Tips on Life.

How much are you in control? Your personality is set and really nobody can change it fundamentally, even you. It’s made up of genes and environmental influences from your parents to the area (suburb, country) you grew up in. What you were taught shaped your beliefs but how you reacted to those things was determined by your inner nature. Your personality was more or less in place at about age seven. But the finishing touches will be made while you are in your teenage years. You have a lot of control over this.

Maybe you don’t know it but you’re in a game. Or would you rather think of it as a movie or a book? Either way, you get to choose which way the plot will unfold. Whatever you do today will have some effect on your future. YOU are writing the story line from now on.

You don’t have total control, but not one of us does. Nevertheless you are the centre of your own story. That doesn’t mean you can rape, pillage, always get your own way and kiss yourself to sleep at night. Everybody else is the centre of their own world too. So if you’re going to get the best for you, you have to help others get what they want as well. Cooperation seems to be the best way to get lasting benefits out of life.

The world can be a rough place if we are all competing. Immoral, back stabbing, cheats make it even harder. For a time they get what they want but they make enemies along the way. One of those enemies is going to topple the ruffian.

The brute is the animal, the guy who hasn’t grown up, who doesn’t understand. He is simple so he goes for the simple way. He lets his frustration out on others with brutality. He is trying to write his own story but going about it the wrong way. Somebody else will write his story by taking the power away from him.