i have an assembly in school on the topic “confusions” in ones life and overcoming them…HELP!!!?
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1. “Throughout history the human mind and the human spirit have overcome and endured problems and situations that seemed insurmountable.” Les Brown
2. “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” Elizabeth Kubler Ross
3. “Healing is a matter of time, but it is at times also a matter of opportunity.” Hippocrates
4. “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” Melodie Beattie
5. “Real success comes when you learn to act as if everything depends on you and pray as if everything depends on God.” Oprah Winfrey
6. Whenever I am going through a change, I lean heavily on my resources. I interview friends who have gone through something similar. I reduce the learning curve of a new skill by reading books, taking classes, listening to audiocassettes. I brainstorm in my journal about who could offer guidance. I’ve found that there may be many people in my life who can help me with each major or minor change-I just need to ask.
7. What resources from the list below might have helped you? Which could you call upon to help you now?
Family
Friends
Priest, minister, spiritual teacher
Inspirational books and scriptures
Workshops and classes
Mentors in your field
Libraries and bookstores
Businesspeople in your community
Your writing journal
Dreams
Inner guidance
Spiritual exercises or other spiritual practices.
(From How to Master Change in Your Life: Sixty-Seven Ways to Handle Life’s Toughest Moments by Mary Carroll Moore, , Eckankar, Minneapolis, MN, 1997, p. 169.)
8. Don’t let obstacles make you angry. Instead, realize that they can be an opportunity to help you grow.
“If anger is not restrained it is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.” – Seneca
9. A man found a cocoon for a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared, he sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through the little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and could go no farther. Then the man decided to help the butterfly.
He took a pair of scissors and snipped the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily. Something was strange. The butterfly had a swollen body and shrivelled wings. The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected at any moment, the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body, which would contract in time. Neither happened. In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and deformed wings. It was never able to fly. What the man in his kindness and haste did not understand was that the restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the small opening of the cocoon are nature’s way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon. Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life.
Life without any obstacles would cripple us. We would not be as strong as what we could have been. Not only that, we could never learn to fly.
10. Inspiring story: (remove all spaces from the following links) http://www. berkeley.edu/news/ media/releases/2002/ 07/19_aileycamp.html
11. Inspiring story #2: http://www. bkhs.org/ NewsEvents/News/Detail/ ?id=85&page=/ NewsEvents/News/
12. When I was a Boy Scout, we played a game when new Scouts joined the troop. We lined up chairs in a pattern, creating an obstacle course through which the new Scouts, blindfolded, were supposed to maneuver. The Scoutmaster gave them a few moments to study the pattern before our adventure began. But as soon as the victims were blindfolded, the rest of us quietly removed the chairs. I think life is like this game. Perhaps we spend our lives avoiding obstacles we have created for ourselves and in reality exist only in our minds. We’re afraid to apply for that job, take violin lessons, learn a foreign language, call an old friend, write our Congressman – whatever it is that we would really like to do but don’t because of personal obstacles. Don’t avoid any chairs until you run smack into one. And if you do, at least you’ll have a place to sit down. — Pierce Vincent Eckhart
“One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles
possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.”
Albert Schweitzer
Okay well heres my best shot.
Try a role play on making the right decisions like you get so bombardid with decisions in school dont you like what options to take and all sorts. overcoming it would be making a checklist on what different ones could help you in what you want to do.
That may help x
