Way to Be

9 ways to be Happy and Make Something of your Life

Gordon B. Hinckley

1.Be Grateful

“Happiness isn’t about getting what you want all the time. It’s about loving what you have and being grateful for it.”

Reflection: if I were not to be grateful for what I have I would not like myself because I am grateful for lots of things my mom and my siblings. I’m grateful for what my mom has given me and all that she has sacrificed for me and my siblings. Being grateful is something that everyone should do because if you not then what are you your just a greedy person make peoples life miserable. Having everything you want is being stingy and not grateful for what already has been given to you. I believe that people that always want to have everything at the cost of every ones expense is not right. I always want something but then again I think do I need I because I see I have something similar. The only time I can get something new is when it doesn’t work and can’t be fixed. So then I now that I have to be grateful for what I have and I am.

2. Be Smart

Reflection: what this means is that to be smart you have to work hard, or in other words you have to push yourself to do what you want but you have to do it in a smart way. Anyone can be smart you just have to believe that you can and you will get there, just don’t lit others tell you otherwise. If you do lit people do that than their probably going to bringing you down and most likely they do that because someone did the same to them. I know that if I am working hard I can accomplish what I put my mind to it. If I let someone tries to bring me down I won’t let them because I believe that if they say I can’t do something I would certainly like to prove them wrong and do exactly what they said I can’t do, if I put my mind to it and I work hard I will get their I just have to think smart and see how I will get there. “Before you can work hard you must to work smart.” By doing exactly that I will be able to do anything I just have to be smart about it. But technically it also means to think clearly about what you are going to do and to do that you have to work hard.

3. Be Involved in Good works

Reflection: being involved in good works is a way of saying sowing kindness to others may give them confidence to get up and do something it can make their day. Being involved in community work is a way to show kindness to others and it can easily make their day better than it was a day ago. To do good works you don’t need to be recognized for your acts but let people see that what you are doing for others is the right thing to do. You don’t need recognition to do a good deed because by helping them out then they can maybe see themselves maybe doing something for other one day as you helped them. “Small acts of kindness go a long way. Your good works could change someone’s day.” Where I can use this is in the future but also in the present day as I wish to help others in need but it doesn’t mean people that can’t help themselves it means people that need help getting back up from where they fell.

4. Be Clean

Reflection: Being clean can mean many things not only cleaning yourself and your room. But having a clean mind, keeping yourself clean of anything bad that you could do or say. “Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.” Keeping your mind clean and expand your creativity and working attitudes. Always keeping your mind clean and also prevent you from trying drugs that are band for you. Or going out for a wild party when you know you could be doing something better than drugs and alcohol. So being clean doesn’t mean just having good hygiene but saying away from bad people and thinking clearly that can also mean keeping clean. Doing bad things can make you end up in bad places and I would certainly wouldn’t want to end up in those bad places. If I keep my mind clean I can stay away from bad influences that do those things.


                                                     5. Be True

Reflection: Being true mean to be true to someone and yourself. Being true to your self is not hiding who you are. Be who you are meant to be and not who others want you to be. For example before I always wanted to blend in with the other kids in school I dint want them to now I was different but then the time past and I just could not take it any more I was trying too hard to be someone I wasn’t. I finally I came to understand that it was ok to be different and I was true to myself and to other about who I really was. This part of my past I will never forget I will always remember and I will look to that moment and see how far I came by being true to myself and to others. I believe that being true to yourself will give you confidence to do great things. “Always be true to yourself and others, be yourself because everyone else is already taken.”

6. Be Positive

Reflection: Being positive boosts your self-esteem. Also pushes you to do great things further in your life. Being positive is something people do all the time in their everyday life. Also you have to be positive about your work and your dreams and if for one second you are not positive you will never accomplish those dreams. For example if I were to be positive about my dreams to be an OB/GYN for one second I will never go to the university that I want to go to. I would not be an OB/GYN or at least not the one I was hoping to be if I were to have gone to the University of San Francisco. “No negative thoughts allowed. Think positive, be positive and positive things will happen.” Being positive is having those epic moments happen and great memories not to be ever forgotten. Also what you think negative, negative things will happen. What you think is going to become of you will become true. So think positive and you will have a positive life. The way i will apply this attribute to my life is to think positive about my dreams an they will come true soon enough.

7. Be Humble

Reflection: being humble means having or showing a modest or low estimate of one's own importance. But humble is not the same thing as being wise. When you are being humble you recognize your flaws and being wise is learning from your mistakes. Also being humble means to work hard for what you want in life and if you work hard for the things you want you will accomplish your dreams. Being humble is not sitting around being lazy it is going for want you want and taking a chance. “Stay humble, work hard. Lazy people get nowhere in life, remember that.” The way I would apply being humble to my daily life is by working hard in school so that in the future I will be successful take chances and never give up on my dreams. 

8. Be Still

Reflection: What this means is not to stand or sit on something and not move. It means to stay still and think about your future, your life, your accomplishments, and dreams. For example if I were about to do something that can change my life in a second I would be still for a moment and think about the things that would happen if I were to do something in that instant. I would think about all the negative and positive effects that would happen. “Be still and know that I am god.” What this quote means to me is that you are god you control your destiny your future your life. This also means that you have the chose to do what you want to do and not let anyone push you around. You decide what you want and what the best way to get what I want. A way I will use this attribute is by thinking about the negative effects that I would cause for myself if I were to do something bad or the positive things that would come my way if I were to do good things.

 9. Be prayerful

Reflection nine ways: The nine ways to be happy will help me make my dreams and desires come true without doing anything bad to get them. I feel that if I am grateful for what I have good things will come my way. If I am smart about the choices I make I will be a great person in life. I will be more involved in my community and have a positive attitude when I am doing great things. I will be clean of any drugs well maybe not all drugs and stay away from bad influences. I will be humble of the mistakes I make I will stay true to myself and to anyone around me I will be who I was born to be a great person. I will commit myself to always follow the nine ways to be happy and never give up on my dreams.

Personal Development Attribute

Commitment

Definition: the state or quality of being dedicated to a cause, activity, etc.

“Commitment either you do or you don’t, there is no in between, commitment leads to action. Action brings your dreams closer.”

Reflection: the significance of this quote is that when you commit yourself to do something great you either do it or you don’t there is no maybe you have to think to yourself and say I do it or I don’t, but it is better if you accomplish what you committed yourself to do. Because when you commit to let’s say doing something for a project in school you can’t say oh maybe I can do this and that but I can’t granite that I will do it, then you shouldn’t be in a group where you will bring down every one with you that is not fair. Plus when you commit to do something it leads to actions and actions and commitments go together and if they go together than you can accomplish anything you set your head to commit to. Lets say I commit myself to be the president one day, the things I can do are indefinite to how I can get their, but I can get their if I follow the right path and soon that time will come when I have done everything in my power to be president and I will look back and think I’m finally here my commitment turned to actions and I came closer to my dream every time. As an example I made a commitment to pass my algebra class last year and as a result I passed I studied every night in order to pass my final test.

Personal Development Quote

“The key to freedom is obedience. The more obedient we are, the more freedom we have.”

Boyd K. Packer

Definitions: freedom: the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint.

Obedience: compliance with an order, request, or law or submission to another's authority.

The attribute in this quote is freedom and obedience.

 Reflection: What the quote itself means that when you follow those rules and don’t get into trouble you get freedom. The more you follow the rules the more freedom you get to do what you want. Obedience is what is said to someone like you must obey the rules but when you do what is said to be done you are being disobedient. So now what the word freedom means is that you do and say what you want you just can’t take advantage of that freedom because if you do you can get in trouble. Now put them together and to be free and say what you want you have to obey the rules and that truly is the way to do everything in life in work and in school and everywhere you are. I believe that if I am obedient at home I will get the freedom to go out to places by my self.

Personal development attribute

A smile

Definition: form one's features into a pleased, kind, or amused expression, typically with the corners of the mouth turned up and the front teeth exposed.

“Keep smiling because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.”

Reflection: what this quote means that life is worth living for because it is beautiful. But when you don’t smile at the world than what are you really living, you’re really not living when you don’t smile. Life is worth a smiling for and every day you don’t smile is a lost day of your life lost forever. When you don’t smile you are either depressed or sad but you can’t spend all your life like that can you, smile every once in a while and you may just experience something good that day. Every time life hits you with something bad you just have to get up and turn that sadness upside down. When you smile it feels good it feels like a great day and no one can change it around. Because when you smile you feel happy you just feel like you can take on the world. Having a smile can change the point of view that some one looks at you.so be happy because life is worth a smile.

Personal Development Attribute

Believe: to be confident in the truth what is real what you are and what you want to do.

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Reflection: what this quote means is that when you believe in something, standing by is the best thing to do because you can accomplish those dreams when you just believe. Believing you can do great things can get you to great places. If you don’t believe in what you want you will never accomplish those things. I believe that when I have a dream I have to believe it can come true because if I give up on the dream I will never know what will happen after. I have to trust in myself and not let anyone bring me down I have to be around good influences so they can boost my confidence. So when I want something I’m almost their I just have to think about the things I can do to get them.

911 Memorial

911 Attack

The  September 11 attack ( also referred as 911) were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks launched by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda upon the united states in New York City and the Washington, D.C ., metropolitan area on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The attacks killed almost 3,000 people , including more than 400 police officers and firefighters, and caused at least $10 billion in property and infrastructure damage.

Four passenger airliners were hijacked by 19 al-Qaeda terrorist so they could be flown into buildings in suicide attacks. Two of the planes were flown into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City and Washington, D.C., and the fourth plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. The attacks resulted in extensive death and destruction.

Unfortunately, there were not many survivors to find: Two firemen were pulled from their trunks in a cavity beneath some wreckage, and a few people were pinned who at the edge of the pile. By September 12 , workers had rescued all of the people who were trapped at the site.

The Twin Towers

The towers were massive. The North Tower rose 1,368 feet – 1,730 feet with a large

antenna – and the South Tower stood 1,362-feet high. Views extended 45 miles

or more from the top of the towers in every direction – far enough to see all five

New York City boroughs, New Jersey and Connecticut. Each weighed more than

250,000 tons and contained 99 elevators and 21,800 windows. Each floor was an acre

in size and there was enough concrete in the towers to build a five-foot-wide sidewalk

from New York City to Washington, DC. The World Trade Center (WTC) was a 16-acre commercial complex in lower Manhattan

that contained seven buildings, a large plaza, and an underground shopping mall that connected six of the buildings. The centerpieces of the complex were the Twin Towers.

On September 11, 2001, the entire complex was destroyed in a terrorist attack that has

come to be referred to as “9/11.”

The 911 Memorial Museum

The 911 Memorial museum honors the memory of those killed in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and the February 26, 1993 World Trade Center bombing. In doing so, it aspires to educate the millions of people expected to visit the World Trade Center each year in hopes of building a better future.

My Thoughts

I think that this was a disaster for all the family members that lost some one in the attacks. The day of the strike on the twin towers I was at least 1 year old so I don’t remember anything well technically I didn’t know about the attack.

“Decisions Determine Destiny”

Thomas S. Monson

The attributes that I can identify are all three because the decisions that you make in your life are what determine your destiny which means how you end up in the future and where. also the decisions that you make either good or bad can lead you to happy places or places that you thought you were never going to end up in. I believe that the good decisions that I make now will get me to accomplish my dream to be an OB/GYN in the future.

Personal Development Attribute

Caring

Definition: showing any type of kindness and a concern for others

“When you truly care for someone, their mistakes never change your feelings because it’s the mind that gets angry but the heart still cares.”

Reflection: What this means is that when you care for someone it can’t change your feelings for them when they make mistakes. Their mistakes only get you angry but in the end you still really care for then. Caring is not just being kind ton some person it is showing concern for what they are feeling inside then being concerned with their problems trying to make them feel better by helping them that is what I think caring means. Also caring is not only taking time to help someone you know but others people that might feel down that day and need a little push to get them on their feet again and just showing that you are concerned and showing kindness can help people.also i forgot to say that caring also means caring for the earth for giving us all that we need to survive.

Personal development attribute

Boldness

Definition: Going beyond your limits being imaginative.

“Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."

Reflection: What this means that that dreaming is natural it happens everyday day and night. Also when you dream something you feel you want to do it and don’t stop until you finish. Go beyond your dreams is even better just see yourself doing it and go for it be more imaginative than you are now. Because boldness can mean many thing such as not being afraid of near danger being heroic but in this case it means to dream big and accomplish those dreams no matter what it takes. The only thing you have to do is to believe you can do it because there is a powerful magic in boldness 

Personal development attribute

Attitude

Definition: A settled way of thinking or feeling about someone or something, typically one that is reflected in a person's behavior.

“A bad attitude is like a flat tire you can’t go anywhere if you don’t change it”

What this means is that when you have a bad attitude you will not go anywhere in life. You will be hated and not respected by people if you give then bad attitude. But when you have a good attitude you can accomplish so many things and people will respect you in so many ways.an example of this is this morning I saw this girl talking back to the teacher I don’t know why but for whatever reason it was some bad attitude she thought she could talk back to the teacher but little does she now that her negativity will get her nowhere in life. I also believe that when you have a good attitude you will be able to look forward and move on but without a good attitude you can only get so far.