You Have to Believe

In the past few weeks I have found a few motivational videos on YouTube that are amazing. I have been showing them in group and individual sessions. I had one of my clients bring this in and the client wanted to share it on the blog. I really like it and hope that it helps the client that wrote it and anyone else who needs to believe. 

You have to believe in yourself to achieve your dreams life doesn't wait for you ,you have to want what you can get and if you don’t you will fail failure is an excuse we make for ourselves when we don’t get something right the first time when we don’t understand something the first time and that’s why when that happens you keep walking you keep moving you keep dreaming you keep believing and you don’t stop until you have achieved every dream you have ever wanted and when you’re at your wits end and you don’t want to keep moving

When you do something wrong and you get a lot of crap for it and people yell at you and tell you that you should know better that’s when you know! That you are working your hardest because everyone else knows you are and want to see you succeed! Then you know you are not alone there will always be someone who shares the same dream you just have to be willing to go out and find them not everyone will appreciate who you are there are going to be people who push you down and crush you to the point of giving up and you choose to let that happen or you choose to let it lift you because it doesn't matter what others think of you if people say you suck your trash your worth nothing then you be the one to say I am doing my best and that’s all that matters cause at the end of the day if you feel like you have accomplished something if you feel happy about how your day went you will know with the surety of a higher being that you can succeed

 you will succeed and nothing will stop you no one can stop you, you are a force of nature that can’t be stopped and won’t be stopped if people tell you your awesome that your inspiring that you are  the stuff the stars are made of then you let that raise you up higher than what you can reach alone cause life was meant to be lived to its fullest extent and you aren't here to just waste your time away your here to show what you can do to make yourself better and to lift other people up as high as their lifting you

and if you don’t say thank you and you don’t say I’m sorry once in a while you will find yourself  not being satisfied you will feel as low as low can get and when you hit rock bottom I want to hear you say I know I can because there is no such thing as I think I can if you think it you still aint doin it because with ought the action there is no achievement I want to see you go for your dreams remember we are all of us in the gutter but some of us are looking up at the stars if you refuse to look then you are choosing to refuse to believe it doesn't matter what you have done or what you did what matters is that you choose do better from then on from now on

 If you accept the feedback people give you then you will be better for it people have to think that you care before they care what you think. you think you know how people feel you think you know what has happened in people’s lives you think you know everything well guess what you don’t the only thing you know is who you are and who you want to be I want to see you say I feel for you I understand you that’s feeling empathy that’s knowing you have had to deal with the same exact situation people have to know that they are loved it’s our biggest weakness we have to be noticed and appreciated if we aren't then we choose to give up

why ,why does giving up come up so much there is no excuse for giving up it’s all a simple choice it comes with free agency you are free to choose but you are not free from the consequences of those choices the sooner you accept that the sooner you will know that you are on your way to success.

Message from our Peer Leader

We have started a new thing here at Turning Point. We have a Peer Council and the Peer Leader or President will update the blog with activities and more of a personal view on the happenings in the program from a youth's perspective.
Here is the first update:
Weekly Events:
Turning Point Family care has came up with new things that will help the youth take more charge of what is going on in the facility. We created directors so that youth can learn leadership and self discipline.

The goal of president/leader is to help out the directors and assist them when they need the help. He is also in charge to make sure they get their duties done.
The goal of the service director is to have one youth be in charge of setting up service for the youth and must have four hours weekly.
The goal of Activity Director is to set up protocol activities for the level three and up therapy levels. He is in charge of off campus activities and helping to plan the longest day as well.
The goal of the PRS Director is to teach the youth social skills that will help the youth with skills that they will need to return to society. They will facilitate PRS groups with the help of staff.

Longest Day: 10-16-2014

The youth had an 18 hour therapy day. For breakfast they had pancakes and bacon with over easy eggs on the Camp Chefs. Then the kids went to two elderly homes to do community service and spent  hours helping them out.
The kids then came back and went to the rooms and wrote resumes for what position they wanted. As I mentioned above there are directors and that is what the requests were for. Afterwards we had Sharon’s group about being positive and what it means to be positive? Then we made brochures that talked about our selves. After we were done with that we went around and each youth had to write down one positive thing about another youth on the brochures. Then we did a jump rope exercise that helped us practice our teamwork skills. And the staff went against the youth to see who completed the task first. After the jump rope we split into three groups and each team did their own Dutch ovens.  Once we got done with the Dutch ovens we started a hike. that ended at the base of three peaks.  After that we had a fire and spent time  talking about what the youth needed to let go of. The things that we wanted to let go were thrown into the fire.

As a youth, I thought that this was one of the best longest days that we had and I thought that the youth got along really well for the most part. I hope that we do this sometime soon again. I loved the food and the activities that we did.

Halloween Party

Paint pumpkin: 11:00The first place prize will get candy Twinkie, soda—Second place will get candy and Twinkie---Third place will get candy.
Pumpkin pie contest: 2:00
The person that wins will get a Twinkie
Pumpkin search 4:00p.m.
There will be 4 groups of teams and we the group that can find the most gets, will get a Twinkie and a soda each.

Dinner 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Movie- with candy, popcorn, soda and Twinkie: 6:45 p.m.