Casey's Corner: How Kids Can Have Better Moods & Attitudes!
If you knew that you could control your mood and attitude at all times, would you want to know how? Well, you can control your mood and attitude and I'm going to give you a few examples of how I've applied this in real life situations.
You know how some mornings you just wake up in kind of a bad mood? Maybe you didn't sleep well the night before because you couldn't stop thinking about random stuff or maybe you don't really have anything positive or fun to look forward to in that day. Well, that was ME and I used to hate those mornings so I'd take it out on my parents, friends and pets. What I didn't realize is that when you let those circumstances control your mood and attitude, you end up damaging relationships with people you love and that is completely avoidable if you just take personal responsibility and make the conscious decision to control yourself.
Instead of taking my mood out on people around me, I've learned to control my mood and attitude. In the past few months I've just made the decision that I am going to be happy and positive even through bad times. I told myself that I was going to have a positive outlook on life and just got into that mindset of being optimistic about stuff. Because who honestly wants to be around the person who's always complaining and being negative?
I don't know about you, but I don't let other people control my mood so why would I let a circumstance of life control my mood? I wouldn't, but sometimes circumstances are hard to deal with so you first need to learn how to deal with disappointment. So what, you don't get the video game the second you want it or your Mom decides to fix something you don't like for dinner? You don't always get what you want and instead of reacting irrationally in the moment I like to take a few minutes, go to my room, listen to some music, calm down and come up with a solution to the problem. Try it sometime, I guarantee if you control yourself and your attitude, you won't end up getting in trouble and losing things.
Sometimes when I play guitar at clubs or I speak to large groups of people, I get down after I'm done and get back to the hotel room. I think it's because I get a certain rush of excitement, energy and anxiety when I speak or perform in front of people and then It's over all of a sudden, and you lose all that feeling and it's like what do I do now? I've started to give myself a time limit on feeling down... last time this happened I said to myself "Okay, you have 24 hours to get over it and move on."
One of the first steps for me in changing my attitude towards life was to stop meditating on negative thoughts and the negative things people have said to me. I choose to meditate on the positive thoughts and comments. So instead of thinking about the one person who said I'm awful at writing without giving any constructive criticism, I think about the compliments I received that day and that lifts my mood.
If you do something wrong and get in trouble for it, think about it for a bit, examine what you did wrong, what you can do differently next time and move on. You can't constantly think of negative things you've done or the negative things in your life and expect to live a happy life.
It's not easy to go through these changes and the hardest part for me has been the mental side of it. It's really hard to just say, "I'm not going to let people or circumstances affect my attitude or mood." But if you want to live an extraordinary life, it must be done.
Since I've started to control my emotions, mood and attitude, I've realized a huge difference in my life. I've become a much happier and secure person inside and I've seen the relationships in my life improve dramatically. It's a change that's worth every bit of work and time involved.
Casey Martin
Calm Kids™ Student Assembly.
Students listen when a teenager challenges them to control their own emotions and take responsibility for their lives. Kirk and Casey Martin give kids very specific action steps to deal proactively with stress, bullying, peer pressure and sibling issues. Read more about Casey's Student Assemblies: http://tinyurl.com/2bld6na
If you knew that you could control your mood and attitude at all times, would you want to know how? Well, you can control your mood and attitude and I'm going to give you a few examples of how I've applied this in real life situations.
You know how some mornings you just wake up in kind of a bad mood? Maybe you didn't sleep well the night before because you couldn't stop thinking about random stuff or maybe you don't really have anything positive or fun to look forward to in that day. Well, that was ME and I used to hate those mornings so I'd take it out on my parents, friends and pets. What I didn't realize is that when you let those circumstances control your mood and attitude, you end up damaging relationships with people you love and that is completely avoidable if you just take personal responsibility and make the conscious decision to control yourself.
Instead of taking my mood out on people around me, I've learned to control my mood and attitude. In the past few months I've just made the decision that I am going to be happy and positive even through bad times. I told myself that I was going to have a positive outlook on life and just got into that mindset of being optimistic about stuff. Because who honestly wants to be around the person who's always complaining and being negative?
I don't know about you, but I don't let other people control my mood so why would I let a circumstance of life control my mood? I wouldn't, but sometimes circumstances are hard to deal with so you first need to learn how to deal with disappointment. So what, you don't get the video game the second you want it or your Mom decides to fix something you don't like for dinner? You don't always get what you want and instead of reacting irrationally in the moment I like to take a few minutes, go to my room, listen to some music, calm down and come up with a solution to the problem. Try it sometime, I guarantee if you control yourself and your attitude, you won't end up getting in trouble and losing things.
Sometimes when I play guitar at clubs or I speak to large groups of people, I get down after I'm done and get back to the hotel room. I think it's because I get a certain rush of excitement, energy and anxiety when I speak or perform in front of people and then It's over all of a sudden, and you lose all that feeling and it's like what do I do now? I've started to give myself a time limit on feeling down... last time this happened I said to myself "Okay, you have 24 hours to get over it and move on."
One of the first steps for me in changing my attitude towards life was to stop meditating on negative thoughts and the negative things people have said to me. I choose to meditate on the positive thoughts and comments. So instead of thinking about the one person who said I'm awful at writing without giving any constructive criticism, I think about the compliments I received that day and that lifts my mood.
If you do something wrong and get in trouble for it, think about it for a bit, examine what you did wrong, what you can do differently next time and move on. You can't constantly think of negative things you've done or the negative things in your life and expect to live a happy life.
It's not easy to go through these changes and the hardest part for me has been the mental side of it. It's really hard to just say, "I'm not going to let people or circumstances affect my attitude or mood." But if you want to live an extraordinary life, it must be done.
Since I've started to control my emotions, mood and attitude, I've realized a huge difference in my life. I've become a much happier and secure person inside and I've seen the relationships in my life improve dramatically. It's a change that's worth every bit of work and time involved.
Casey Martin
Calm Kids™ Student Assembly.
Students listen when a teenager challenges them to control their own emotions and take responsibility for their lives. Kirk and Casey Martin give kids very specific action steps to deal proactively with stress, bullying, peer pressure and sibling issues. Read more about Casey's Student Assemblies: http://tinyurl.com/2bld6na
