Taking ownership of one's own life begins with knowing (and accepting) the current landscape for what it is.

What does that REALLY mean, anyway?

It means, for starts, that YOU are literally not the center of the universe. Unless you are a minor child living with legally responsible adults, NOBODY owes you anything. If you sit in a classroom and elect ( Read more... )

Random thoughts follow. Try to keep up if you can...

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If you are NOT having a good day today, ask yourself why. Are you giving the "power" of good day occurrence exclusively to someone else? If that is the case, why on earth would you do that?! It's YOUR life, not theirs. They are not going to let you determine what kind of day they are going ( Read more... )

Life is precarious, precious, and fleeting. We are all here for a finite period of time, and then we are gone, save for the memories of those souls who choose to retain them. When the ones who remember us are gone, then our erasure from this mortal coil is complete ( Read more... )

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Personal responsibility is just that - personal. You create your own future based upon the decisions you make, as well as the decisions you decline to make. Of course, to a lesser degree, your future is also determined by decisions made by others on your behalf. Rather than bemoan the options that you don't have, work with relish upon the options ( Read more... )

Bad news does NOT get better in the passing of time.

Tis better to deal with not-happy business right away than to procrastinate in hopes that it might go away.