My life, My choices, My problems, My mistakes, My lessons.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Excuses. We've all got a million of them. We find every reason under the sun to justify our inaction. We insist that the time isn't right. The weather is too cold. We’re too fat, too poor, too indecisive, too this too that... To be frank for a minute, they are people who are living like they are literally waiting to die.  They have very little  ambition, no drive, no sense of purpose. Somehow, they have allowed life’s circumstances to beat them down, to kill their spirits. They have bought into the lie that their dreams don’t matter. If plans don’t pan out the way that they’d hoped, they take it as a sign that they are being unrealistic; that they are reaching for the unreachable. They become easily discouraged, not realizing that the race really isn't given to the swift but to the one who endures. You've heard the old saying that sometimes we’re our own worst enemy. There’s a lot of truth to that. Once we allow fear to permeate our thoughts it takes on a life of its own. 

Surrounding yourself with people who look at life in a more positive way can become infectious.  They can show you all of the possibilities that life has to offer.  You will begin to get a new sense of yourself and notice that things can become less cloudy, less uncertain.  You will find that things actually get easier when you believe in yourself.  Like attracts like, so if you are around negativity, you will become more negative and vice versa. Try to seek out the good things that life has to offer but know that not everyone is happy to see you prosper.  Some people rejoice in another’s misery, but you can’t let that stop you from trying to attain your goals. So start doing whatever it is that you've always wanted to do. If it’s big enough to dream about it’s realistic enough to go after it.

Sometimes, you have to let go of friends you've outgrown and find other like-minded who share a love of the same things that motivate and inspire you.

        

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