“Always prepare for the worst case scenario, then the rest will be easy”

(My apologies for the delay, I’m on the road this weekend and fighting for good cell signals)

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Finding out who you are, what your likes and dislikes are, and what holds your passions might be one of life’s best adventures – and sadly tons of people never take the ride.

Too many people live their lives based on what someone else think is best for them or to please some one besides themselves. Sometimes that may work out but often times people settle for less than their own wants.

You get to decide what makes you happy. You get to decide how you will spend your work week, who you will hang out with, and what you will do in your free time.

Some people find their answers later than others but at least they are looking. You should never settle for less than what makes you happy. Sure, compromise will come into play throughout life, but part of compromise is still walking away satisfied. If you aren’t satisfied then you have given up too much.

Find yourself, find what makes you happy, chase it, capture it, and indulge in it. Don’t be a nomadic soul.

The more obstacles you overcome, the stronger you become. Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving; you get stronger and more resilient.

– everyday life lessons

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– compliments of Women’s Day magazine

You spend the first part of your life working towards the necessities; you strive to graduate high school, then college, then to get a job, a house, maybe a family. But what happens when you meet prerequisites of life and find that you have time to spare? What do you do? Where do you go?

Some people get caught up and find themselves in a “midlife crisis.” Some people feel that college, family, and the norm is not for them and find themselves doing a whole lot of nothing. So how do you choose your next accomplishment?

Use some forward thinking and picture yourself much later in life. It’s a bit morbid but we soon realize that as we get older our knees hurt more, it takes longer to recover, and that beach body gets harder to obtain.

Will you look back with your aches and wish you would have run more? Will you look back and wish you would have tried sky diving? How long will you say “I always wanted to….”

You have one life to fill with as much awesome-ness as you can. If you want it there’s a way. Don’t be your own obstacle. Make it happen.

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– seen on Facebook

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“Work the problem”

Stop dwelling on what got you there and the “if I would have…” Assess the situation, and work with what you have.

You have the rest of eternity to criticize yourself. But only the act of you doing something will move you forward.

“The only difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is that successful people are willing to fail more than once to get where they want to be.”