Notes to myself
When planning the future, make sure that what you've been told is the whole unexpergated truth. Dissembling after the fact is a sign of an offer being withdrawn or amended. Have a contingency plan because what you are planning is your future, not theirs.
Do something because it is what you want, not what you think others want of you. Go about it as if you were the lone person involved and others' wishes weren't even expressed. Do it because you deserve it.
Make changes because it's what you need, not because someone else suggested them. Clearing the decks should be for your own peace of mind, not someone else's. Make room in your life for you.
Care enough to put your life in order because you love yourself, not because it's what someone else thinks you should do. Have the courage to march straight out there and take care of what needs doing.
Know that if you feel strong, capable, loving, beautiful and courageous, it will be so. You don't need affirmation from anyone else. If you believe it, it is.
Stop making excuses for yourself. If you weren't capable of achieving what you want, you wouldn't constantly be explaining to yourself the reasons why you aren't. Be what you want to be. That's the only real satisfaction in life.
Know that no matter where you go, you always take yourself along. If you are less than what you want to be, you're the only person who has to live with that. Anyone else can walk away. Be someone you can be proud of when you look in the mirror.
Remember that walking means falling, but running means the fall hurts more. Move forward steadily. When you fall, pick yourself up and get on with it. Skinned knees heal. So does anything else.
Love yourself as much as you love anyone else. Even more. That isn't being selfish, it's realizing that you are just as important. Besides, you can't expect anyone else to give you something you aren't willing to give yourself.
Do something because it is what you want, not what you think others want of you. Go about it as if you were the lone person involved and others' wishes weren't even expressed. Do it because you deserve it.
Make changes because it's what you need, not because someone else suggested them. Clearing the decks should be for your own peace of mind, not someone else's. Make room in your life for you.
Care enough to put your life in order because you love yourself, not because it's what someone else thinks you should do. Have the courage to march straight out there and take care of what needs doing.
Know that if you feel strong, capable, loving, beautiful and courageous, it will be so. You don't need affirmation from anyone else. If you believe it, it is.
Stop making excuses for yourself. If you weren't capable of achieving what you want, you wouldn't constantly be explaining to yourself the reasons why you aren't. Be what you want to be. That's the only real satisfaction in life.
Know that no matter where you go, you always take yourself along. If you are less than what you want to be, you're the only person who has to live with that. Anyone else can walk away. Be someone you can be proud of when you look in the mirror.
Remember that walking means falling, but running means the fall hurts more. Move forward steadily. When you fall, pick yourself up and get on with it. Skinned knees heal. So does anything else.
Love yourself as much as you love anyone else. Even more. That isn't being selfish, it's realizing that you are just as important. Besides, you can't expect anyone else to give you something you aren't willing to give yourself.