45 Lessons in Life by Regina Brett (age 90)!!!

I was guided to these 45 lessons in life  that celebrate growing older and the knowledge that lifes experience provides. Regina Brett wrote the 45 lessons life taught her.

Lessons in

1. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
4. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.
5. Pay off your credit cards every month.
6. You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
7. Cry with someone. It’s more healing than crying alone..
8. It’s OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.
10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
11. Make peace with your past so it won’t screw up the present.
12. It’s OK to let your children see you cry.
13. Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn’t be in it.
15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don’t worry; God never blinks.
16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
17. Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.
18. Whatever doesn’t kill you really does make you stronger.
19. it’s never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.
20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don’t take no for an answer.
21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don’t save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.
23. Be eccentric now. Don’t wait for old age to wear purple.
24. The most important sex organ is the brain.
25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words ”In five years, will this matter?”.
27. Always choose life.
28. Forgive everyone everything.
29. What other people think of you is none of your business.
30. Time heals almost everything.. Give time, time.
31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change. 32
32. Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
33. Believe in miracles.
34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn’t do.
35. Don’t audit life.. Show up and make the most of it now.
36. Growing old beats the alternative – dying young.
37. Your children get only one childhood.
38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else’s, we’d grab ours back.
41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
42. The best is yet to come.
43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
44. Yield.
45. Life isn’t tied with a bow, but it’s still a gift.

Three Ways to redefine YOUR compass!!!

Your best friend is yourself. If you can see the best in yourself, you will find the best in others.

Inside yourself, you always have a choice. Do you stand in the light? or do you stand in the dark?

Your compass in life are your values. Define TODAY, NOW!!! What your top three values are!!!

Success and Determination

Success comes from determination, determination comes from self belief,
self belief from your inner spirit

It is safer to say in the harbour!!! 

BUT that's not what ships were built for!!!

It's easy to give up, it's safer to hide, its harder to fight....but YOU have to live with the one best friend that you absolutely have to connect with every second of the day....Your inner self!!!!

Do you want to live every second of your life hiding from the truth of your potential? 

Do you want to always look back on your life wondering what you could and should have achieved?

Do you want to grow as a human or slowly fade away like a dimming light until even the embers of hope fade?

YOU have a CHOICE. We live in a world where we ALL have a choice. YOU have to from this moment take full responsibility and ownership for who you are.

There are two amazing days of every life and every human on the planet. 

The first being the day that you are born.  The second, most important day of your life is when you find and realise the reason WHY YOU were born. Some would argue that the second day is a greater of the two.....

BUT there is a third day....and that is the day that YOU DECIDE to take sustained and massive ACTION to achieve your human potential. to take action and connect with your passion and reason for being here.  This day is the most important day of your journey. The day that you decide to take ACTION.

Success comes from determination, determination comes from self belief,
self belief from your inner spirit

If you have read this, TODAY is the day that you decide. Today is YOUR day to connect with who you really are inside, to find yourself, to start to search for your passion and to look for the reason why you were born.

Start you journey today to finding and connecting with your human potential. YOU always have a choice, the time has come to excercise that choice and to take ACTION. Start to take ownership and responsibility for who you are at this time, for what you have done, and for what you want to achieve

You are amazing. We are all amazing.

Come back and link to this site to start telling your journey so that we can all be inspired!!!

Build your path through discovery and chance. Quiet your mind, YOUR journey begins here.

CONFIDENCE is an incredibly powerful word in our times. It has driven success and created failure, it has been driving economies and fulling debt, it opens new doors and blinds us to what lies ahead of us.

Confidence is an energy and power that lies deep with us all and to connect with it and take control of who we are we have to teach and educate our inner self to become self aware of our actions, the actions of others and the impact that our actions have in the present and into the future. For as Gary Ryan Blair attests "Everything Counts" Every little detail counts "It's not that the devil is in the details, but that every small particle contains a seed that can potentially determine the difference between success and failure." (Gary Ryan Blair).

We all have to start from this day to make our choices on who we are, what we do and what we want to achieve. What will be your legacy. It is now our time to start to take full ownership and responsibility for who we are and what do, and how we treat all others that we are lucky to come into contact with.