientist’ by his friends, Thiago spent two years and thousands of hours researching and constructing his device. The machine uses a 40,000 volt charge and deuterium gas to create a small nuclear reaction, which, Thiago says, looks like “a small intense ball of energy.”
And you thought coming back from vacation to find a house party was scary…
Jordan Romero reached the summit of Everest earlier this year, making himself the youngest person to have climbed the mountain. But he’s done a lot more than that. In the four years running up to this achievement, he climbed Kilimanjaro, Australia’s Kosciuszko, the Elbrus in Russia, Aconcagua in South America, Mount McKinley in Alaska, and Puncak Jaya in West Papua. Not bad for someone who’s only just entered his teens.
Jordan’s now just one summit away from having completed the Seven Summits Challenge – reaching the highest peak on every continent in the world. His last and perhaps hardest challenge is the Vinson Massif in Antarctica, which he intends to climb this December.
Most teenage entrepreneurs make their money online, but Fraser Doherty took a more traditional approach to building his empire. After being shown how to make his grandmother’s recipes, the Scottish teen went to work in the family kitchen. By 16, he’d left school to work on the jam empire full time.
"My gran thought it would be fun if she showed me how to make jam. I loved it and went out to see if I could sell the few jars I had made,” said Fraser. "I sold them all to the neighbours down the street and it grew and grew. Pretty soon I was producing a thousand jams of jar a week from my mum and dad's kitchen.”
"It was then I realised I would need to get a bigger premises."
Today, Fraser sells around 500,000 jars a year, and has cornered about 10% of the UK jam market. Presumably Christmas presents to his gran are now going to be much better than a few years ago.
Mohamed Altoumaimi emigrated from Iraq as conflict began there in 2003. He reached Sweden, but despite being in a new environment never failed to keep focus on his studies.
Mohamed was so good at Maths, in fact, that he ended up solving the so-called Bernoulli numbers problem, a formula that had vexed great mathematical minds for over three centuries. His findings were verified and praised by professors at Uppsala University in the country.
Mohamed’s high school now plans to take advantage of the teenager’s skills by having him serve as a mathematics instructor.
“It’s really exciting, now all the teachers have come and congratulated me,” Mohamed told the newspaper. He eventually hopes to become a researcher in Physics or Mathematics.
I hope these inspire you!
-Rupal Bhandari
Taking responsibility!- the first dose
Yes, taking responsibility is associated to teenage. Taking responsibility for everything we do, and for everything that happens to us, is the first step to actually developing as a teenager.
We like to consider ourselves equal to elders and capable enough of handling our lives on our own, don’t we? Then why are we to blame our parent’s, our friends, our classmates or as a matter of fact any XYZ for any of the things that’s happens to us? Taking responsibility is not just associated with the grown-ups, teenage is the age when we take our baby steps towards understanding what being a grown-up means. And what tops this list is – taking responsibility. If we think we are capable enough to choose our friends, our careers, our likes and dislikes, as a matter of fact our whole lives, then why are we not capable enough to take the responsibility of where-so-ever we end at and who-so-ever we end up as.
Taking responsibility doesn’t just mean being responsible enough, it means BEING THE REASON FOR WHAT AND WHO YOU ARE. This one line has a very deep meaning. If we seek to understand it, then what we get to know is we are the reason if we are nobody, if we are somebody or if we are just strolling around and struggling.
This one treasure to most of our happiness is not known or practiced by most of the grown-ups, but if we wish to be a name and not just another random being, then we must understand it.
- Rupal Bhandari
teen 4 teens!
This blog is called 'teen 4 teens!' because I am a sixteen year old girl (a teenager), set out on a mission to inspire the teens, solve their problems, and make them realize what a regular teenager can do and what they are missing, just because they don'y set themselves into actions.They are treated in a not-so-good way, especially in India, and I want to make a difference to this. I want the teenagers to know that what is possible and how small acts of theirs can actually make differences as big as can be imagined. I want to inspire the teenagers (especially of India), and teach them the basics of being a teenager and yet accomplishing. I want them to care about the world, and not just about themselves. So for this, I have set out on search for teenagers who have made a difference to this world, and also to help those who are in need, buried under unsolved problems,situations or uncertainities.
Anyone can approach me, you don't particularly have to be a teenager. Even the grown-ups can come up with me to inspire and lead the teens to a world of their wants and wishes.Teens out there reading this, you are free to write to me anything and anytime, and I'll make sure I get back to you soonest possible and with the best possible solutions, to your problems, unceratinities and any question that you want to ask.
Everyone is very much welcome here to share their views and comment and question freely.
- Rupal Bhandari
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