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I would like to take part in a long-distance marathon?
We all notice those people, who are running, while we are walking with our friends or hurrying to work. We glance at them and forget then, but what a strong character all those people have!
Am I one of them? No, not really. I don’t run on a daily basis. Sometimes I put on comfortable sweatpants and favourite T-shirt and go to impress random passers at lake near my house at 7 a.m, but I don’t do it regularly, though, I think, that running is the best activity and I have always wanted to take part in some marathon, especially I like the idea of London marathon, though I can’t fully explain why. Here’re my reasons for taking part in a long-distance race.
1. Character strengthening
Before the marathon, you need to go through hard process of preparation for it.You have rigorous diet, rest and sleep mode and regular training sessions now. It turns you into self-disciplined, responsible, determined person. And the whole process of running: when you don’t have air anymore to breathe, your lungs can’t let the air in but you run, you see the goal and you run towards it - makes you more enduring and stronger not only physically but also mentally. No excuses, no “I can’t”.Try again.Fail again.Fail better.
2. Inspiration/exhilaration
If you don’t know that feeling after a good run, I encourage you to have at least one run in your life to feel that. After you run your distance for today, you become proud of yourself. You did it. You didn’t stop in the middle of the distance, didn’t say “I can’t do that” and your success will inspire you and you will go jogging tomorrow again. After a good run the brain works better and problems are seemed solvable.
3. Realization of inner potential
I was speaking a lot about my theory of inner potential of every single person in the world. Making long story short, I think that every person has something inside of him/her, something one should develop in order to feel oneself happy. Everyone wants to live full happy life and, I think, when you have understood what your inner potential is and made everything for its realization you will never regret your life and reproach yourself that you have lived wrongly for all those years.
Marathon is a huge experience. Just imagine, 42 kms. After reaching the finish line, you will be another person. You will be the person, who has run marathon, who has come through all obstacles and managed with all difficult problems. You are stronger now. You are better now. You are new now.
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1. Passion
It is the hardest part, in my opinion. I think, there are so few people, who know what their passion is. Millions of people through all over the world hate their work, quarrel a lot at home and just don’t know what to do with their life. They can’t find themselves. It is so important to have something which will help you to wake up and get up from bed even in the gloomiest morning.
About me, I love languages (I know, you guys, are always scolding foreign people, who use that strong word for almost everything. You say we should use “like” but I don’t want to. I love languages with all my heart and I want to dedicate all my life to it. Can you allow me to use it in this case? ;) ) I am too young to say that it is my passion for the rest of my life, I can say it definitely only after it will pass the test of time, but now languages are something that make me happier during the day. I read books and watch movies in English and the fact that I can understand almost everything makes me so proud and happy and pushes me to improve my skills further.
I am not that person,whose advice you should listen to, but I just want to say one thing. Try everything! Even if you could fail. Yesterday I watched an amazing cartoon Zootopia and that Shakira’s song is from that cartoon (strongly recommend to listen to song and spend 1,5 hour on cartoon) How can you find your passion in life if you don’t want to try anything new, if you don’t want to change yourself and your lifestyle? Take the Japanese course, start playing basketball, learn how to play a guitar, go to Australia (in case you don’t live there), try new recipe! Break stereotypes! There are so many fields and spheres to try yourself in and by sitting at one place you just lose all these brilliant opportunities.
Without passion you can’t be successful, because you will develop only in case if you like what you are doing. I heard some years ago an amazing quote that if you choose the work you truly like, you won’t have to work for even a single day in your life. I can’t remember who said that but it is so true. When you like what you are doing, you even don’t notice how the time flies and don’t feel that your work is a duty. You are willing to do some extra-work and will definitely achieve success because development in that field is something without which you can’t live.
Do you have passion in life? If yes, what is it?
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Just my scribble
Well, first of all, I wanted to say about TED. Actually, that photo, which is attached to my scribble, is a screenshot from one of the videos from TED. If you don’t know what to do with your life or are disappointed with the fact that the world is no more interesting for you, check out TED channel on Youtube. To tell the truth, they have several channels. The one, where they upload only videos with youngsters, the one with their special lessons, and they even have one with only videos for women (some of them made me cry, by the way). With the help of one video I’ve learnt how to draw within 15 minutes. There are a lot of videos and articles which promise you that you will have that or this skill after reading/watching but in the end you should work hard anyway. But that video! I can really draw now! I was doing everything what the man from video asked to do and then I shown my drawings to sister and she asked me if I had taken some drawing course in the Internet. I can give you link if you are interested, just write me a message, because it is really worth watching!
The only thing that unite all these various videos is that they have idea worth spreading, something that draw people’s attention, you can learn something new from every video. And, hmm, it is not an advertisement, they haven’t paid me for these words, I just like to share with people priceless information :)
And here’s the idea of one video. Here’s 8 traits of successful people.
Everyone wants to be successful. It doesn’t matter what our occupation is and it doesn’t matter if we are 18 or 42. Everyone wants to be successful but not everyone knows the answer to the question: how to become successful? And that man (by the way, you can even see him in the picture) interviewed a lot of successful people: artists, journalists, pop stars, directors, women and men. It was a huge work and finally he has distingushed these 8 traits. I want to speak about myself a little bit in this entry (it is my account, right? :D) , and I want to discuss every trait and what role it plays in my life and give you some of my tips.
Well, after such intoduction I don’t have characters anymore: D I think I will dedicate the whole entry to each trait since I have very good ideas for all of them and also since I am very talkative, it won’t be a problem to write the whole entry starting from the one word, like “work” or “serve”. I have so many to say! Stay in touch :)
27 mei 2016
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Team work or work on one's own? (Continuation)
3. Is that nice atmosphere really helpful for work?
When you are all together, yes, you have the opportunity to discuss your ideas and solve problems in the most efficient way. But.. all these jokes, laughter and noisy discussions can be only entertaining and not productive at all. You can laugh all evening and come to your homes with the same amount of done work as you gathered before.
All these things can be easily avoided if you are working on your own. Yes, you will be responsible for everything and should do everything just by yourself, but if you are not the one from the first item, will it scare you? I don’t think so.
Don’t judge me for all these words. I know what I am talking about. I am preparing the large concert together with my classmates at my school now and I should work in team with them. And we have all these problems, that I listed above. I would be glad to do everything on my own but I just don't have such opportunity, what makes me so upset and sometimes even angry.
What will you choose? Do you prefer teamwork to work on your own?
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Team work or work on one's own?
They say that to improve your language you should gradually improve all your skills: writing, listening, speaking. But what can I do to improve my writing skills? It’s really boring for me to write about my day and things that happened during the day (the amount of which, I should admit, is really small). So how can I pick a topic and set to writing? There’s no way! So, enjoy my nonsense about actually everything and nothing simultaneously ;)
Some people prefer to work in team, they think there is no better way to complete the work and do it at the high level. The more people, the more ideas and the more hands not only to finish the work but to do it with some extra-things (especially, if we are speaking about some projects). And the whole atmosphere is so nice: people laugh, make jokes, communicate with each other. But I, personally, hate team work. And here’s why.
1. People are the most irresponsible creatures.
There are always people in the team, who are concentrated on the success. The think about the work, they do it properly and are not afraid to say when and how they will finish their piece of work. But there are always people, who will postpone their part until someone else from the team will not do it for them. Either because they are lazy or because they think about something else right now and consider some other things as much more important. And also it is really hard to gather together all those irresponsible people, because they will be always “sorry, I’m late” or “I can’t come today, sorry”. Why the hell responsible people should endure that?
2. The quarrels are inevitable.
People are so different. They have their own world outlook and their own thoughts at various subjects. Sometimes in the team there can be two people who have even strongly opposite points of view and it’s really hard to think of interests of each person and some people should inevitably conform to other members of the team and their great thoughts and ideas are bound to perish.
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