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How to be a positive role model

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Are you a good person? Not only kids and teenagers need a positive role model in their lives. We all need someone to look up to. Someone that inspires us to great achievements. Someone to set an example to live by, even if they don’t know about it (but even better if they do).

Anyone can be anyone’s inspiration.

This means that you are someone’s inspiration, whether you know it or not. Live your life being a positive role model, you never know who’s watching you.

How to be a great role modelYour own role model can be anyone – international celebrity or your neighbor. It doesn’t matter who it is or if you know them in person.

The source of my inspiration always changes, depending on where I am in life. My family members, Nelson Mandela, my mentor, my co-worker, or even people I’ve only met once, just to mention a few.

How to find your role model

…and what to do when you’ve found him/her:

  1. Figure out which special traits you want to develop yourself.
  2. Find those special traits in other people.
  3. Choose your role model, someone to look up to and be inspired by.
  4. Watch, learn and then apply in reality what you want to achieve. Ask your role model how they do it, they will be more than happy to help you.

What if someone choose YOU as a source of inspiration?

Walk your talk and act with credibility. Present an ethical image. Live up to your own high set standards.

See yourself through the eyes of others – how would your own source of inspiration describe you? Or your neighbor or your family? Of course it comes down to the expectations of others, but communicate clearly and live up to your promises and you will be that positive role model.

And I beg you, tell the truth. Be honest with yourself and others. Do the right thing, always. If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically. No bullshit! …but use duct tape on your mouth when necessary.

Just listen more than you speak and treat everybody with respect and dignity. Try honestly to see things from the other person’s point of view, just like you’re asking people to look at things from your point of view.

Smile!

SMILE! Life is an amazing gift! You can be and do everything you want to. With the right amount of determination and hard work all your dreams are possible.

Help others to reach their dreams by being the person they can look up to and get the inspiration from. It will come back to you…karma is a powerful thing.

I do not want to die with regrets in my mind

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Why is it that the older we get, the less willing we are to take chances?

As we get older we get comfortable. We get used to things and see no point in trying to change the world. “My world is fine and that’s the world I live in, so why should I care about kids starving in Africa?” Ever heard about the butterfly effect..?

When we are kids or teenagers nothing can stop us. We will change this and achieve that…and save the world while we’re at it. The only thing stopping us, if we choose to, is the “old generation”, the people telling us to grow up, get a life. The people that has given up their dream for different reasons. Or maybe they never had a dream – “What’s the point? It’s not like I can change anything anyway.”

“You can’t save everybody.” I was told. “You have to think about yourself first. Why do you always have to do so much for everybody else?” My reply was always “Because I can.” And I still believe that I can make a change. I know I can’t save everybody, but if I can help just one single person who’s asking for a change in their life, then I will be 100% there for them.

Being in the organisation CISV has helped me helping others…and others to help me. During those 3-4 weeks once a year I cry, laugh, love and learn so incredibly much. I can not think of any other place where I experience this huge emotional roller coaster in such short period of time. A couple of years at university can, in my world, not even by a long-shot be compared to CISV camps with kids sometimes half my age. Those kids teach me more than most of the teachers do at Uni.

Part of the old generations wisdom is right, I know that the most important person in my life is myself. Without me being sound, I can not help anybody else. But I have also learnt my lesson; I will never let anybody take my dreams away from me and that’s what I tell my kids in CISV (and everybody else for that matter). Dare to dream.

Don’t take life to serious. At the end of the day you will die anyway. And how do you want to remember your life when you’re older? Proudly content, or regretfully disgruntled. Think about that one when you wake up in the morning…how’s your day going to be?

Just dare to live. It’s easy. What do you really have to loose compared to what you can actually win? Take a chance. Live a little. If you are not happy with your present life – change it! You are the only one that can change your life. You are the only one that can take that crucial decision about which way to go when you’re standing in one of those cross-roads in life. Clues, help and knowledge is everywhere, not only in the places where you think it might be.

Look around you and see the world for what it is. It’s huge. And it’s wide open for you. The sky is your limit and your mind sets the boundaries.

I beg you. Dare to dream. Because you know what? Dreams do come true.
- Tess

Inspiration: Toyah Lord was discussing this topic in People’s Post and reading her article I realize how true it is. (The article was published in People’s Post in March 2007)

Be A Kid Again

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  1. Do a cartwheel.
  2. Sing into your hairbrush.
  3. Walk barefoot in wet grass.
  4. Play a song you like really loud, over and over.
  5. Dot all your “i”s with smiley faces.
  6. Read the funnies. Throw the rest of the paper away.
  7. Dunk your cookies.
  8. Play a game where you make up the rules as you go along.
  9. Step carefully over sidewalk cracks.
  10. Change into some play clothes.
  11. Try to get someone to trade you a better sandwich.
  12. Eat ice cream for breakfast.
  13. Kiss a frog, just in case.
  14. Blow the wrapper off a straw.
  15. Have someone read you a story.
  16. Find some pretty stones and save them.
  17. Wear your favorite shirt with you favorite pants even if they don’t match.
  18. Take a running jump over a big puddle.
  19. Get someone to buy you something you really don’t need.
  20. Hide your vegetables under your napkin.
  21. Stay up past your bedtime.
  22. Eat dessert first.
  23. Fuss a little, then take a nap.
  24. Wear red gym shoes.
  25. Put way too much sugar on your cereal.
  26. Make cool screeching noises every time you turn a corner.
  27. Giggle a lot for no reason.
  28. Give yourself a gold star for everything you do today.