Teenagers, college students, and young adults just getting started in their careers are the future of the world.  As in generations before them, they are the energy that brings life to the world.  They are thinkers, workers, creative, and loving people.  We are excited to see the changes in the world that they will bring.

Often times, usually an older person will say something like, “the problem with kids today,”  and then they finish with whatever you can think of such as, “they are lazy,  they need discipline,” etc.   However, the interesting thing is that the person saying these things had very similar statements said by his generation when he was a young adult.

Life is much the same, and yet it differs.  It is the young people of the world that can topple dictatorships and punishing regimes.   It is the young people who never listen to someone when they say he cannot do something.  It is the young people who appreciate their life and want to always make things better.  It is the young people who embrace change, rather than resisting it – for they cannot see the logic in resisting change.

Change is the energy of the universe that flows through everyone and everything.   The younger generations let that energy propel them into invention and thought.  Yes, all generations have their share of people who prefer to do as they are told and to follow the orders cast upon them, without thought.  However, it is also the people in each generation that moves the world forward in positive ways.

Rather than looking at this next generation of doctors, scientists, and workers as lacking, we need to look to them with the thought of wonder and amazement.   What you believe is what you see.  If you think that every teenager today is lazy then that is what you will see and experience.   However, if you have an open mind and think, “I wonder what these kids today are going to invent and do to make this world a better place,”  then you will see all sorts of things in that area.

If you are of this younger generation and maybe are in college studying a field of interest to you, you need to understand that you can do whatever you can imagine.  To imagine is the first step in creation.   If you are just entering your career after high school or college, you need to do whatever it is you do to the best of your ability.  Be it hammering nails on a construction site, or making food for others, you need to do it with intention and do the job to the best of your abilities.   Everything is important and deserves your attention to detail.

The same statement is true for all generations.   When we work we need to give it our undivided attention, and perform our work with the greatness for which it deserves.  When we give our work, the attention that it deserves we help make this world a better place.   Find the reason and the benefit of whatever you are doing and make an intention as to the outcome of your work.

When you are in school, it is important to understand that you are there for many reasons.  Learning, and education is certainly the main reason, but there are many others as well.   Understand that when you are in a class, you need to give the instructor and the material she is teaching you your undivided attention.   There will be time later for play, but when it is time for work and learning, you need to accept that.  The interesting thing is that when you devote your energy to one and only one thing at a time, you spend less energy doing the work to learn.  The same is true for anything.

This concept of “multi-tasking” is a difficult one.  For we believe that it is best to figure out what deserves your attention at this moment, and then focus ALL of your attention on that one thing.  Distractions and the “chatter of life” only prevent you from doing anything and encourage immobility.  When you can give whatever it is you feel deserves your attention,  a 100% of your attention, you will have clarity and find that you complete your tasks at lightening speeds.

Life is not about who is better and who is worse.  When you learn to measure yourself by not “measuring” at all, but understanding that who you are is no accident and that you are perfect, you will see there is no need for comparisons.

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This younger generation will go on to do great things, just like every generation before them.  Embrace them, encourage them, and certainly make sure they continue to imagine the greatness within them.

Written Wed Jan 8, 2013, 7:49 – 8:05 AM