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Can a person achieve everything they want to in this life?
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Scuba Pete
Le plongeur avec attitude...
You don't have to fall.
I have made a point of learning something new or being certified in something new each and every year. I think that personal growth is important.
I have also made it a life long ambition to serve those around me. Funny how they keep letting me do that!
I have made a point of learning something new or being certified in something new each and every year. I think that personal growth is important.
I have also made it a life long ambition to serve those around me. Funny how they keep letting me do that!
timpeters
Member
Depends on what you want to achieve I mean, if it's to play Halo 2 and eat Doritio's it shouldn't be too tough.
Personally, I don't think I ever will ...unless immorality technology becomes available before I die. Which is pretty possible...upload my brain to a computer, clone a new body, cryogenicaly freeze myself, whatever...oh, and if politicians actually legalize it and allow consenting adults to do what they want with their bodies. Which hopefully shouldn't be too tall of an order by 2050!
I mean, if it's to play Halo 2 and eat Doritio's it shouldn't be too tough. Personally, I don't think I ever will
...unless immorality technology becomes available before I die. Which is pretty possible...upload my brain to a computer, clone a new body, cryogenicaly freeze myself, whatever...oh, and if politicians actually legalize it and allow consenting adults to do what they want with their bodies. Which hopefully shouldn't be too tall of an order by 2050!
Prima
Well-Known Member
:areyoucra
I don't think it's the 'trying and failing' bit, I think it's the high goals part. I know that I'll never be bored, because my goal is to end world hunger, abuse, and neglect, with a side dish of curing disease. Oh, and knowing everything. It gives me something to do in my free time
People with goals that are too low risk the danger of achieving all their goals - and then feeling that their life is then pointless.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
Somehow I doubt I could achieve my dream and wrestle for the WWE and live a very relaxing life at the same time.
Scuba Pete
Le plongeur avec attitude...
Well, I'm gonna do it all or die trying!
Malus 12:9
Temporarily Deactive.
I guess it could be if you were both wrestling Torrie Wilson and married to her at the same timeLuke Wolf said:
Malus 12:9
Temporarily Deactive.
Try before Die!NetDoc said:Well, I'm gonna do it all or die trying!
Now this is question I am honestly not too sure about.
I can well remember my Mum telling me "You chieve anything you like in life, if you put your mind to it". For some reason, that has worked badly against me - it wasn't Mum's fault, but it is a dictate that does harm some people; unfortunately, I am one of those.
A very young child, when something is repeated to him/her enough times, takes it as 'read' - what he/she has been told becomes a truism.
Not every child has the same mental attributes; experiences in early years can influence their characters greatly. For some, experiences of repeated failures leave them feeling very un-competitive; I know - I am like that. As I have said, no one is directly 'to blame'; not my Mother, not me, just plain old happenstance, repeatedly knocking a message into me - try as hard as you will to please everybody:- "it jut ain't going to happen".
I know it sounds far fetched, but there is another little aside to this, of which I have been told, and I must admit to not having studied it enough to be able to form an opinion. Young children listen to their parents intently - after all, Mum and Dad are the 'Guides' we first have. But kids don't have the ability to interpret meanings into what they are told.
The belief of those who advocate the negativity of this system would say "Tell a child he can achieve anything he wants to in his life, and you run the risk of screwing him up".
This is based on the premise of non interpretation by the child; he/she accepts the dictate as 'carved in stone' - it becomes a perceived truism, instead of a myth.
"I want to become a fighter pilot in the air force" - Andy, my own son told me, countless times; when it came to it, because of his vision (myopic), he would never have been accepted. For him, had I coached him with the "you can......", there might well have been a backlash of "Well, I can't, Mum & dad told me lies." - subconsciously.
We are, as far as the people who advocate this aspect of Neuro Linguistic programming, far better off saying "Try as hard as you can, and you stand the best chance; you cannot do better than your best - if you have done your best and still fail, then don't take it badly."
Reminds me of "If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;.......................
...............................
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools." (from Rudyard Kipling's "IF")
Sorry if I have rambled, but this is something I feel needs more awareness.........
I can well remember my Mum telling me "You chieve anything you like in life, if you put your mind to it". For some reason, that has worked badly against me - it wasn't Mum's fault, but it is a dictate that does harm some people; unfortunately, I am one of those.
A very young child, when something is repeated to him/her enough times, takes it as 'read' - what he/she has been told becomes a truism.
Not every child has the same mental attributes; experiences in early years can influence their characters greatly. For some, experiences of repeated failures leave them feeling very un-competitive; I know - I am like that. As I have said, no one is directly 'to blame'; not my Mother, not me, just plain old happenstance, repeatedly knocking a message into me - try as hard as you will to please everybody:- "it jut ain't going to happen".
I know it sounds far fetched, but there is another little aside to this, of which I have been told, and I must admit to not having studied it enough to be able to form an opinion. Young children listen to their parents intently - after all, Mum and Dad are the 'Guides' we first have. But kids don't have the ability to interpret meanings into what they are told.
The belief of those who advocate the negativity of this system would say "Tell a child he can achieve anything he wants to in his life, and you run the risk of screwing him up".
This is based on the premise of non interpretation by the child; he/she accepts the dictate as 'carved in stone' - it becomes a perceived truism, instead of a myth.
"I want to become a fighter pilot in the air force" - Andy, my own son told me, countless times; when it came to it, because of his vision (myopic), he would never have been accepted. For him, had I coached him with the "you can......", there might well have been a backlash of "Well, I can't, Mum & dad told me lies." - subconsciously.
We are, as far as the people who advocate this aspect of Neuro Linguistic programming, far better off saying "Try as hard as you can, and you stand the best chance; you cannot do better than your best - if you have done your best and still fail, then don't take it badly."
Reminds me of "If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;.......................
...............................
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools." (from Rudyard Kipling's "IF")
Sorry if I have rambled, but this is something I feel needs more awareness.........
EnhancedSpirit
High Priestess
Anything that man can perceive, and conceive, can be achieved.
Stormygale
Member
Yea, right.
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So many things can hold a person down from aspiring to their full self expectations.
Finance.
Self-confidence.
Those TWO alone have ruined whole kingdoms.
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So many things can hold a person down from aspiring to their full self expectations.
Finance.
Self-confidence.
Those TWO alone have ruined whole kingdoms.
Master Vigil
Well-Known Member
I like to think anyone can achieve everything they want to in life. Only if they want little. Stay empty, and you can always be filled up.