Mark Twain

"Always do right"
~Mark Twain

Mark Twain is right, no matter how old you are or what the situation is it is always better to do the right thing. Doing the right thing will not only get you far in the future but it will also make you a better person. When you do the right thing and avoid the wrong even if it means losing friends, its the best because that means those are not real friends and you are taking the responsibility and standing alone. In my experience I did the wrong and I faced the consequences an it was not pleasant. If I had chosen the right and not done what I did I would save myself all the troubles. Doing the right thing is beneficial but it is a must we all should do because You are helping another person and sometimes you don't think of it you just do it. Like for example a lady drops her wallet I would get it and give it to her and not only did I do the right thing but I helped her. You never know what she needed it for but I returned it not only helped but most likely made her feel good that people are nice. Sometimes we run into bad people and we start to think everyone is bad but if someone helps you they did the right and helped you see people differently.

                           

thanksgiving break

For my thanksgiving day me and my family went to a friend's house and ate food there with them. It was fun but when I got home I was so tired I fell asleep as soon as I hit my pillow.The homework I did in the week I had off was my book report on the book Fahrenheit 451 which is a very interesting book. Before Thanksgiving I was helping my sister cook the deserts she wanted to have at home and take to our friend's house. We had some technical difficulties because we had to flip a jello cake to another pan because the one it was on had a hole so it was spilling. After Thanksgiving we had a potluck n church with the youth, I took mac and cheese with bacon but my sister and her boyfriend made because I had to help my little sister with her vacation homework. It was a busy week for me because I had to take pictures in church about the thanksgiving dinner we had on Tuesday and our Pastor's birthday but it was fun. Me and and my family watched a lot of movies, the ones that I remember we watched are Elf, Pitch Perfect 2 and Bride Wars, and a lot of Christmas movies. I was also able to catch up on the show I stopped watching for 3 months. Its called The 100 and I honestly stopped watching it because Octavia which is one of the characters was very annoying but now that I'm in season 2 she is actually very brave and not as annoying. I also saw the movie The Duff with my older sister which is one of my favorite movies.
     

Thomas S. Monson

"Develop the attitude of gratitude"
Thomas S. Monson

I agree with this quote because if you are grateful and have and attitude of gratitude, you will cherish everything and be thankful for everything you have. And this is important because I feel like the more thankful you are the better your attitude is because you are not mean, selfish, and spoiled. Instead you are a person who is sweet and compassionate and in my opinion I would rather hang out with someone like this. I have a friend who she is the sweetest person I know. whenever I talk to her about my problems she always listens and its amazing how she has problems as well but she looks at thing in a positive way, and she always says I'm thankful this happened because it happened for a reason. My mom says that even in the worst of situation to have attitude of gratitude because although you may not know why it happened in the long run it will somehow help you and shape you to be a better person. So, yes the best attitude anyone can develop is gratitude because somehow you just learn to be more compassionate, I know this because I was a mean child but ever since my mom told me this and I found this friend I saw that gratitude is an attitude that may be hard to develop but when you do, you change into someone. A sweeter person.

     

Lou Holtz

"1. Can people trust me to do whats right?
2. Am I committed to doing my very best?
3.Do I treat people the way I want to be treated?
If the answers to these questions are YES, there is no way you can fail."
~Lou Holtz

I like this quote because the three questions will define your place in this world. If you have a NO on one of these you won't be at the best place. If you want to succeed in life they all have to be YES. Right now I know what I have done, I haven't treated a person the way I want to be treated. I treated them pretty bad and I regret it even if others don't believe me and because of that question that is no I feel like I am the biggest failure and it makes me angry. It makes me even angrier because it seems like if I can't control any of my emotions and I don't understand why it happens. It frustrates me really bad. What I am trying to say is that when you don't treat a person right which is one of these questions you won't succeed, like me I can't succeed at being calm right now and its not good because I have and IDP tomorrow so I need to calm down and not live with this stress. Just following these question and answering with YES will save you a lot of time from frustration and anger. These questions ask you if you are a good person and the answers you have for them define who you really are.
      

President John F. Kennedy

"Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. Intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong."

~President John F. Kennedy

This quote tells me that although being fit and working out is a role to having a healthy body, it is not the only one. We need to be healthy in all areas like spiritually, mentally, and emotionally. If a person is not healthy in neither one of these areas, all of them will become unhealthy. One are keeps the other one healthy like a chain, and if one of those chains are broken, the entire chain will fall apart. And when you are not healthy in any of these you intelligence and capacity will fail even if you are healthy in all areas but one. For example if you have problems at school/home you won't be mentally and emotionally healthy and that will cause you to either become sleepless or not to eat which leads to headaches, and if you have to present for example an IDP with you pretty much feeling dead then you will not peak. I learned from this quote that to keep healthy you must exercise and if people are stressing you out found a healthy way to let your frustration out.

                      

Joseph B. Wirthlin

"Kindness is the essence of greatness."
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
 I agree with Joseph because if you want to be great at a certain thing you must be kind. You can't be great without kindness because 1) People will see as a cocky person and 2) Without kindness you won't get very far. Others who have made it to great lengths have had someone be kind to them and motivate them so they were taught the same, to be kind. In my older sister's case her kindness got her a great job where her great mind fits perfectly. My mom has a really close family friend that we see as an uncle and his daughter ran away more than once and my older sister would go find her and chase her till she caught her and returned her to their parents. When she was applying for jobs she couldn't find the right one for her so This family friend talked to one of his known people and asked if she had job openings. my sister then went for an interview and got a job and its a good paying job. Her kindness helped someone and this person felt it in his heart to repay her by helping her get a job. So this showed me that kindness will get you far.

I'm sick