How can I tell what I think until I see what I say? --E.M. ForsterEvery week you will be responsible for posting a reply to an online journal question. This response needs to be at least one full paragraph (minimum of 5-6 sentences). Being an online journal, this is somewhat informal in nature but you do need to use complete sentences, watch your spelling, and fully develop your thoughts. Make sure your responses are adhering to the posted rules or they will be deleted. Be open, be creative, be yourself.
Now, for your first online journaling assignment. Consider the following quotation:
Don't do whatever you like; like whatever you do. --Anne M. Jennings
Describe an instance where you have applied this advice in your own life or a situation in which you could give it a try. In the picture, see how any ordinary day in the Snow household can become a great adventure with this bunch a monkeys! Life is full of amazing possibilities. It is our attitude that can lift us up or hold us back if we let it. Consider how our attitudes can be changed if we will try to see the potential in any given situation and, in turn, how different the outcome could be if our attitudes towards the situation are different. What good things could come from having a good attitude about something new? An online journal, for instance ....
I like to cook, but cooking is not always fun. However, I am always learning when cooking, so fun or not I shall always like it.
ReplyDeleteI'd have to say, that I apply the quote to my life everyday. Considering schol, I do what I like. I chose wether to do class work, homework, and whatever else I may be asked to do by a teacher. Everything I do is my desicion. As for the 'like what you do' portion of the quote, I really do enjoy school. I love learning and being around other people. I enjoy listening to teachers talk and I'm always curious and asking question.
ReplyDeletei apply this to every day life. either i can do something because i want to and be misserale if its not exactly how i wated, or i can look at the brightside of every thing and make the best of thing, so that way i can enjoy it.
ReplyDeleteIt is better to have a good attitude about things because when you do life can go on alot easier, but if you have a bad attitude about simple things than everything seems alot more complicated. It is also a good thing for you to have fun in your life at least once in awhile. If you don't than everything will be boring an your life won't be very exciting.
ReplyDeleteIts a good saying. It is talking about looking on the bright side one everything. And thats a good way to look at life.
ReplyDeleteI take a lot from the quote. I think to myself about soccer. I like playing soccer, but i also like how I play. It's good to have a positive attitude about everything, because we might lose a game, but if i had a negative attitude afterwards, my teamates aren't going to want to play with me. Attitides are what people look for in you. So have a good one.
ReplyDeleteI think it is way easier to have a bright outlook on life.
ReplyDeleteIt makes everything so much easier and helps you focus on what needs to be done.
I think if everyone would have a positive outlook on life there wouldn't be as much conflict.
Being positive should come first before all things, or else you won't get things accomplished to the best of your ability.
if you do what you like and not like what you do then you are basically limiting yourself. If you dont like what you do then it might push you to do new things you may like to do. You might eventually like what you do but you have to do what you like first. Having a good attitude about something new is great. I apply this to everyday life by doinghomework. I dont like it but it will be good in the future!
ReplyDeleteIf you do whatever you like, you'll eventually run out of things and your life can quickly become a train wreck. If you like what you do, you will be happy and not have to worry about having to find something else to do. If you live by this simple rule, you will be happy and successfull.
ReplyDeleteif you follow the advice that the quote gives you, you would definitly be more positive. it can help you through your life because your attitude affects everything that you do.
ReplyDeleteI think the best area to apply is for the past couple of months I've been looking for a job but I'd rather do something I like then something I don't care for.
ReplyDeleteI like playing sports. Thats what i do. But i dont play by my rules or just on my own. I have to learn how to play as a team and not be selfish. I try to encourage or help others do well, so we can all have fun and win.
ReplyDeleteWhat my parents like to do (work) isn't exactly what I am fond of, it takes a lot not to lash out and have a bad attitude when she hands me that mile long list of chores and says "Get to it!" in that happy cheery voice of hers. As much as I want to rip the list up into a million pieces I realize their's nothing I can do about it so why have a bad attitude! So all I can do is whistle the song "Don't Worry Be Happy" and take the songs advice, life's too short to be angry through it all.
ReplyDeleteI like football a lil and my dad loves it. I first started playin for just my dad, then i started to like the sport more and more. This last season i was injured and unable to play, and it showed me how much i truly love football.
ReplyDeleteIf you do what you like and like what you do you'll always be happy.I play video games and it makes me happy. I like finding out new ways to do stuff; finding new ways to do things, finding glitches, figuring out how to trigger and get through the glitches, and playing the game with my friends is fun too.
ReplyDeletewell i like playing guitar and video games. BOth of those are my favorite things to do. I want to be a video game tester or a famous guitar player. that is what i like to do.
ReplyDeleteSo one day I was at church and I was told to help out with the kindergardners. They wanted me to take all 10 of them to the bathroom. I told them that I didn't want to and I still had to. I decided to have a good additude and do it anyways. It was one of the worst things ever. After I was done I got to have some cake.
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ReplyDeleteOnce in the evening two years ago, my sister and I told my parents that we were going for a drive around the neighborhood. Amber, my sister, asked me if I wanted to go to her house. I immediatly said, " yes ", and two hours later, we were pulling up to her front drive. It was dark, about 9pm, my sister and I decided to stay the night and were planning to leave the next morning. We were out by 8am the next morning, after going through morning traffic, we were within the city line of Kopperl. My sister took a back, dirt, road that went around the city, instead of driving through the traffic of the little town. The truck was doing fine, untill we came up to a T intersection, my sister went to stop, giving the right of way to the coming truck. Her breaks gave out and we collided head on with the other, white, Ford F150. The metal scraping agains't eachother, the screaching of the locked tires, it rings in my ears till this very day. I remember when I went to get out of the truck, the fog of the smoke from the air-bag sarrounded the two trucks, making the air sting and hard to breath in. I crawled out of the truck through my side door, which still worked, my sisters dog also made her chance to escape and jet out of the truck and run towards the house that was near us. I ran after her, holding my arm tightly, it numb from the shoulder down, my sister had to crawl out of my door of the truck, because her side was crushed in from the collision. She yelled for me, but I didn't answer, slightly in shock, I only had one thing on my mind, getting Ambers dog, Amber yelled for her dog and the dog came back to me in a hurry with another puppy running happily behind her, wanting to play, un-aware of the wreck that happened infront of its home. Amber came over to me, scared and uneasy, she hugged me tightly, saying sorry over and over. A lady walked around the other truck, with her young son in hand, him walking beside her with a curious look on his face, almost as if the wreck never happened, I remember that the lady was crieng, looking at her son franticaly to make sure he was ok. The house that we had collided infront of, was her fathers house, he and the rest of her family came running out to make sure everyone was ok, my sister walked over to her and her son, asking them if they were ok, and saying sorry and that she would call 9-1-1. Her cell phone wouldn't recieve any reception, it was damaged, and so she dug in my pocket looking for mine and used it to call 9-1-1, me sitting on the ground by this time, holding her dog in my arm, my right arm not able to move laying on my lap. I gave no notice to the sarroundings, I was just happy that everyone was ok, I remember the sound of the sirens as it came rushing down the dirt road to the colision, they were loud, and annoying, the lady and her young son went into one of them, and they left to the hospital. They asked me if I wanted to go, but I denied them their request, not saying anything about my arm, they asked my sister and she denied them as well, my parents and friends showed up and tried to get me and my sister to go home after the police had gotten their report about what happened, but we wouldn't, we stayed there, watching the wrecker drag her and the other ladies truck away from the road, the sounds were so different, the rocks seemed to scream as they were drug over the ground with the weight of the trucks on them, the metal made a noise as if it was cracking from the pressure. After the wreckers had the trucks on their trailers, I went home with my mother and father, the AC hurt my burns and cuts from the air-bag and seat belt, I apolagized over and over to my parents for lieng to them, but they paid them no mind, they were just worried about me. They didn't seem to care about the appology, they just wanted to make sure that I was fine. It's funny how people, like me, think they will never get in a wreck, -
Doing what you like and liking what you do just basically means that whatever you choose to do be sure it makes you happy. If you dont like what you do you'll just end up being unhappy all the time. Now on the otherhand if you do something you like you'll be happier more often than not.
ReplyDeleteHappiness opens many doors, if you like what you're doing, it's simple to be happy. For instance; If I was unhappy about doing this assignment, I'd never get around to it. So if I enjoy taking care of my responsibilities, things become much simpler. Therefore, taking care of my responsibilities and liking it at the same time can only make me happier which will lead a bright and enjoyable future.
ReplyDeleteOn the other-hand if I was putting off the assignment, I sure wouldn't be smiling at my final grade. It's just easier in general to be happy about what you need to do rather than doing what you want.
Wow! Great comments so far!! Hopefully, we are getting all our ID/Display name glitches worked out and will be good to go for round 2! If you haven't posted yet, GET TO IT!! Better late than never!! :)
ReplyDeleteI think, that this quote relates to me as in I know there are a lot of things I should so when my parents ask me to. Even though I would rather not do what they had ask I would rather just do it instead of fight and argue. So sometimes you should just grow up and be more mature and have a good attitude with things it's apart of life. Your gonna have to do it a lot, like when you start working if you already don't.
ReplyDeleteThis means that you should have no regrets. Live your life to the fullest. Have many suprizes:). Love who you are and what you have become. And how you have became it.
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This made me think of tennis. Sometimes, we have to run... Which I HATE!! But you can't just tell the coach "I don't feel like it, I will skip this one." Because with that attitude it will get you no where but trouble! So even though you don't want to at all, you just smile and say "Yes coach." Even when you don't want to do something it helps to know atleast you had a smile.
ReplyDeleteI'm really into mixing and hoping I can go somewhere with it. But it takes a lot of effort and time. Most of the time it can take hours just to make a good sound. But once you get the finished sound you want, it ends up being worth it.
ReplyDeleteWhat you said has a well put point. I'm not one to talk about good additudes, but I know a good one can change your day. If you go through every day sad like some one killed your dog in a random drive by, your life will be slow & boring. But if you smile & laugh you'll see that good things happen every day.Even on the worst of days.
ReplyDeleteThis quote has, what I think, many meanings, for one it means simply to have control. "Don't do whatever you like," is stating to have self-control, if people could do whatever they pleased would be chaos on many levels. "Like whatever you do" refers to be positive towards your actions, no matter what they are. By doing so you'll make your life a whole lot easier, yes it's proven doing something with a good attitude always have better outcomes then if your negative. Putting each puzzle piece (the quote) together make this statement, "Limit yourself, and enjoy the things your not limited to" which makes sense doesn't it. If you restrain from the bad, and be happy about the good, your life will be significantly better
ReplyDeleteI love shooting hoops and taken care of my brother thats atustic and he loves to play basketball with me and it rough sometimes because im not their most of the time with him and we love each other and our family alot. we cook togather because he want to be just like me and it hard but our family gave us upertunities to give him a shoot .Also atcheave in something that he love and we cheer for him. thats always maken me happy what he can do to get better at and not giving up .
ReplyDeleteif you always do as u like and dont like what you are doing you are most likely doin something wrong .You have to like what you are doing an not do as you like becuse sooner are later you will end up unhappy .So if you like what you are doin you are most likely doing the right thing .And i thing that becuse when you do good you can feel good about yourself but when you are not you feel bad .So i would choose to like what i do rather than to do as i like .
ReplyDeletei really like to skateboard. yes it takes time and practice to do it right but when you master a trick the feeling you get is the greatest. when you master one you just want to keep at it. so each time you get better and better and you start to love what you are doing.
ReplyDeletewell i love to play soccer and i think im good but i tried out for the team last year and it seems im not good enough. i think the only thing i cant do right is running. I just recently found out i have sports indused ashma and now i no why i cant run as good. but just cuz i cant run dont mean im not good enough for bransons soccer team. im trying out this year and if i dont make it im done with soccer for good cuz obviously im not good enough.
ReplyDeleteBonita, if you love soccer, by all means, Keep Playing!! Be positve and practice, practice, practice!! After all, if you still don't make the team, what will you have lost? Several hours spent doing something you love anyway?! GO FOR IT!!
ReplyDeleteI really liked doing track and for me it is quite an amzing feeling to know you beat your last time on the event you do.
ReplyDeleteWell i get this quote but more times i say it more i get confused. I guess this can be implied to school though. For instance when i come to school i don't like it but i need to like what i do at school. Because if i dont like what im doing then i probably won't remember what i just learned. Unless it interested me and most of my school subjects don't do that. So what i interpret from this quote is even if you don't like it you should anyways because later in life you may have to use whatever you didn't like. I'm not really sure if it makes sense but it's what i got from the quote.
ReplyDeleteThe only way to live a good life is if you enjoy what you accomplish. Nothing good can come from having a negative attitude towards any situation. The best and only thing you can do is try to enjoy it even if you know you wont, give it a try.
ReplyDeleteSomething good always comes out when you have a good attitude and enjoy what you do. Like what you do but always give new things a try.
This can apply to everyday life. Almost everyday in school I do things I dont want to do. When you act positive about things. positive things happen. Theresno use on being negative all the time.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Manbearpig420 because I don't like wakeing up at 5 in the morning to come to school. but I know that in the long run it will be
ReplyDeletebeneficial to me, so I might as well look on the bright side.