His speech titled “Just Do It” is a concept and philosphy I think most if not everyone should live by day in and day out. This speech was given at the National Religious Broadcasters convention in 1987.

I think this is probably one of the most memorable if not one of the top speeches ever given. In better words, you can make money or make excuses, but not both. Just do it. Enjoy the video.

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A favorite quote of mine sums up what I’m trying to get across in a simple yet powerful statement:

“Many a false step was made by standing still” – Pattie Labelle

What does this mean? Potential. Everyone has the potential to change anything in their life, it’s a matter of taking the first step or taking action. As Nike would say “Just do it”.

I will have to make a bold statement, and say that everyone’s greater plan in life is to fulfill your true life purpose whatever it may be, and to make other people happy while enriching the lives of the people around you. Everyone has a beginning and end, and as a living individual it is inevitable that one day our time will come to an end as well. As Jake Sully put it in the movie Avatar:

“All energy is only borrowed, and one day you have to give it back”

Do you want to be remembered or forgotten? Do you want to be remembered as the guy with a lot of money or the guy who enriched other peoples lives and paid it forward to those who were deserving after you die. That is up to you. I know when I die, I don’t want one person at my funeral. I want to leave a legacy and be remembered as the guy who changed other people’s lives.

To be able to see the opportunity around you, you must change your way of thinking. It’s a way to break past all the limits people put on themselves, and start living life the way it should be lived. You can do anything you want in life, and move past all the rules people have implemented, which are only “fake” rules hindering people from moving on. You can achieve anything you want. That is a fact. No one is holding you back saying “You have to do this”. There are two choices to every decision. And ultimately that decision is yours to make.

People say there are multiple “realities”, or in simpler terms other possible life paths – multiple worlds with different outcomes and events based from the decisions you made in life. But the one world you’re in is where your conscious is in this exact present moment – the now. Don’t ponder or regret choices you’ve made in the past, it will only put a bigger burden on your life. Concentrate on moving forward in the present and making the right choices so your future can be enjoyable.

Now what if you had the chance to go back to other life state or “world” to take back a choice or capitalize on something you wish you could have (i.e., invest in Microsoft or Google), to become rich. Would you take that initial step and take the risk? Who knows, everyone is afraid of failure. And failure is the one thing which limits most people from taking that initial first step. Don’t be afraid of failure, take it as a learning opportunity to improve upon.

The only thing school teaches you is how to work and survive. I don’t want to be working the rest of my life just to survive. I want to work on something I love and live a life of freedom.

To do this, one of the main things I will emphasis on is get outside of your comfort zone. Every single day you should do or try to do this, because there is nothing great you’ll ever achieve while inside your comfort zone. Think of all the great things you’ve accomplished or achieved. It was because you were outside of your comfort zone. And guess what? When you accomplished these goals of yours it was probably a feeling 1000 times better than what you thought it would be.

In parting words, here is a quote from Oscar Wilde:

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination”

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Since I’m a Philosophy major (and hate it for the most part), I find myself thinking a little more outside the box for some reason. Two years ago this would have never happened, but then isn’t now. After taking Philosophy course after course, there are some topics which are really interesting such as Philosophy of the Mind and Space and Time. Other courses, well, lets just say their topics aren’t that interesting and would rather be in prison than siting through the lecture. Well let’s just get to the point and discuss what is normal…

What is normal? It may be dressing a certain way, driving on the right side of the road, saying polite gestures and excusing yourself when needed. Institutions in today’s society have made it almost impossible to do the exact opposite of what is accepted (because everyone is doing it). But, what if…What if everything we were doing was wrong. What if we weren’t suppose to sleep everyday for 6-8 hours for a period of time, and just sleep in intervals of 20-30 minutes every 4-5 hours (polyphasic sleeping). What if Christianity wasn’t the “right” religion and atheism was. What if we were suppose to live in a world where everyone lives in equality and there were no jobs or money. Think of a world where everything is the opposite of what you think is normal.

Everyone today is afraid to live ‘outside the box’ and be ‘different’. That is because we either wouldn’t be accepted or liked. Everyone today needs to stop worrying about everyone else and start worrying about themselves more. I fall victim with coming to conclusions about people depending on what they do, wear, or act. You need to do what makes you satisfied, happy, and in the end, what makes you, you. This world shouldn’t be made up of categories of wrongness or rightness, and people shouldn’t be left in the corner because someone doesn’t believe what they are doing is ‘right’.

We all live in a world where Religion has inscribed a set of laws whether it be Christianity, Islam, Hinuism, Judaism, or even Atheism. Most wars throughout history have been fought because of religious beliefs or of some other sort relating back to religion. In the end, do we even know whos religion is right? We are all reading a book where there is this “Ultimate Being” who did marvelous things, but there is NO evidence to prove any omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent being ever existed. Sure, there may be artifacts but how can we know what is true and what isn’t? What if…the world was created and everyone was supposed to be atheist? What if there is no promise land where everyone goes when they die?

For all we know, death could feel like sleep to us. We never know when we died, and it would be like we were in a coma. Or we could have posited a different life form in this world, or even other worlds. For all we know there are hundreds of other worlds out there just like ours and we were ‘test subject 14986′ which had a certain flaw, lets say, lying. So we were left in this big universe to die off, however long that would take. Imagine that ‘test subject (world) 19854475′ was the world “God” made and turned out to be perfect. Now this world crawling on your hands and knees is what everyone does instead of walking on their feet, and lawns in your front yard were always dead because that is what was ‘right’. Think of the most outrageous stuff happening and this is the “perfect world” “God” wanted to create. However, uniqueness was the right answer. People dressed with hair as clothes, drive ostriches around, shake feet instead of hands, etc. Think of there being no murder and rape, and that everyone lived their life freely without corporate influence based off profit and losses.

We don’t even know if we are really living or real. How can we say or even prove that we existed 2 days ago. For all we know God could have created us 1 minute ago and put all these memories, thoughts, and records in our mind and in actuality, have been only living for 1 minute. Weird I know, but it could be possible. What I’m trying to say is nothing is normal. Even the most bizarre stuff in this world could have been what was suppose to be ‘right’ (e.g., eating people, prostitution, etc.); all the horrible stuff you thought was wrong. So what I’m trying to say is, be yourself, and don’t let anyone dictate who you are or want to be.

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After you read my last post about Obama, you probably think that I am a hard core republican who is against everything that Obama represents. You’re wrong, I like Obama and think he will be a very good leader for this nation and will represent us well. And if you already didn’t know I was kind of bitter with all the things George W. Bush was doing in office (running up national debt and not pulling out of Iraq). However, after reading Lone Survivor my views drastically changed.

If many of you don’t know already everything is liberal–whether it be our news at 9 at night, to movies we watch, or newspapers we read in the morning. Everything is one sided and skews the way we think and perceive things. One of the main topics of this book was that people don’t really understand what is going on with the war and think we are murdering people without reason or cause. Another point that is pointed out is that many people think that there were never weapons of mass destruction. This is all wrong. We are in war, and innocent people die no matter what. Regarding the weapons of mass destruction, what people don’t understand and realize is that they may have had a nuclear program going on underground somewhere which we couldn’t locate. You may be asking yourself what does that have anything to do with what is going on right now. This would mean they were trying to produce weapons-grade uranium-235. This you get from spinning uranium-238 from a machine which drives the heavy neutrons outward. It is a long process and takes up to seven years to complete, and with no mistakes all trouble free, you can cut off the outside edges of that uranium which you can now call uranium-235. Once you cut that in half and put the two pieces together with high explosives, you have bombs. And it is Hiroshima all over again.

I would rather go to war now to prevent a nuclear war from occurring in the future, which could be started by some crazy nut case like Saddam Hussein or Osama Bin Laden. Marcus Luttrell, also points out that SEALs, along with other people enlisted in the army, navy, marines, and other special forces teams are afraid of being charged with murder. This is because of the rules of engagement which basically says that you aren’t allowed to shoot unless they have a weapon on them. They have to be actively engaging you. Which means that Taliban or people who hate the United States, could be carrying AK-47s and explosives hiding them while walking their camels or mules and the next thing you know you’re dead.

We have all these suits and higher ups giving the people fighting for us orders, and then charging them with murder. Most of these people have never experienced war or even killing a human being. Most of the people making it worse are the people on the news. These douche bags don’t do anything but blame everyone and over exaggerate the little shit (I’ll get to this later). It’s not them in the front lines fighting for their country face to face with a gun. What they don’t get is that your LIFE is on the line. Why would I wait to shoot someone if they had a gun pointed at me? That is ridiculous.

Now, the reason why Marcus Luttrell’s men all died was because of these rules. They were camped out on a mountain waiting for their target to leave. Out of no where three people came up on them with all their sheep. They were debating on killing them because they knew it was the right thing to do. You never know if these people are part of the Al Queda or Taliban, and most cities over there are under their rule. So most of the time people have to report anything suspicious even if they aren’t Al Queda or Taliban. Long story short, they let these three people go (even though they saw the hatred in their eyes) because they were not murders, and didn’t want to be portrayed as murders with the liberal media, when the plain fact was that they were saving their lives. Next thing you know, there are 150+ men walking down the mountain behind them looking for them. If Marcus Luttrell and his men would have killed these three sheep herders, most likely than not they all would still be alive today. However, the fear that the liberal media would exaggerate and skew things out of proportion is what lead them to let sheep herders go.

More behind the scenes view is that the Al Queda and Taliban know all our rules of engagements and exploit them. If anything happens such as “3 sheep herders” found dead, they would quickly release to the middle east press that “American soldiers murdered 3 innocent people”. The thing is, they may have looked innocent, but in this case weren’t. But the American Liberal media wouldn’t know any better, pick up on this “BREAKING NEWS” and report something along the lines “SEAL team of four brutally murdered three innocent sheep herders, and now should be convicted of FIRST DEGREE MURDER”. And they would go on having this discussion how the republicans let our military run around like wild animals killing everything in sight, when in reality they aren’t. They are just saving their OWN lives.

In the end, we can’t let the liberal media run our lives. We also have to do what is best for ourselves. This is probably just one story out of hundreds which are told. I would probably hate George W. Bush still as much as I did about a year ago unless I had read this book. I know he may not speak very well in public, and I know he has probably made some mistakes in office. But when it comes to our own people, I know he wouldn’t put their lives in danger unless it was necessary. George Bush did what was necessary to protect our nation. And most people are to illiterate or dumb to understand the complexity of what is going on around the world today. George Bush has to make decisions on things that are harder than anyone could imagine, and which the majority of us could probably not make in a lifetime. He does this knowing that he could be affecting the future of this nation, as well as millions of people around this world. He has the toughest job in the world, and I applaud him. Only he and 43 other people know what it is like to make decisions like this.

Just like in the Dark Knight, George Bush is the Hero the United States deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we’ll hunt him because he can take it. Because he’s not our hero. He’s a silent guardian, a watchful protector. He takes all the blame, and most people will understand later, just not now.

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