Personal Advice

Do not keep your life stagnant for a few shallow challenges around you that add nothing to the end value of who you want to be. Pick where you want to be in three years and make decisions accordingly. You can not straddle a fence when it comes to the decisions that determine the outcome of your life. Treat people around you like the real side of life, not like a second mother.... it is okay to say "Wow boo boo, that's rough, get your OWN life together" You can encourage them from the side lines not from being a part of their chaos or in the case of the opposite sex, INSIDE OF THEM... literally.

Your company is more than who you pass empty time with, if picked properly, their lifestyles will encourage you to straighten yours out as desired. It goes a long way, don't waste time around people.. There is 7 billion people in this world, I'm sure you can find another.

Energy

I find myself often times preaching to people about going after their dreams and fulfilling all of their life's desires. What Im beginning to notice is that we tend to focus on the rags to riches part of success, not the decisions it takes to actually walk through the door of success. You must be aware of the door, and take the steps to walk through the door. The door never repositions itself to put you on the other side. As I have said before, we can get taken up in the wave of motions of those who surround us. Assist yourself in moving towards your goals by surrounding yourself with people with the positive motivation that you require. Their energy effects your outlook on the situations you share with them.

Independent

When we do not admit that we are in a situation on the defense, we are much more easily wounded. Sticking to stereotypes, as a female, i often tell myself that it will not be me on the downside of any situation. I do everything in my mental and emotional power to take myself out of the idea that I could possibly be the one that must be on the defense. We get so caught up in attacking the world that we forget that there are millions of others around us playing the same offensive game. No warrior hits a battlefield only with offensive techniques in mine. A successful warrior knows that on the other end of his sword is a man fighting with the same heart as him. He must be ready to defend himself.
Life throws many things at us which require us to defend out emotions, beliefs and our passion. Do not run into life expecting no harm to occur. Guard what fuels you to fight for what you want.

Though I rarely post anything about my personal life on this blog, I think it may be necessary. I'm often asked "What if....?" from many people concerning a hard situation I am in right now. These people ask me as if I am not ready to face what is on the other end of their "What if...?" question. I assume that many people do not face the other side "What if.." with assurance. We should constantly be working to be at the place where we are dependent upon ourselves and not on the temporary people around us. Someone close to me often looks down on the fact that I am always trying to become more independent and self reliant, but I strongly admire those who depend on no one around them. Though our best friends or lovers/significant others may have the best of intentions on being a strong shoulder for us, time can change and affection can fade.
Even if those people stand invincible, death has claim over every walking person at the end of it all.

Life

What will you wake up to tomorrow? Will you be faced with the single opportunity of saving the life of a stranger or will you have the doors of a million opportunities wing open in your favor? Will you be faced with the handgun of a desperate man or will you be face to face with one desperate for your love? Life is not as unpredictable as we make it seem. Life is just perfect with its disguises, but under each mask lies principle lessons for each person to learn. Like any clever man of disguise, he has one clear goal in mind, reach his objective. Life is the same. Its objective is to give its passengers a ride that will provoke growth.

My World

I always thought that my mind was weak. Not weak in the fact that I didn't have an ounce of intellect to fill its crevices. My mind is weak in that it has never been able to hold much of what life pours into it. One negative conversation would drop a load of weight that would leave me unable to lift my head to see the sun rise of tomorrow. My mind could never hold the weight of the real world, as my father would call. It never had a firm grip on what he would describe as "a tough world, baby"
If I strip away the real world and cut the boundaries off of my own mind, I find my thoughts still squatting and shivering in the dark corners. Like a baby entering the world, my thoughts duck behind the warmth, afraid of what may lay outside in the new world of light. I fear for all the creativity that will never develop and die lame and unused. I fear for the world, if there are others like me.

Recycled Life

I have always noticed that life tends to recycle its events. I never understood why but I assume it was because life was broken down into something much more simple that I could never put my finger on. As my life cycles back around redistributing people from my past with old, but shifted situations, I'm beginning to see life in a new light. A professor told me that the true definition of insanity was doing the same thing over and over... expecting a different result.
It would be a waste of breath to live through another chance at a situation without any changes or improvements. These recycled fragments are new chances to refine your life. Many believe in coming from a past life, I believe in coming from a past situation.
All of the changes that we make to refine our life with this new chance should never revolve around the subjects but around who we are aiming to be when the day is over.

Simplicty

I think we miss out when we only seek to have fun experiences because real growth occurs in any new experience period.