1. If I make a mistake I do not beat myself up about it. Everybody makes mistakes but that is not to say I ignore it. I learn from my mistakes and make sure I do not make the same mistake again. Mistakes are inevitable but we should do our best to make sure we avoid them. If I make a mistake I will meditate on it to keep myself at peace. I remember my duty as a Jedi and make sure I learn from the experience.
2. If I come across something I do not know I can deal with I will be more careful and aware of what I am doing. But I will not give up on myself I will persevere with it until I can accomplish it. But although I will not give up I will not tunnel my focus, I will let it go as there is always another day.
3. When I am communicating with another person I will listen to what they have to say before giving out advice. I will wait till I understand the situation then give my advice. I look for information among the understanding. If I understand then the knowledge lies within it. It’s just a matter of finding it.
4. I will usually ask questions before sharing my own, but some questions have to be wary of as some people do not like to ask questions. Also I will ask relevant questions. Then I will share my own.
5. If I expect someone to do something and they do not I will not beat myself up about it. I may be a bit irritated but it will not be much of a problem, there is always time to try again. Just a matter of being patient and letting people succeed in their own time. Meditation will help take away the irritation.
6. If someone walks away I have a choice, I can go and do my best to stop them or I let them go and sort it out themselves. It depends on the situation, if I feel they will do something stupid such as take their life or hurt someone or themselves it’s my responsibility to help them get out of that state of mind. If it’s something little and they are just annoyed and frustrated best to let them go and let their anger out.
7. I am not a very angry person so I do not get angry communing with others.
8. I hear myself sometimes saying that’s awful or that’s great but mainly to other people. When someone comes to you with stories I suppose it shows them you are interested. But I use it on the occasion but I try not to over to it as not everything can be just awful or just great.
9. I find myself sometimes not understood but usually it comes clear to people within a matter of time. All I have to do is be patient and soon enough they will understand.

10.  Yes it is as it is putting forward bait to an argument, since it is an opinion there is bound to be someone who will disagree. Statements of facts are statements that give an opening mark for an argument.

11.  Fizzy juice is horrible.

12.  It is an assumption that the light will be green as you cannot predict something that hasn’t happened yet and could quite possibly be red or amber.

13.  Because we may not all believe in god. Indeed if you believe in god and that’s your belief then you can stick by it but we have our own views so saying we feel it to is assuming we all believe that to. No because I do not believe in god so I do not feel that way. However the force is not god, If the force was god then would there be any need for Jedi because we have Muslim’s or Christians so we would just be one of them to?

Mr Kelighan was my RMPS teacher in school. When he first came to my school and I saw him there was something curious about him. The minute I saw him I had some feeling about him. I didn’t know what or why I just knew there was something. The first lesson I had with him I had the same feeling but not much more information on him. After a few weeks I got speaking to him in class about my wrestling and he said he did martial arts and all. After that we started speaking often and he became my favourite teacher because we talked about similar things. Eventually I needed some advice from someone and I knew I could trust him. He helped me out and he became more than just a teacher but a friend. I look up to him he is kind to others, he is good for advice, very peaceful funny person. He is someone I can go to for help and I like that about him. He is very peaceful and caring.

I would very much like to be like him have the same kindness and love for things. I can see the potential in me and I know that the Jedi path will help me be more peaceful, caring, loving etc. Having these qualities would help me create more peace in the world and be able to be of better service to others.

 Obi-Wan Kenobi

Although he is not a real person the character I still look up to. Obi-Wan has such care and love for people I would love to have it, He treats an apprentice with such care like he was his own son. I would love to be like that. I would love to be able to pass on my knowledge to someone and have a bond like father and son. Obi-Wan also has a sense of humour and everyone needs that. Obi-Wan is also very wise and that is something I long for.

By being patient and learning from others I can become a loving, wise person who will be able to help and be of service to people. I hope one day to take on an apprentice and my Jedi path will take me there. Having these qualities would make me a better Jedi and keeper of the peace. Hopefully I can do this.

If money was no issue I would fish a lot more with my uncle. I would go to the gym more often. I like martial arts and self defence as it keeps my fitness up and is handy if I ever bump into a fight. I love spending time with my fiancé and taking her into to town and out for lunch. I don’t watch a lot of television I usually watch a little bit of TV before bed or if I watch a movie now and then but that’s about it. As a child I always loved playing with lightsabers with my friends. I liked playing with lego blocks I would spend hours building something just to tare it down and build something else. I also loved playing with action figures. When I was about 9 – 12 I liked playing trading card games such as Pokémon and yu-gi-oh. It made me think more.

Career

When I was little I always wanted to be an astronaut, I loved space still do. I also at one point wanted to be a builder. Not that long ago I wanted to be a fighter. I did wrestling for a little while but stopped because of my knees. There are a few jobs I wouldn’t mind doing for a career. One is boxing as I love boxing and it would be great to be like Muhammad Ali or George Foreman. I also wouldn’t mind being a Plummer as my step dad does it and gets good pay and I helped him out sometimes for a little bit of money so I got to know the work a little.

Education

If there were Jedi temples around the world and all I would like to focus more on meditation. I have often got bored with meditation because I did the same basic meditation for days on end. I would like to learn more meditation so I have more to chose from that I won’t get bored with. If you do one for so long it gets boring. Id also just likes to learn more about life, and about the world. History, Modern issues, morality, religion etc.

Personality

I have quite a confident personality I have my shy moments but they come only for a short few minutes. I have always been confidant, and that has helped me a lot with school and even just speaking to strangers when I go into a shop. My ten biggest strengths I would say are. Confidence, a huge imagination, cheering people up, not giving up on things or people, making friends of all ages and occupations, defence, listening to others, writing articles, not being to serious, being their for people. These are my strongest parts of me well what I can think of anyway.

 As a Jedi I will put all of these strengths into use, Confidence to me seems important for a Jedi so confidence will be helpful. Imagination is connected to wonder and wonder is one step to wisdom. Cheering people up will keep the peace, By not giving up on people I create unity and show love, By making friends I can bring more unity and peace to the world creating less chaos, Defence to defend myself and those who need it, listening to others to learn new things become wiser and show them I’m here for them. Writing articles to share my knowledge with other people and Jedi to help them learn, not being to serious as a person needs a sense of humour, “A person without a sense of humour is like a wagon without springs, jolted by every pebble on the road”. These strengths will help me as a Jedi as I have stated and hopefully I will do well on the Jedi path.

I was always mature for my age in some ways. Although I had a huge imagination I learned to not judge by race, wealth, age, gender sex or anything else that may be considered prejudice. I learned that quite young. I have always be one who likes being practical. I like practical activity but I also enjoy reading and study just as much. I was always one to play outside with swords and as a kid that was keeping my fitness up. But as I grew older I started going out for runs and working out in the garage to boost my fitness.

Since I was about ten years old I had learned about love quite quickly and although it seemed stage I was looking for that person very young but everyone else were still little children who didn’t know what love was. At the time I didn’t know much either but I knew what I wanted from it. When I was 13 I met someone and the relationship lasted 2 years before we split up. I thought it was love but it was not to be. But not long after that break up I found someone. I am still with her now and I believe it is love. We are engaged and I love her very much.

I have liked a lot of things in my life but there are a few things I still love since I was very little. I have always liked combat. I have always loved sword fighting, martial arts, boxing and any other kind of fighting. I enjoy going fishing with my uncle its very fun and relaxing. Out in the country with a line in the water, it always feels so serene. I like reading about religion and listening to peoples beliefs. I love learning new things. I love meditating when I can find the time to, keeps me clam and my emotions positive. I love spending time with my fiancé and talking about the future although I am mindful.

I believe in the force. I believe in no god but I do believe in energy. If anything god to me is the force but altogether I believe in the force. I live my life as peaceful as I can but I have my chaotic moments but hopefully it will improve. I try to keep the world around me as peaceful as I can. We need more love and peace in the world so I do my best to make it better.

Martial arts/self defence classes – keep a log of what I am being taught also keep track of how many hours I do it.

Regular attendance at a gym – keep a log of how many days I go a week and how much hours I spend. Keep track of what I’m doing at the gym and the reps that I do.

Undertaking regular exercise – Keep a log of the activities that I do and how many hours I done it for.

Undertaking a leadership – my school has a council that I had volunteered to be my class’s representative so I now am part of the council. The council is about looking at issues around the school and deciding what can be done about it. This gives me a say in what my class thinks should be done. I will keep log of what I have done in the council.

Course Work

Personal 101, Communication 101, Meditation 101, I think I should be able to complete these courses in about 1 – 2 months. If I need to take 3 then that’s no problem taking more time. I should be able to finish each booklet within a week or so.

Goals

Become better at controlling my emotions. – By learning about my emotions and how do deal with them this will benefit me in many ways. Helping me deal with situations without getting worked up about them or over reacting. With a little help from my mentor Streen this should help a lot.

Learn more defence – By learning more self defences I will keep my body in good shape and be able to defend others and myself if I ever need to. I could improve this by going to martial arts classes.

Improve myself – By learning all I can without tossing away any opportunities to learn this will enhance my knowledge and improve myself. Also by learning about myself and others I should be able to improve the world around me. By using those who are here for me and the Jedi I should be able to improve myself in many ways.

Become a Jedi Knight – By working hard at the academy and with my mentor becoming a knight will not be as difficult if I was training myself without an academy or mentor. Although I am more focused on the tasks and lessons the ranks should sort themselves out. The Jedi around me will be of great help for learning about the Jedi.

Be more at peace – By meditating and being able to control my emotions I should be able to keep myself at peace. If I am at peace with myself I will be a much greater Jedi and a better peace keeper of the world. Jedi training should make this easier.

Be a good person – By being of service to others and helping those who need it I should be a better person within myself to others. Being a Jedi will make this a duty and not just something I want. Again training should help me do this.

These are my six highest goals for the moment but I will update them every so often with any changes that I have made.

When I started writing down the question’s I notice quite quickly that they all had either who, what when, where or why. Asking open minded questions usually uses these words as it asking for information and not a yes or no. Using these questions is more beneficial for getting solid information and not weak yes or no answers.

I think the next for a Jedi is when asking for help or guidance not to ask close minded questions as it will not help them understand why. Example a Jedi asks “I feel useless, am I useless?” If someone says yes you are how will they know why? A Jedi should use open minded questions to receive understanding as well as knowledge, or when asking someone about something. “Is the town this way?” a person may say yes but you still won’t know exactly where up that way. However if you ask “Where is the town?” you get a solid idea of where the town is. Also a Jedi may be able to find out information for benefit of keeping the peace, finding out if someone has done something and not lied about it.

These exercises brought about the fact that we always have signs of lying and no matter what we do we will always have them as we know that we are lying. Also that a lot of us do not notice how much close minded questions we ask and although it’s not always a bad thing we should be asking more open minded questions and receive solid information rather that weak information.

I trust in my feelings for knowledge of right and wrong. If I feel I shouldn’t do something then I wont do it, however if I feel it is right I will do it. This to Jedi in my previous study is called the will of the force. Trusting their feelings as the force gives us knowledge of right and wrong through or feelings. If we do what we feel is right we are fulfilling the will of the force, but if we chose to do what we feel is wrong we are going against the will of the force.

Death to me is not the end. When we die we walk the path of death. Death is but another path we must take just as we took life. I do not believe that we come back to life but I rather believe we become one with the force. However I do not believe we should interfere with death as we should let it come naturally and not interfere with its natural course.

I do not believe in god or heaven and hell. A god to me is the force but heaven and hell are not in my books. I do not believe this as people say god chooses death for all people so if a person is murdered how can the murderer go to hell if god chose them to be killed? To me it doesn’t make sense. This is why I believe in the force and that when we die we just become one with the force.

Spiritual practice to me is when a religious person who does certain things such as meditation to improve the spiritual side of themselves. Spiritual practices are ways of improving yourself and strengthening your beliefs. I practice meditation to strengthen my connection with the force and to keep myself positive and take out any negative emotions.

 I also believe that one contrast cannot live without the other. Light cannot exist without dark, up cannot exist without down, yin cannot survive without yang. We need to have both contrasts for many different reasons. Let’s take yin and yang for example. We are constantly using both over and over, in many different ways. When we walk we use it, when we lift our leg up we are using yin and when we put it down we use yang. Also if we look at positive and negative, one cannot survive without the other. We have to have both positive and negative in our lifetime or we can miss out on valuable lessons. We need to have some bad times to learn things for example my overdoes story above.

 Another belief I have but is more of a concept is unity. I believe that we should all do our best to unite the world. Our world has a lot of chaos and darkness in it so unity can make less of that and spread more love to the world. Again looking at my overdoes story me having that experience got my united with my family maybe not physically but being able to love and cooperate with them. There is no problem that cant be solved through unity. Unity will bring more love and less chaos.

I had always admired people who create peace to the world and try to give people equal rights. I have been inspired by people such as Martial Luther King. I started seeking the Jedi path on the internet as I wanted to find out if I could be a keeper of the peace and be helpful to others and the world. I was in some way suffering from depression and I thought the path may help me become more positive. I first found training with a Jedi called Xhaiden. He taught me some valuable teaching but a short time after I was with him I went of the Jedi path. But a while after that I returned.

A Jedi is a keeper of the peace. A person who does his or her best to make the world a better place. A Jedi follows the Jedi code and is a follower of the force. A Jedi uses his or her power for knowledge and defence. A Jedi also always learning and does not throw away opportunities to learn new things as all knowledge is useful. I wish to learn all aspects of the Jedi and be as best as I can. I wish to use all aspects of the Jedi in my life and be of service to others and help those who need it. Jedi to me means one of the force and a person of peace. Jedi are keepers of the peace and follow the force.

 My goals are to learn as much as I can and not worry about becoming a Knight or anything. If I focus on the teachings the ranks will take care of themselves. Each day I will learn what I can and hopefully one day I shall become a Jedi Knight. My biggest challenge will be to keep myself positive as I have a lot going on in my life. But I will not give up.

 I feel inspired by what I have written and seeing what I can write has shown me that I have potential. I will do my best to be the best I can. Seeing what I can do makes me want to do more. Hopefully I can show more of the same results in further tasks to come.