Sometimes you have to mess things up

Before you can clean them up.

Act as you would expect of someone else

Think about your own situation as though it were that of someone else. What advice would you give to someone in your shoes? Are you following it? Is it worth following? Why feel so bad for yourself if you wouldn't feel so bad for someone else? Why feel so proud of yourself if you wouldn’t …

Hope is not a strategy

But choosing to implement techniques that focus your intention is. Prayer. Visualization. Meditation. Use them.

Knowledge is not power

But instead the potential for power.

Life rewards persistence

You cannot always know how near or far your reward lies, but if pursued with good intentions, sound strategy and disciplined practice, it will come. Persist. Life will reward you.