See Yourself Succeeding

"The way you see yourself has a lasting impact."

Isn't that the truth? You have to be able to love yourself fully; be completely happy where you have been, where you are and where you are going to fully appreciate your goals; be happy if you accomplish something you set as a goal for yourself.

That has been the biggest challenge for me. To fully appreciate when something good happens, because we usually take for granted when those things come and wish it was something better, or think that we don't deserve it. Why couldn't it have come last month when I really needed the promotion? Well my co-worker helped me so much on the presentation, she should get most of the credit? Why? We all want to succeed. So we should be happy when we do. It's OK to take a mini celebration for those major things that we worked so hard for. Stayed up all night to pull off the greatest presentation of your job thus far? Time to celebrate! Worked double shifts and overtime to finally pay off that car? Rejoice you don't have any car payments, not the time it took you to get there.

I have always said that my life motto is NO REGRETS. There is no point to have any regrets. Everything you have done, experience, and gone through—bad and good— has led you to where you are today, right now, the present. You can't focus on the past or concentrate on the future. All we have is the time we are given today. So succeed in everything you can. And don't be in a rush. We will all get there eventually. We are gonna make it. We are gonna make it out of this. We realize that time is nothing at all but what we make it.
My high school experience, my hard lessons learned by making mistakes, the boyfriends, the fights with my siblings, too many jobs and homework to graduating and no jobs, death, crying, stressing out, getting my first job out of college, my family and long-time friends, heart aches, hospital visits, my first big paycheck, my amazing wedding to the most amazing man I've met, living and traveling together—everything has got me to where I am today.

Everything I do, I always try to succeed and make those around me proud. I feel like I've done a pretty decent job. Now, I can only concentrate on my life with Chris as we navigate this crazy thing called life—doing it together and hopefully succeeding as much as we can.

"The way you see yourself has a lasting impact on your life. When you consider yourself worth of achieving your goals... you'll become who you want to be. You'll see yourself as confident and capable, and you'll follow a different path—because you now see yourself walking toward success. We don't always realize the full impact of our thoughts— how far they reach or how they truly affect us and our goals. See yourself in this brand-new light. Think you can—and you will. Do all you can to become everything you want to be." Barbara J. Hall

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