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Put your foot in your mouth from time to time and make sure your walking on clean ground!  No really, be honest with yourself first, and then you can be honest with others.  If you are lying to yourself about how you truly feel, you will definitely not get the help you need.  We have learned to lie to ourselves and pad the truth, but listen to that voice in the back of your head telling you what is right.  And if you don’t have that voice anymore you should probably seek help.  there’s a way to be honest with others without hurting their feelings, it’s called an insult sandwich – compliment, criticism, compliment!  Try it, LOL!

We only have 1 life to live, so everyone wants everything to be perfect, but keep in mind that nothing will ever be perfect and you will have to fail sometimes to learn how to make good choices.  If you give up after the first failure you will never make it.  Harry Potter was submitted to 50+ agents and rejected before it finally got published – could you imagine, all the millions she would have missed out on if she would have given up?  Anything worth having is worth fighting for, so keep the attitude of the experimenter, constantly perfecting the idea, craft, and final product.

You can never do something that you don’t believe you can do.   The believer will attempt things a non-believer will never do.  Belief is the first step to success.  Once you believe, with the proper work over time you will achieve the success you worked so hard for.  Everything needs a certain time of gestation before it comes to fruition.  This means you have to plant your garden and tend to it, and do it in the proper season.  Everyone of us has experienced the feeling of hopelessness when our projects aren’t seeing the light of day – that means we have to give it more sun, more water, or more time.  If you don’t keep hope alive, you won’t survive; faith is a fundamental part of success.

Work hard, party hard.  That is the rule.  Working too much can drain the life out of you and make you question what you’re working for in the first place, even if you enjoy your work you should have something that can take your mind off of it from time to time.  We are made to experience the gamut of emotions, variety keeps us sane.  Just like sleep replenishes us for greater wakefulness, fun recharges our batteries for work.  So get out and let loose!

We should work hard all the time and maximize our potential, but sometimes working harder is not the answer; you can do what you want to do without overworking yourself.  This means that you have to prioritize and make sure you are doing what is most important with your waking hours.  There’s a lot to be done and it all can’t be done at once so make sure to have your ducks in a row.

Always strive to do better and better, always work to your maximum potential, and each time your strength will grow.  Work to perfect your craft continuously and what you’ve accomplished before with extreme effort will be a walk in the park!