Are You....

SO, I decided that since I didn't want the Crazy 40 ppl reading the saaame thing...I thought updating this might be nice.

So, I def. went to this Leadership Conference today, met some cool ppl, didn't learn much, but hey! It was better than working on MORE of my projects all day...
Buts, teaching us to be leaders? In my personal view, I find it better to just learn how to be a better person on your own..as long as your willing..but even if you aren't, a conference oor school, sure as hell isn't going to do any better. Like, schools are supposed to "make us think" right? I've found I've learned SO much more about the kind of person I wanna be, etc. etc. than I ever have in school. I mean, I feel like I've learned a lot of important life lessons this year...like...(yes I AM a dork, I write them down to remind myself to better myself, eh oh well, nerdy, but i think it works...)...

-Don't be afraid to be better than the person next to you-people are afraid to do what's right or be head of the class b/c of the whole "safety in numbers" thing..but if you think about it, if we ever want to be something "outside the box" we simply can't resort to conformity.

-It's NEVER too late to do ANYTHING, as long as you set your mind to it and earn it...
REmember..
*The star in Chicago on Broadway didn't start formal dance raning uneil she was 17
*Martha Graham didn't start dancing until she was 22 (u know..she invented her own technique of modern dancing)
*Misty Copeland didn't start Ballet training until she was 16
=and yes, I realize that these are all dancers, but I'm sure if you look up anyone in the area of your interest, you'll find someone who started late, and if not, who's to say you can't be the 1st?

*It's more important to feel pleased w/ yourself, than to try to impress others and worry about their thoughts...

*Sometimes God's answer is no, or wait (now, I'm really not very religious, but in fate and future in general, even things not occuring, is occuring in itself, it all comes out w/ positives in the end

*ALWAYS go for what's right, not what's convenient

**The majority of people who don't make it, never tried hard enough!

***CONSIDER THE SOURCE
ok, story time...I'll try to make it short...
So my dad came home from work and was like "Amanda something weird happened today! I was just walking out of Verizon and on my way to the truck this guy says, 'I hate your fuckin' guts.' and I said 'wait wut? who r u? OH WAIT, I know you...we used to work together @ NiMO"
See, my dad was head of electric vehicles @ a huge power company called Niagra Mohawk (aka NiMo)then there was all these layoffs and my dad was part of it (like, 6 yrs ago) but it was a good thing b/c he started his own company and is pretty successful in it, he's always wanted to do it. ANYways, so my dad continues w/ the story "Yeah, n' the guy was like 'WE ALL HATED YOU, YOU DID EVERYTHING RIGHT' so I say 'is this all? look I don't have time for this shit' and the guy stops me and says 'WAIT, I wanna tell u something' and I say 'you wannna apologize, 15 yrs later?' Now, he's righht, everyone hated me, they were always trying to tell me I was wrong and drag me down, it was terrible so I say 'wut, u want me to accept your apology? well I'm sry I gotta go..' and I could not BELIEVE! I mean imagine!!! THIS GUY, carrying around this LOAD 4 15 yrs.!!!" so I asked my dad how he dealt w/ all of the ppl and he said "consider the source", I asked him to explain and he said "I would feel very upset if you or your sister or mother told me that you hated me, but these ppl., they were cowards! they didn't mean anything to me, so y should I waste my time on what they think???"

so that's my philosophy in regardes to "anonymous" there, I frankly don't care, and anyone who this shit happens to as well, screw 'em! you got better things to do than waste your time w/ all that.

Ppl who were misunderstood...
Mozart
Socrates
Galileo
Einstein
add to it, become part of it...