{"id":4413,"date":"2011-07-12T09:18:44","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T15:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/\/?p=4413"},"modified":"2011-07-12T09:18:44","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T15:18:44","slug":"peeking-into-the-future-what-do-you-see-for-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/peeking-into-the-future-what-do-you-see-for-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Peeking Into the Future, What Do You See For Yourself?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Living in the Moment is Okay, but Keeping an Eye Ahead is Smart<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Your future has already begun influenced by the choices and decisions you have made.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As a youngster today, you\u00a0are constantly asked to live in the moment.\u00a0 Advertising and marketing grab your attention and pull\u00a0you toward the here and now.\u00a0 The implication is that life revolves around\u00a0fun and immediate satisfaction with a blind eye toward planning and responsibility.\u00a0 The future?\u00a0 Worry about that later.\u00a0 Do this today, buy this today and look like this today are unavoidable messages and we are seeing the toll these are taking on your fellow teenagers.<\/p>\n

Granted, there are some things worth living for\u00a0in the moment — a swim, movie, vacation, hooking up with friends are things you want to get into and have fun doing.\u00a0 If not, how would\u00a0you be capable of feeling joy and pleasure, both of which are important to living a full life.\u00a0 But, ignoring the future for the sake of instant gratification is a mistake which can result in a ton of wasted opportunities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It must seem that you are at a crossroad daily with the options you have and the decisions to make.\u00a0 Your choices, even the ones which may seem insignificant, create the person you are and will become.\u00a0 Making good ones will set you up for a rewarding future.\u00a0 Making poor ones will send you spiraling down to places which you will not want to be nor ever\u00a0envisioned yourself being.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0The friends you hang with, the\u00a0amount of attention you give to academics, the work ethic you put toward projects and practice\u00a0will become a big part of predicting the quality of your future life.\u00a0\u00a0 Life is never altogether easy.\u00a0 You will encounter your share of disappointing times and\u00a0outcomes.\u00a0 That’s reality.\u00a0 But, by making sound, well thought out choices now, you can make your own future brighter and less painful.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Consider for a moment the adults around\u00a0your school and\u00a0community.\u00a0 Examine their current lives.\u00a0 Observe their behavior.\u00a0 They arrived where they are not by accident, but by managing their lives from as early as their teenage years.\u00a0 They made good decisions along the way which put them in the positions they are today.\u00a0 You can do the same thing and arrive at a similar place in your life.\u00a0 But, it is vital that you begin giving your future some thought and start to put a vision together of what you see yourself being as an adult.\u00a0 Then, keeping that dream alive and a constant part of your thinking, you can inch closer to achieving your dream every day with every choice you make.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Living in the Moment is Okay, but Keeping an Eye Ahead is Smart As a youngster today, you\u00a0are constantly asked to live in the moment.\u00a0 Advertising and marketing grab your attention and pull\u00a0you toward the here and now.\u00a0 The implication is that life revolves around\u00a0fun and immediate satisfaction with a blind eye toward planning and … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}