To anyone with kids of any age, here's some advice. (Words of Advice from Bill Gates)

Life is wonderful, but it is also challenging at times.

Bill Gates gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school.

In his book, Bill Gates talks about how feel-good, politically-correct teachings created a full generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.

I want all of you to be very successful, so consider some of his words:

RULE 1......Life is not fair; get used to it.

RULE 2......The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to  accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

RULE 3......You will NOT make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice president with a car phone, until you earn both.

RULE 4......If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

RULE 5......Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity.

RULE 6......If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

RULE 7......Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parents' generation, try "delousing" the closet in your own room.

RULE 8......Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades; they'll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

RULE 9......Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summer off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.

RULE 10.....Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

RULE 11.....Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

化"擔心"為"祝福" (推薦必讀)

這是輾轉看到的一篇文章：

一位做電視企畫與採訪的朋友告訴我，常常需要加班，日夜顛倒。   因與家人同住，所以他媽媽常會擔心，常唸他：要記得吃飯，別太晚睡，開車要小心等等，這樣的嘮叨每天反覆好幾次，朋友已見怪不怪，習以為常。
只是有時朋友也會覺得不耐煩，一見到母親就想逃，免得聽她囉嗦半天。
有一次朋友赴花蓮採訪證嚴法師，聽到證嚴法師說一句話，他覺得很有道理。

  
她說：「如果一個父母常常擔心他的孩子，他的孩子會沒有福氣；因為福氣都被父母給擔心掉了。」 

師父又說：「如果父母希望他的孩子有福氣，就要多多祝福他的孩子，而不是擔心她的孩子。」

  

朋友聽到這樣的話十分興奮，一回到家馬上轉述證嚴法師的話給他媽媽聽。 朋友說，從此以後，他母親就很少再對他嘮叨了，他看到母親也不會再躲，反而在下班之餘，會找母親聊聊天，他覺得現在他跟母親像朋友一般自在。

  

媽媽常常是一家的靈魂人物，她掌握了一個家的家庭氣氛，我相信：如果沒一個快樂的媽媽，就很難有一個快樂的家庭。

然而，大多數的媽媽都過份地擔憂子女：課業，工作，婚姻，健康---幾乎無所不擔心，你想這樣的媽媽會快樂嗎？ 

用超心理學的潛意識說法，就是所謂的「心想事成」這句話。

  

一件事情如果你用很大的「念力」去相信它，它就會如你所相信的去「實現」你相信的。  

一個媽媽如果相信：她的孩子有能力去面對他自己的生活困境與難題，那麼這個相信就是一個「祝福」，而她的孩也會因著這樣的祝福而蒙福的。 相反的，如果一個母親老是「覺得」她的孩子不懂事，不會照顧自己，一定會吃虧上當的， 那麼這個「擔心」很可能就成了「詛咒」，以後你的孩子果然就會如你之前所擔心的那樣，老是出狀況令你擔心。

你的願有多大，實踐的力量就有多大!!! 

從今天起，我們當要當心去檢查自己的每個「念頭」，

你對孩子：是擔心多？還是祝福多呢？

真的，愛你的孩子，與其擔心，不如祝福吧！

其實對於我們所關心的人，不管是家人、朋友、情人、恩人、師長、同學、同事等，也都要給予全部的祝福來取代擔心的心情，

這樣，不用因擔心掛念而讓自己睡不著，就是雙贏囉！ 

因為，心想事成!!!