View Your Life as a Choice

In some sense, everything that has ever happened to you reflects the collective result of an almost infinite series of choices. From the trivial to the crucial, your choices brought you to this moment.  In recognizing that your choices matter and that they guide you, you are taking on a burden, but your are also giving yourself the opportunity to accept life's outcomes and to decide what kind of future you want.

You Define Success

It is all up to you.  No outcome can force you to feel successful or to feel that you failed.  No other person can convince you that what you have is good or bad.  It is up to you to define what life means and where you stand.  Define you life for yourself.

It's Less What Happened Than What Happened Next

You will face difficult times.  Everyone does. But how things turn out for you has less to do with the events themselves than with your response to them.  Answer the challenges that are presented to you, persevere through the traumas that may occur, and you will be made stronger for your life ahead.

Travel the Stable Road

Peeks give way to valleys.  It is a simple law of nature.  Your emotional highs will give way to emotional lows.  The best route to consistently feeling good is to value the plateau.

Boredom Is the Enemy

There is only one true waste of time: boredom.  Boredom is the feeling that there is nothing worth doing.  Your time becomes a hurdle to be overcome instead of a resource to be treasured..Doing absolutely anything is more productive than boredom.