Not a long post..

Just wanted to really quick recap my weekend by saying.. S*N*O*W*D*A*Y, then we won our bball game then i went sledding today! woohoo it wasnt a very long time cause i had to be home for din-din (dinner) but then after that i pretty much just sat at home and waited then watched some of the closing ceremony of the olympics.. ANYWAY i have a good thing to think about..



What if you were an olympic skier?, what would it be like to go down racing everyone elses time and just thinking what you had to do next to win the gold... What would that be like to visualize the course and see yourself going down it? what could that feeling possibly be?
Quote:
Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude. ~Ralph Marston

Snowday/saturday

I forgot to post on friday i cant remember what i did hat night but i ran out of time to post.. oh ya i went over my friends and watched Zombieland.. for the second time! (best movie in the world) Anyway so im posting for today and yesterday..

PS, Candice is afraid of whales so she didnt really like the picture well sorry bout that i just thought it was a cool picture.. cause i like whales... but ya

So today we won our basketball game! woohoo i think the final score was 42 - 27 or 32 or something so we are 5-0! i had my first 2 points on the season.. ya i dont really shoot that much cause im not that great of a shooter but on the more positive side i had about 6 steals so i have maybe 10-12 steals on the season! also i think i had maybe 4 rebounds today. so i was a good game, the other team played a good game as well but we came out on top!
As for friday (S*N*O*W*D*A*Y) i didnt really do that much, i just kinda sat at home played some video games then i went to the Rec. to shoot some hoops.. and my friend came over.. that was pretty much it!

Oh yea random question.. did you guys/girls like that quote.. i thought it was odd and sorta out there but i laughed when i found it.. just wondering.

So anyway im going to wrap this up because its time for me to go to bed!

Quote:

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

-Max Planck, Nobel Prize-winning physicist

i like this quote alot. it really spoke to me when i was looking up quotes i thought it was a good one and that everyone would enjoy seeing/reading it!

Last: The picture is a pic of hawaii and i just thought it looked cool and it was a good view and why you should always keep a positive attitude because there are beautiful things out there!

Snowday?

So tonight im just really quick posting and saying yet again that i hope to post a long one this weekend cause im not really doing anything special. So anyway its snowing alot and i hope that tomorrow we have a snowday (but i doubt it)

Quote:
Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus. ~Susan Longacre

Wednesday

not a long post today. just was a good day, and im watching some tv then im going to bed so i hope to post more tmrw.
quote:
Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb

tuesday!

sotoday is tuesday and i wanted to say what a wonderful tuesday it is/was. tonight i have bball and i cant wait. its always fun. so today i wanted to share something that i found on the internet last night.

The Power of Positive Attitude

by Remez Sasson

Positive attitude helps to cope more easily with the daily affairs of life. It brings optimism into your life, and makes it easier to avoid worry and negative thinking. If you adopt it as a way of life, it will bring constructive changes into your life, and makes them happier, brighter and more successful. With a positive attitude you see the bright side of life, become optimistic and expect the best to happen. It is certainly a state of mind that is well worth developing and strengthening.

Positive attitude manifests in the following ways:

Positive thinking.

Constructive thinking.

Creative thinking.

Expecting success.

Optimism.

Motivation to accomplish your goals.

Being inspired.

Choosing happiness.

Not giving up.

Looking at failure and problems as blessings in disguise.

Believing in yourself and in your abilities.

Displaying self-esteem and confidence.

Looking for solutions.

Seeing opportunities.

A positive attitude leads to happiness and success and can change your whole life. If you look at the bright side of life, your whole life becomes filled with light. This light affects not only you and the way you look at the world, but also your whole environment and the people around you. If it is strong enough, it becomes contagious.

The benefits of a positive attitude:

Helps achieving goals and attaining success.

Success achieved faster and more easily.

More happiness.

More energy.

Greater inner power and strength.

The ability to inspire and motivate yourself and others.

Fewer difficulties encountered along the way.

The ability to surmount any difficulty.

Life smiles at you.

People respect you.

Negative attitude says: you cannot achieve success.
Positive attitude says: You can achieve success.

If you have been exhibiting a negative attitude and expecting failure and difficulties, it is now the time to change the way you think. It is time to get rid of negative thoughts and behavior and lead a happy and successful life. Why not start today? If you have tried and failed, it only means that you have not tried enough.

Developing a positive attitude that will lead you to happiness and success:

- Choose to be happy.

- Look at the bright side of life.

- Choose to be and stay optimistic.

- Find reasons to smile more often.

- Have faith in yourself and in the Power of the Universe.

- Contemplate upon the futility of negative thinking and worries.

- Associate yourself with happy people.

- Read inspiring stories.

- Read inspiring quotes.

- Repeat affirmations that inspire and motivate you.

- Visualize only what you want to happen.

- Learn to master your thoughts.

- Learn concentration and meditation.


Following even only one of the above suggestions, will bring more light into your life!


ithought that was really a good way to put it. epically the last sentence!

so thats what i wanted to share today!

Quote:


The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations. ~Eli Khamarov, Surviving on Planet Reebok

Monday the... 22nd!

Today wasnt very exiting, not much really happened. went to school, had academic challenge then went to the rec to work out. but im tired so im going to bed really early tonight

and i was gonna put a link today but it kept redirecting me to another site about 50 times. so forget that, anyway...

qutoe:

Make your optimism come true. ~Author Unknown

Whats today... Sunday?

ive forgotten it was sunday... whoops!! so anyway today i was having fun with my friends then i went to laser tag so it was a pretty good day!

anyway my basketball game:

cavs V.s trailblazers 30-30 overtime. two minutes left. tip off cavs ball, 2 min remaining. goes up and down the court for 1 min. offensive charge. now its 5 seconds left to go (i know i skipped alot but thats cause i dont remember what happened) cavs - 32 trailblazers 33. 5 seconds left we go down and with 1 sec left shoot a layup. cavs 35 trailblazers 33... the crowd goes wild..

and thats how the game ended. it was an amazing game by both teams but we came out on top! 4-0 baby. UnDeFeAtEd!

anyway not much goin on this week. hoping to sit down for about 30 min one day and post a really long one. thats my goal this week.


QuOtZ:

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence. Helen Keller

Another day!

today im just saying that ijm going to post more tomorrow late in the afternoon about how my bball game goes because i have to go to bball plictures then i have bball then im going over my friends house so ill post tomorrow!

Quote:

Use your talent (everybody has one) in anyway you can. Don't keep it for yourself like a miser - spend it like a millionaire! Lucy MacDonald

News News News

WOW, as i watch the 10:00 news all i see in the first 5 minutes is a women who murdered her 2 year old... then tiger woods apology.. sheesh people talk about negative! my god. if only there was a channel of news where all they talked about whats whats going on thats positive in the world (dont steal my ideas now!) i would watch it every day to learn new facts about the world and whats going on but i mean COME ON. all negative. no positive. Anyway. so today i lost my debate =[ but thats alright. they had a good debate (i think the judges were bias) but no matter! i asked my teacher if we could have another debate and pick our topics this time. but if you dont already know my topic was video games are bad for kids. but i had the negative so i was ACTUALLY saying why they are GOOD for kids.

one of the arguments was that video games reduce your time you spend with your family.. but i mean comeon. one time when i had my WII i had 3 of my bestfriends families over and we had a WII BOWLING TOURAMENT. does that sound like reduced family time... i dont think so! ANYWAYS..... (im starting to sound like the news, blah blah blah negative blah blah blah negative)


well i have to go to bed now cause its getting pretty late. tomorrow is b-ball.!

Quote:


So often time it happens, we all live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key. ~The Eagles, "Already Gone"

Cheer up day.

woohoo. i officially declare february 18th cheer up day!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWNoiVrJDsE

great youtube video. it gave me goose bumps!
just wanted to officially declare it cheer up day. also tomorrow i will be posting if i win/lose my debate! im exited! WooHoo


Quote: If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. ~Mary Engelbreit

Smile today! (like the cat... BIIIG SMIILEE)

So today me and candice had a good laugh. because i was on the phone with her and we remembered a show we watched when i was maybe 7 or 9. we thought it was the funniest thing. the people would run around the supermarket and they had to find the designated item, whenever we watched it we had a blast. the show was called supermarket sweep! woohoo.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSwmFurzkpQ


anyway so thats what made my day was laughing about that. so todays quote.

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. ~Hubert Humphrey

when i first read this i thought it was kind of a sad quote... but then i realized that it really isnt. "It's what you do with what you have left" i think that this quote should be famous! its a very good quote about how to live your life to the fullest.. When life gives you lemons.. Sell them for cash!, just kidding, i think we all know how that ends!

REMEMBER TO SMILE TODAY!

OK!

ok so this morning wasnt really feeling so good =[ but im feeling better now! after basketball and im watching some office about to eat a cheesecake! So something on the positive side i almost have 150 views on my blog! woohoo, also i have 6 followers. anyway i just wanted to say a quick thing about how my day was. cause i have some other stuff to do. my internet browser hasnt been working so i have to convert everything to Firefox.

Quote: Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

i thought that this was a really good quote. i loved it, i think everybody who reads it will smile!

Thanks for viewing today! dont forget to tell your friends :D

im back!

Sorry to everybody who reads this daily. our internet hasnt been working lately, then it started working but i didnt know my password so thats why i havent posted in a few days.

ANYWHO! today (and the past 3 days) were great. today i went to Dave and Busters.

So today while i was at he rec center working out somebody told my dad that he had motivated them o work out a little while because he was in such good shape so i thought that was cool.

that just shows that no matter what your doing. if your doing it right then people will appreciate you/what your doing

last really quick i just wanted to post this article:

No one said it was going to be easy, the day you were born. Your mother never said that life would be a breeze and it will be clear sailing without any struggles, risks, or obstacles to overcome. Instead, you realized that things might not always go your way. Even as an infant, you got hungry, thirsty, bored, tired, sick, cold, hot, constipated, upset, startled, scared, confused, and frustrated by a myriad of circumstances you couldn't possibly comprehend.

As you grew up, you began to understand how you could control certain elements of your environment, yet still suffered from all the troubles I just listed. Even as an adult, we are subjected to these same issues that invade our lives. It appears that life is, and shall remain, a struggle until the day we die. It's how we cope and view these incidents that determine our character and the quality of our existence.

It's all about our attitude. With constant news reports about catastrophes striking every country in the world, how can we feel good about ourselves? There are starving people, natural disasters, political strife, warring nations, terrorism, pollution, health concerns, and over-crowding, both local and nationally. The news apparently is never good.

Add to that, daily confrontations with employers, store clerks, other drivers, and family members, you get the picture. You face a never-ending sea of bills, relationship challenges, and on-the-job dilemmas. Where will it end? Only at death, I'm afraid and some depressed individuals have already decided to end their lives sooner than later. But, for the rest of us that face these facts of daily life, what are our options?

We have to accept why we are on this planet in the first place. Assuming we have only one crack at a lifetime, we get to make the most out of it as possible. Through our own free will and perhaps some divine intervention, we control our fate. We can choose to allow the constant bombardment of negativity ruin our psyche, or ignore the obvious taunts and move forward with a good attitude. It's takes a commitment and constant effort to overcome the flow of obstacles, but it can be done. It begins with the simple things.

Do you smile a lot? Well, you should. Practice at smiling at everyone you see, whether a total stranger you pass in the supermarket aisle or your postman. Saying a kind word at the appropriate time, is even better. How's your sense of humor? Do you like to laugh? The cycle begins when you look and feel good about yourself. Surround yourself with other positive people, while divesting of the negative ones. When someone starts to offer critical feedback in a discussion, politely tell them that you prefer not to continue that particular topic. You can decide to change the subject to something more constructive.

We all have the naysayers that love to harp on life's darker side. It's time to put them aside and focus on people with a good outlook. Just like the negative news, these folks will bring you down. I dread those phone calls and now try to put a good spin on bad news. It's the old art of turning lemons into lemonade.

I relate those events back to the myth of the Phoenix bird. After a life of 500 years, it appears a tragedy is to occur when the bird builds a giant pyre of fire jumps into the inferno. But, later, after being consumed, a baby Phoenix emerges to begin a new lifespan with a renewed sense of optimism. We should all learn from this act.

Out of seemingly impossible situations, new opportunities can arise. This forward-thinking outlook can guide our thoughts and deeds at every juncture. Remember, we have this one life to survive and we are entrusted by our creator to do the best we can. I would imagine that the purpose of our existence is to create, not destroy, to uplift, not to put down, and to leave it a better place than where we found it.

How would you like to be recalled when you have passed away? As the old bitter, person that never had a nice thing to say about anyone or anything? Or as the positive, upbeat person, that embraced life and lived it to the fullest, thereby positively impacting everyone with whom you interacted? It's your choice while you're living.

If I've touched a nerve and got you to think about being a more positive person, then great, because you can make a difference from this moment on. Just get out there and feel good about yourself. Treat yourself to something decadent like dark chocolate, a new pair or shoes for the lady, or a power tool for the gentleman, because you deserve it. Hey, did I just catch you smiling?

Jeffrey Hauser was a sales consultant for the Bell System Yellow Pages for nearly 25 years. He graduated from Pratt Institute with a BFA in Advertising and has a Master's Degree in teaching. He had his own advertising agency in Scottsdale, Arizona and ran a consulting and design firm, ABC Advertising. He has authored 6 books and a novel, "Pursuit of the Phoenix." His latest book is, "Inside the Yellow Pages" which can be seen at his website, http://www.poweradbook.com. Currently, he is the Marketing Director for thenurseschoice.com, a Health Information and Doctor Referral site. i didnt read this whole article but i read most of it and although it seems negative at the beginning it gets more positive.

Day 23

So today is day 23.. it dosent seem like it has gone that fast but time flies when your blogging!

anway i just wanted to say that i had a good day and that ti will be posting a longer post soon but today im watching the olympics!

QUOTE:

Every day is a good day

--Colton--

Thursday...Again!

Soo yesterday i said i would say more about my day today! so yesterday i took a reading comprehension test and i got 14/14. 100% woohoo so that was really cool. ANYWAY today i was hoping for a snowday but i didn't get it. which i wasn't surprised. but tomorrow i have bowling after school so i hope that goes well and im aiming for a high score of atleast 115. Anyway i just wanted to say one thing. Positivity = life. wow.. what a sentence! and although thats not my quote it is a good value to live by. even if you are a negative person i hope that my blog is helping you become more positive! so last. tomorrow i will post what my bowling scores were and i might go over my friends house to watch Zombieland so ya.

Quote:

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: Motivational Quotes about Life

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

there's always tomorrow

i am going to bed early to hopefully wake up tot a snow day tomorrow. ill post more tomorrow about my day today and what went well.

quote:

Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching? ~Dennis and Wendy Mannering

Tuesday

so today (this might be really random) bu i figured out something. The more mad you get about something the worse you do in it! so why be negative if it'll have a negative effect on you. Also in language arts we are doing a project where we have to debate other people (within the school) about topics and my group has "Video games are good for you" and i think this is an interesting "article" or subject to discuss. so when i do my debate on the 18h or 19th ill post how it went and the whole debate.. so look for that ahead (by the way, we have really good facts to support our side) Here is a sample of one site we are using: http://www.pri.org/science/technology/benefits-of-video-games-1741.html

Pop star Rihanna gaming on an Xbox. (Image: flickr user: gamerscoreblog (cc: by-sa))

A host of new studies show that video gaming might actually improve visual skills and increase brain capacity.

The following is a partial transcript; for full story, listen to audio

Turn off the computer and go outside and play! We've all heard the conventional wisdom that says video games will turn your brain to mush. But a host of new studies show that gaming might actually be good for your health.

Researchers at Nottingham University found that playing certain video games could achieve in one hour what eye patches achieve in 400 hours; while researchers at the University of Rochester found that first-person shooter video games improve visual skills by increasing the brain’s capacity to spread attention over a wide range of events.

But wait, there's more! The Mind Research Network in Albuquerque, N.M., found that Tetris players developed a thicker cortex than those who didn’t play. And the Nintendo Wii has been helping Parkinson's patients improve balance. So, are video games good for you?

Baratunde Thurston, host of "Popular Science's Future Of," a TV show on the Science Channel, says video gaming has more positive effects than you might think.

He says the research shows that there are several benefits to video gaming. "There's the social; There's a new sort of storytelling format, and the way of interacting with other people. It's a mental workout. It's fun, and there's also the ability to destroy things," said Thurston.

Technology writer Clive Thompson, the blogger for Collision Detection and a frequent contributor to "Wired" and "The New York Times," says some of the studies support the mental workout that players can get from the games.

"There's been studies that show for example, if you play Tetris a lot, it increases the white matter in your brain. And the more white matter in your brain, the more efficient you are at doing certain types of thinking.

"And there's been other studies that show surgeons -- laparoscopic surgeons -- if they play video games before they do surgery, they actually have almost 40 percent fewer errors. I's sort of getting their hand-eye coordination up to speed before they do a delicate task like that."

When gaming involves multiple players, it encourages both teamwork and individual effort.

"It's a little society and you learn to be a member of a society with the values and reputation and cost that goes with it," said Thurston.

The idea that gaming might improve certain skills shouldn't be too surprising, since pilots and astronauts have long been trained in video simulators.

"The idea that games could affect your behavior is intuitive because all sorts of areas have used them to train people in doing things quickly, said Thompson. "The thing that's really interesting is that the research has started to branch out to look at these unexpected ways that games might be good to you.

"There's a piece [of research] that came out earlier this year that completely fascinated me, which was the idea that you could us Tetris to treat post-tramatic stress syndrome. Now people think that PTSD as something that happens if you go to Iraq, but it most often happens if you've had a car accident. And what they discovered was if you get someone to play Tetris for 45 minutes or so after a car accident, it might seriously decrease the amounts of flashbacks they have. Essentially it occupies the visual cortex so much that you don't take all those flashbacks images of being in a car accident and read them into your brain as well."

But, Thompson says, there is still that side to gaming that isn't so positive. "Video games are designed to be very addictive. People pay tens of millions of dollars to make these things as addictive as possible. So it's absolutely true that the great danger with them is you'd rather play them than eat."

"The Takeaway" is a national morning news program, delivering the news and analysis you need to catch up, start your day, and prepare for what’s ahead. The show is a co-production of WNYC and PRI, in editorial collaboration with the BBC, The New York Times Radio, and WGBH.

So thats just how we are doing our debate.

thanks for reading

Quote:

"You can think best when you're happiest" -Peter Thomson

(last is i hit 100 views! WOOHOO! i have 105... 104 of them from the US one from India)

marvelous monday!

so today was a pretty good day because ihad somebody tell me i was a good person! so that made me feel really good and boosted my morale a little bit. ALSO i googled my name and first was my myspace and then the second/third link was my blog so thats pretty exiting! LAST thing thats exiting is that i have 99 page views so im about to hit another marker!

anyway thanks to all the people who have viewed and commented on my blog!

Quote: I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”

– Hellen Keller

Yesterday i completley forgot to post cacuse i had a basketball game and then i went and slept over my friends house. ANYWAY, we won our basketball game over the nuggets 28-24... so now we are 2-0

just wanted to make a quick post for today. also this one is for today and yesterday because i have family over and we are preparing for the super bowl! w00t! GO SAInTS

quote: negativity gets you no where

Today was a good day!

today was a pretty good day. not to much going on but i had a good school day then i went bowling and got a like 100 or 101 or something and now im going to the mall so i just wanted to say that i had a really good day and nothing much going on.

last i had an example of being positive or more rather a personal experience.

When i started working out 2-3 months ago i weighed 90 pounds and could max out at about 70-90.

NOW 2 months later i weigh 110 pounds and i can max out at 145 pounds so thats good/positive thing about my life. So anyway i think that if you are positive toward life then life will be positive toward you, and thats my quote of today!

If you're positive toward life then life will be positive toward you.

--Colton--

just a real quick tuesday

just a really quick thought today.

just saying that i thought it was funny cause as i was watching The Office i caught myself smiling not really cause i thought something was funny but because ive connected with the characters in that show and i would have never thought that you could smile without knowing it. so thats my learning of today and thats me keeping positive!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkeAzqhlkNk

if you watch American Idol then you've already probably seen this but i still think its hilarious

Quote: If you catch yourself smiling then i guarantee your a positive person

--Colton--

Wednesday For ket-chup

So today i wanted to say that i COMPLETELY forgot to say the score of my basketball game on Saturday which we won 33-26 over the bobcats, i had no points and no shots but i had 2 steals so thats on the positive side.

Also i forgot to say to my sister GOOD LUCK AT SCHOOL, she just went back to California and actually she started school on Feb. 1st so congratz to her.

Anyway i found or thought of rather a good example of positive attitude while i was watching TV. I was watching The Biggest Loser last night and i saw these people who were 300..400 pounds and i thought to myself "They may be overweight but they have the power to choose how the handle it and they are handling it with a positive attitude and making a difference." So as i say this i say this for just about everything else in life. It is all about how you look at things, i know i ALWAYS go back to this example but the glass half Empty/Full. if you look at it half empty then you are choosing to look at it in a negative way. Now my question to the people who look at it that way.. Why? why look at the glass half empty when you could join me and millions of other people in the world who live a positive life and look for the positive in EVERYTHING!

Also-last i just wanted to say that in school we are debating about certain things and in MY opinion i dont think that there is anything to debate about being positive or negative.

Quote:

A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself

--Jan Christian Smuts--

Today is tuesday. so last saturday i landed on my wrist funny so i dont get to go to basketball.

but im sure my team will do awsome tonight! so tonight i get so stay home, ice my wrist and read

i have to go, sorry again ihavent made a very long blog yet but im working on it.

thanks again to everyone who reads my blog every day and also have a nice day!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUWGBQsnz-I

Quote: If you have half empty glasses for a week then you only have 7 half empty glasses where as if you have 7 half full glasses then you have 3 and 1/2 full glasses

Day 13!

Well! day 13 it is. So yesterday while i was checking to see how many people had visited my blog i found that i had a view from India, i thought that was cool and it brightened up my day a little more! so today just wanted to say that i had a great day and check out this youtube video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7hBoa75YRs

thanks again to everybody who has been viewing my blog daily and thanks for the positive comments!

quote: You come to a fork in the road, one sign says Negative and points left, the other sign says Positive and points right. The sign in the middle says "Make sure you choose the right path" What road would YOU take?

--Colton--