The best way to overcome short-term failures is to have a focused ultimate purpose built up with long-term goals to help you accomplish that purpose. 

You cannot change what is not real. You cannot change what you do not accept. 

Accept yourself for who you are, so you can create yourself into who you know you should be. 

Personal walls, relationship defenses we hide behind are like lies. We think we build them to keep ourselves protected, yet in reality, we are just hiding who we really are. 

As we live our lives… 

Our planning is important. 

Our preparation is important. 

Our execution is important. 

Our review and adjustment is important. 

Each step takes awareness and careful consideration. 

If we do them with focus toward our purpose, our efforts will be rewarded. 

If our personal value is intrinsic, our group/community value is also. 

Do not underestimate your personal worth, you are needed by your people. 

Everyone you meet is your people.

Everyone you interact with is your community. 

We go out to fight for who we think we are only to come home to find out who we actually are. 

We can learn something from every single person we meet. Not because they are smarter, or even because they know something we don’t… but because of perspective, experience, and personality. Since each of us is different, if we are truly curious, we can learn to see things through the eyes of another, and that is how we expand our thinking, that is how we learn. 

If you can find ways to help others, you will always be wanted. If you can find ways to serve others, you will always be needed. If you can find ways to show compassion, you will always be welcome. 

You cannot change everything you deal with. But you cannot change anything you don’t deal with. 

Accept what cannot be changed, change what can, and work hard toward your purpose. 

You can tell a lie without lying. 

If you believe it to be true, you are not lying – even if what you say is a non-truth. Pay attention to your facts as lies are always wrong whether we are lying or not.

The worst lies are the ones we tell ourselves.