Text Box: Dorm Living News Text Box: The Thoughts You Choose Text Box: Where your mind lives is where your life is headed. What you think about most willingly, when you have nothing else you must think about, will define the direction of your life. No matter what may be happening in the world outside of you, you have the power to choose your own thoughts. And the thoughts you choose can have an enormous impact. When all is quiet, when the necessities of the day have been tended to, when your mind is free of any constraints, what kinds of things do you think about? The thoughts you have at such times, the thoughts you choose to think, Text Box: are the thoughts that will show you who you truly are. Steer those thoughts away from anger, limitation, worry and envy. Direct your mind toward thoughts of love, possibility, confidence, abundance and generosity. Whatever may be going on in the outside world, your mind can live precisely where you choose for it to live. Choose to let it live in an empowering, life-affirming, rich and creative place. Choosing the life you want begins with choosing the thoughts that will direct you to it. Those thoughts are yours to choose this very moment. Text Box: If you are a teenager, chances are that you have considered taking up smoking at some point. About 3,000 teenagers pick up the smoking habit each day in America, or roughly one million new teenage smokers per year. About 60% of all high school students try smoking by the time they are seniors. That means lots of new smokers, and it also means there's a good chance that you or one of your friends is smoking right now. If you understand why teenagers start smoking, chances are you won't smoke. It is sort of like a magic trick. The first time you see the trick it looks really cool and mysterious. But then if someone Text Box: tells you how it's done it's not mysterious at all anymore and the trick loses a lot of its appeal. Smoking works the same way. Let's start at the beginning: why do teenagers start smoking? If you ask teenagers, here are the four most common reasons: group acceptance, image projection, rebellion, and adult aspirations. The problem for many teenagers, and for nearly every teenager who smokes, is that the choices are not conscious decisions - they are reactions. You can go back and change many of these decisions later, but smoking is not

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