Khin Maung Nyo (Economics) - Youth Empowerment Diary

January 3

1. Take it, practice it, be sharp, and you will have the world at your feet. Treat me lightly, and I will destroy you. Who am I? I am Habit.
2. Depending on what they are, our habits can either make us who we are or make us suffer. We become what we repeat.
3. Plant a thought, an action, a habit, a habit, a character, a character, a destiny.
   
   
4. Luckily, you are stronger than your habits. So you have the ability to change your habits, for example, now try counting your hands. Now try counting your hands in reverse. How do you feel, doesn't it feel a little strange? But if you count your hands in reverse for a month, nothing will be strange anymore. You won't even think it's strange, you'll get used to it.
5. The 7 Habits will help you take control of your life, improve your relationships with friends, make better decisions, get along better with your parents, overcome addictions, define your values ​​and what is important to you, increase your self-confidence, be happier, and not be sidelined in school, work, or with friends.
6. Perception is also called a paradigm. The way you see something, your perspective, your frame of reference, your beliefs are called a paradigm. As you may have noticed, our perceptions are often flawed, and therefore create limitations and obstacles. For example, you may want to believe that you are not qualified to go to university, but remember that Ptolemy believed that the Earth was the center of the universe.
7. Vision is like glasses. If you don't see yourself or your life fully, it's like wearing glasses with the wrong power. You see through those lenses. What you see depends on your glasses. If you think you're stupid, that belief makes you stupid. If you think you're good, that belief makes everything you do beautiful.
8. Having a negative self-image can lead to incompetence, while having a positive self-image can bring out your best qualities.
9. If you have a distorted view of yourself, you might be wondering how to fix it. One thing you can do is spend time with someone who believes in you and nurtures you. My father is that kind of person. He would say things like, “Shang, you should be the class leader,” and “Take that girl out and she’ll be happy to see you.” If you need encouragement, you can talk to him. He would clean my glasses and help me improve my self-image.
10. If you ask any successful person, they will tell you that they have someone who believes in them (a teacher, a friend, a parent, a guardian, a sister, a grandmother). You just need to have someone who believes in you. It doesn't matter who.
11. Don't be afraid to rely on someone who believes in you, to accept their encouragement. Go to them and get advice. Learn to see yourself as they see you. Someone once said, "When you see yourself as God wants you to be, you will rise to the top and never be the same again."
12. We have different perspectives, not just about ourselves, but also about other people. These perspectives can be flawed. Learning to see things from a different perspective helps us understand why other people act the way they do, empathize, and be helpful. We often judge and judge others without having complete information.
13. Monica, a teenager, says, “I lived in California for a long time, where I had a lot of good friends. I had a lot of friends, so I didn’t care if a new friend came along. I thought that the new ones would just have to take care of themselves. But when I changed schools, I was the new kid and I wanted someone to take care of me. I wanted to be included in their group of friends, and my perspective changed. I realized how bad it was to not have friends.” From now on, don’t you think Monica will change the way she treats the new kids? If she changes her perspective, she will change her attitude toward others.
14. Our own views are often incomplete, inaccurate, and completely confusing, so we should not have a judgmental attitude toward others, nor should we see things in a fixed way. Our own views are not perfect, and we do not see all the facts and situations in a complete way.
15. You should keep your mind and heart open to new information, new ideas, and new perspectives. You should be willing to change your mind if the information, ideas, and perspectives you receive are wrong.
16. If you want to make a big difference in your life, the key is to change the way you look at the world, the way you see yourself. When you change the lens through which you look, everything else changes with it.
17. If you look closely (relationship problems, self-image problems, attitude problems), you will see that many problems are caused by one or two different perspectives. For example, if you have a bad relationship with your father, it is likely that both of you do not see each other clearly. You see your father as outdated. He sees you as ungrateful and damaged. In reality, both of these perspectives are incomplete and prevent you from being able to communicate effectively.
18. In addition to how you see yourself and how you see others, there is also how you see the world. You can ask yourself questions about how you see yourself. What is the driving force of your life? What do you spend a lot of time thinking about? What and who do you obsess over? What is the most important thing in your life, your perspective, your glasses, the center of your life.
19. The main things that come to mind in a teenager's life are friends, material things, enemies, self, and work. Because they focus on these things, there are good things, but they are not fulfilled in one way or another. If you completely rely on one thing to the exclusion of other things, you will suffer.
20. There is nothing better than having lots of friends, and nothing worse than being an outcast. Friends are important, but they shouldn't be the most important thing in your life. Because sometimes they change, sometimes they're fake. Sometimes they gossip behind your back. When you meet new friends, you forget who you are. You change your mind. You want to move to another place. And if you have friends, and they accept you, and they accept you more, you'll find yourself compromising your standards and always changing your standards to please your friends. Believe it or not, there will come a day when you realize that your friends aren't the biggest thing in your life.
21. Make as many friends as you can. But don't rely on them alone. They are like an unstable foundation.
22. Sometimes we measure the world by how much we own. We live in a materialistic world that teaches us that “the one who has the most toys wins.” We want the fastest car, the nicest clothes, the latest stereo, the best hairstyle, and many other things that we think will make us happy. We also want positions, leadership positions, theater roles, student leaders, and editors-in-chief. It’s not wrong to enjoy materialistic achievements. But we shouldn’t base our lives on them. In the end, these things don’t last long and have no lasting value.
23. Self-confidence should come from within, not from outside. It should come from the quality of your heart, the essence of your heart. You shouldn't rely on the number of things you own to build your self-confidence. People who say they die after having a lot of things are actually dead, right?
24. If what you own determines what kind of person you are, what kind of person are you when you don't have anything of your own?
25. Being independent is more attractive than being dependent, and you can be a better lover if you don't have to rely on someone else. Focusing your life on someone else doesn't show that you love them, it shows that you're dependent on them.
26. Your education is important for your future and should be your top priority. But being the teacher's favorite or being at the top of your class shouldn't dominate your life. Teenagers who focus on school only care about getting good grades and forget the real purpose of going to school. Thousands of teenagers have proven that you can be a good person in school and in other areas, and it's good to know that you don't judge your worth by grades alone.
27. The list of things that are important to you is long. Heroes, work, yourself, even your enemies can be important to you, but none of these, nor all of the other things, can provide the stability you need in life. I'm not saying you shouldn't strive to excel in dance, debate, or have good relationships with your friends and parents. You should. But there's a difference between being obsessed with something and being dependent on it for the rest of your life, and you shouldn't mix the two.
28. What should be the focus in life? It really works. What is that? It's the focus on principles, laws, and principles.
29. What is a principle? What is a principle? We all know about gravity. If you throw a ball, it will come back. It is a law of nature. There are laws and principles that govern the physical world, and there are laws and principles that govern the human world. These laws have nothing to do with religion, and they have nothing to do with nations like America or China. No one owns anything, no one owns anything. There is no difference between rich and poor, king and peasant, gender, all are equal, and cannot be bought or sold. To give you some examples - honesty, service, love, hard work, respect, gratitude, moderation, moderation, wisdom, integrity, loyalty, responsibility. There are many more, and they are easy to find. Just as the needle of a compass always points north, your heart knows the true principles.
30. If you follow the rules, you will excel. If you break them, you will fail. It's as simple as that.
31. Hard work is an important principle, a law. There are no shortcuts. You can't just play golf, play the guitar, or speak Arabic. It's impossible without hard work. Larry Bird said that if you don't practice at home, you can't do well in the game.