Success

There are a lot of things we need to improve if we want to be successful in life.

First of all we need to be very self-disciplined. Discipline is really important because we would not achieve anything without it. For example if you are used to wake up late every morning you’ll notice that your day will be very short so it is not enough day to do the all the tasks you need to do. So it is important to wake up early if you want to progress at the things you need to do.

To be an optimistic person is a requirement. If you always think you won’t be a successful person then you will never be a successful person. Don’t let the critics get your optimism down. Some people will try to criticize the things you do with the only intention to harm you.

If your goals are big you will need to be perseverant. That is because big goals are not achieved in one day. In fact, you will need months or even years to achieve this kind of things. So you will need that internal force coming from you that lets you keep trying every day no matter how hard it would get. Remember that light bulbs weren’t invented in one day.

Another thing I would like to talk about is talent. I really don’t think it is necessary to be very talented in order to be successful but talent could be the difference between being “good” and being “the best”. It is good to know that in order to be successful most of the times it is enough if you are good at it. You will need to be the best only if you want to break a world record or something like that. But the advice I give you is try to get aware about which are the talents you have and then exploit them.

So if you want to be a successful person don’t forget that it is necessary to make certain sacrifices and you must do a lot of effort. Don’t forget to exploit all the talent you have and if you are not talented at the things you want to achieve don’t worry, it really doesn’t matter at all.

Comments about songs

Life for rent – Dido:

This song talks about a person who is afraid to get involved in a serious relationship because of the pain suffered if the relationship fails.

The person says that she always loved freedom and traveling and never thought about things like settle down but she is really puzzle because she now feels strange. I think she now feels the need to stay with that person she knew.

She is concerned because she feels like she never will fall in love and she says that the reason of that is that in her early years she never had a home enough time to get used to it and settle and make friends and everything else, but maybe she is afraid to get in love with all that it involves.

Evidently she feels like she will be ok if she keeps her heart shielded against every intruder but she regrets of it because she thinks that she is not really living her life and she is wasting it.

Good bye Alice in Wonderland – Jewel

Jewel’s song is about a girl who grew up in show business living a life with all the inconvenience found in show business, like living in hotel rooms because of the tours, being completely alone and living a fantasy where everything is far from realm.

While she was living this fantasy life apparently she fell in love with someone who betrayed her and then she started to understand that she was trying to find in him something she never had before and he didn’t gave her, real love.

Before that she started thinking that this kind of life wasn’t what she expected and she felt so disappointed. Because of this she decided to leave show business and start to live a real life without all the fake things she was living before.

I think this is a very well written song that makes us think about the things we have done in our life and if it is what we wanted to be. Also tells us that it is never too late for a change.

Smokers found more prone to dementia

Comments about a NYT Article: Smokers found more prone to dementia

With this image I ilustrate the quote I put last week: “Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken”.
A new study reveals that middle-aged smokers and heavy smokers are at more than double the risk to develop dementia later in life.

It is incredible all the bad things we listen everyday about the dangers of smoking like lung cancer, passive smoker diseases, addiction to nicotine, poor athletic performance, troubles in familiar finances and so many other things that makes us think smoking is the worst thing a smart person could do. Nevertheless a lot of young people start smoking every day, a lot of middle-aged people smoke one, two or more cigarette packs a day and a lot of old people are just trying to deal with all the diseases they carry because they were smoking on their youth.

The article I present here show us another reason for stop smoking. Obviously none of us want to be a lunatic so I hope this little homework could help somebody with his smoking problem before it is too late.

The research analyzed twenty-three thousand people and twenty-three years later the results tells us that a quarter of the group had dementia, including here the ones who have Alzheimer’s disease and the ones with vascular dementia.

It gets clear from the article that the more a person smoke the more damaged he can be. And it is well known that the people that surround a smoker get very damaged too with the same problems that affect a smokers.

Article:
Risks: Smokers Found More Prone to Dementia
By RONI CARYN RABIN
Published: October 29, 2010
Middle-aged smokers are far more likely than nonsmokers to
develop dementia later in life, and heavy smokers — those who go
through more than two packs a day — are at more than double the
risk, a new study reports.
Researchers analyzed the data of
23,123 health plan members who
participated in a voluntary exam and
health behavior survey from 1978 to
1985, when they were 50 to 60 years old.
Twenty-three years later, about one-quarter of the group, or 5,367, had dementia,
including 1,136 with Alzheimer’s disease and 416 with vascular dementia.
After adjusting for other factors, the researchers concluded that pack-a-day smokers
were 37 percent more likely than nonsmokers to develop dementia, and the risks went
up sharply with increased smoking; 44 percent for one to two packs a day; and twice the
risk for more than two packs.
Former smokers and those who smoked less than half a pack a day were no more likely
to develop dementia than nonsmokers. The study was published online on Monday in
Archives of Internal Medicine.
To its lead author, Dr. Rachel A. Whitmer, an epidemiologist with the Kaiser
Permanente Division of Research in Oakland, Calif., the study offered a silver lining:
unlike age and family history, she said, “this is one risk factor for dementia that can be
changed.”