You must change things up. 

How can you expect to get a different result when doing the same thing over and over again. 

Try something new. Test a different assumption. 

Do not be scared as to second guess yourself. 

If it doesn’t work you can always go back to what it was before. 

Stop speaking to yourself in negative terms. 

Don’t engage in berating yourself. 

You wouldn’t accept it from anyone else. 

Why is OK for you to do it?

Stop talking down to yourself because it doesn’t serve you.

It’ll leave you scarred deeper than any knife wound. 

You know better than to put anyone down. Most of all you!

We all slip and fall. 

Failed at something in which we have poured our life and soul into. 

Yet we go at it again. Falling, failing, getting up again.  Over and over.  Again and again. 

Why?

What is it that drives us to try again?

People begin to look into us as crazy even mad. In their minds they think, “Why continue or even bother?”

But we cannot stop and won’t. Because there is something inside of us telling us we can’t. 

We’ll keep going. Trying again. Over and over. 

When the time comes will you be able to look back and say, “I lived a good life.”

Feeling proud of the family you helped raise. Of all the accomplishments made. 

Are you going to look back with a smile at all the failures and lessons learned?  Knowing you did your best. 

Will you be able to look them in the eye and say, “Thank you for sharing your life with me.”

Which best describes your attitude….

Good things come to those who wait.

Or 

Fortune favors the bold. 

These two axioms seem to be opposite of each other but they are both requiring something. To wait or be bold. I’m not much of a standing around waiting to see if something happens. 

Because we all know…

The future belongs to those who create it. 

And

No books have been written about cowards. 

Beware the lies you tell yourself. 

Finally reunited with my best friend

Who’s always there for me right to the very end

It’s been a while since we caught up with each other

But I don’t worry because we’re always in step

Know each other inside & out

We’re like ink to paper

Lines to sheets

Pages to notebooks

My journal is as much a part of me as my breath

Capturing all my thoughts

Secrets, dreams, goals, & more

Saving them for me to peruse later

Reflecting

Enshrining them today for my offspring tomorrow 

This journal like those of past and future are a glimpse into my mind and soul

Wants and dreams 

Failures and successes

They hold a snapshot of the present state

A peek into who “I am”

Depending on others to fix your problems isn’t going to work. 

It’s not in their interest to fix your problems. They have their own. 

Only you can find the solution to the problems in your life. Only you can fix them. 

You can definitely bring in extra hands to help or develop a plan but in the end it’s up to you to fix the problem. 

Every problem has a solution. Perhaps the way your thinking of the problem is the problem. 

Most of us are taught knowledge is power. To know more is to be more. 

The truth is knowledge without action is a waste. Action trumps knowledge. Now put them both together and you could be a powerhouse. 

To many waste their time learning all their is to learn. While one guy down the road just starts doing it and learning on the way. 

Please don’t waste what you know. 

When yo think you cannot affect change is exactly when you should get started creating it.