Start with yourself. Heal yourself. Love yourself. Be yourself. It all begins with you!

 

This post is dedicated to my beautiful nieces. I love you to the moon and back🌚⭐🌞

• Be selective about the people you spend time with since they will have an impact on you.

 

• “Believe people when they reveal who they are.” Maya Angelou

 

• This, too shall pass. No problem stays forever. Every problem comes and goes.

 

• Strive to get rid of the things that aggravate you. Reduce the list of irritations.

 

• It won’t be a secret if the person you are dating is genuinely into you.

 

• There is a difference between feeling better and improving.

 

• Don’t let fear keep you from doing the things you want to do. Do it afraid. 

 

• Share your gifts with the world.

 

• Don’t let pain turn you cold and heartless. Use your story to help others. 

 

• Believe in yourself. You will do AMAZING things in your life.

 

• Don’t keep what you know to yourself. Share it with others, whether a recipe or a great beauty product.

 

• Always have a book you can’t put down.

 

• If you have a job you detest, look for another job and leave the one you hate. It should make you happy to wake up rather than make you feel irritated going to work.

 

• No matter how minor the choice, it has an impact on how you feel about yourself.

 

• Avoid tensing up. Make your home a calm place.

 

• Only if you do will life remain unchanged.

 

• Be conscious of the fact that one choice has the power to alter everything.

 

• Your strengths serve as your purpose’s compass.

 

• Reject the idea that life is difficult and must be endured. To thrive is to live.

 

• Avoid dating someone you wish to save or fix. (Make no one your project) 

 

• Avoid committing to a relationship with someone who lacks empathy.

 

• Make a decision about the kind of life you desire, then build your life around that goal.

 

• Take a lesson from others’ successes to avoid wasting your time.

 

• Life gets better if you’re in the correct relationship. Period.
• Show more attention to what others are saying than to what you have to say. 

 

• Get married to your best friend.

 

• Friends come, and some friends go. The ones that are meant to be in your life will always be.

 

• Live in the now. By Living in the moment, you will have so many memories that will last a lifetime.

 

• Everyone has something to teach you.

 

• Avoid being a victim. Don’t live your life with a victim mentality. It makes you look needy. 

 

• Create your own schedule and include lots of little things that make you happy.

 

• Establish boundaries with the people in your life.

 

• Never allow someone else to decide how you should feel about yourself.

 

• Don’t put your needs last just to please others.

 

• The quicker you let it go, the fewer sleepless nights you will have. (trust my words on this one.) lol

 

• Share your flaws; it makes you relatable to another.

 

• Avoid attempting to blame your parents for what they did or did not do. Just take ownership of your own healing.

 

• Pay attention to people’s actions; they speak louder than words.

 

• Perform at least one activity you enjoy each day.

 

• Always be sincere; it will ease your burden.

 

• Don’t feed your ego. Feed your soul.

 

• If you’re broken, you’ll pick another broken person.

 

• Avoid responding emotionally to situations right away. First, think. 

 

• Every day, leave something unsaid. (I’m still learning this one.) 🤦🏾‍♀️

 

• People’s actions and words have much more to do with them than with you.

 

• Avoid doing something that must remain a secret. 

 

• You are more powerful than you realize.

 

• Be confident. 

 

• Greet total strangers with a smile. (Listen to your intuition with this one.)

 

• Simple decency speaks volumes.

 

• Be considerate, be kind.

 

• Develop your own coping mechanisms.

 

• Communicate freely about issues; many issues can be resolved quicker than you think if you just talk it out.

 

• Make plans for enjoyable things you can look forward to.

 

• The road to joy is one of thankfulness. Be grateful, show it, and say it. 

 

• “Until you do, nothing works.” Maya Angelou

 

• You are aware of the solution.

 

• Don’t ignore your gut instincts. They are trying to tell you something.