A lesson on peer pressure

I always thought that peer pressure was something that waouldnt be too big of a deal for me to handle. I always was the kind of person who did things only when they were the right things to do or was something that my mother approved of. Turn's out that im just as susceptible as everyone else, worse still it slmost cost me $500 to learn that lesson. I say almost because i consulted my mother immediately after i paid up for this venture and got my ass handed to me in the form of a scolding. First a bit of background the venture is a network marketing campaign featuring travel packages at great discounts. I was introduced to it by a new acquaintance and i got so swept up by the potential to it and the urgings of the people around me that i signed away $450 on the spot. I thought that it would be so easy for me to get people to sign up and i would be rich very soon. Back to the scolding, My mother highlighted to me the fact that i was never the type of person comfortable in social settings. Worse still i was extremely bad at socializing and making friends in general. The business required me to sign 4 people so i wouldnt have to pay monthly premiums and about 60 people before i was seeing any sort of return on my investment. After my social skills was highlighted by my mother i realized my circle of people who would actually sign up was non-existent and i didnt have the time or charm to get new people to sign. It was also around this time that i realized that my arrogance, my over-estimation of my own social abilities and skills made me jump into something that i had absolutely no idea or ability to sustain and grow. Thank goodness i could get a refund within 40 days. Im going to use that money plus a little more on another venture that pays me on the spot, which is much more secure and does not rely on my social skills to earn me money. Moral of the story is that my arrogance, my over-estimation of my own abilities led me to invest in something i had no idea about and that my arrogance as well made me forget these hard truths that my mother has always warned me about. My mother would have never approved of the venture and in my folly i had forgotten that and caved in t peer pressure and greed. This is a lesson that i will take to heart.

First post and a hard truth

Having lived for 18 years and a few months, ive had my fair share of teenage angst and exagerated sense of self-worth and ability. Im not saying im Mature! Im the furthest thing from being mature or even wise. But ive always had a tendency to do deep thinking and it's recently while i was at the gym that i realized something. I have been arrogant and lazy for most of my life and it has cost me alot of things that would have been very beneficial to me today. Not to mention a very low fitness level, that has came back and bit my ass so hard it tore a chunk out. So ive learned that being humble is a way of life that i should strive towards and that might not sound like such a big lesson but it was a huge blow to my ego to find out that i was not as good as i thought. The other thing would be Discipline. Laziness and arrogance put together is a potent cocktail of self destruction that works fast and does not leave the system willingly. So i must learn to be disciplined and humble. Easier said than done really considering my inability to order my thought and go off on tangents most of the time, which is a very big sign of how much discipline i have. I have more to share cause i have many more lessons to learn. I hope i can stick to this blog long enough that i will be able to help myself become a better person and hopefully right some wrongs that ive committed.