Thucydides teaches that: “the secret to happiness is freedom… and the secret to freedom is courage.”

So the secret to happiness is courage. 

Courage is always a choice. 

It is the choice to do the right thing no matter the fear, pain, or grief. 

Your friends are your future. 

Change your friends, change your future. 

Your habits are your future. 

Change your habits, change your future. 

You create your future. 

Change yourself, change your future. 

Living to your potential means living an authentic life. Authenticity is about truth, not about preference. 

Integrity is important. Integrity is the art of finding and then following the truth, your needs, and the needs of others.

Courage is integrity in action. Doing the right thing, is always the honest thing, no matter the obstacles. 

 

 

Happy Birthday, Lucia!!!! You are loved. Thank you for living your life with integrity. 

The glass we look through isn’t always clean. Cleaning the glass sometimes allows us to see something new. Even though our position hasn’t changed, cleaning the glass often gives us a different perspective. 

There are many ways to clean the glass, but it always starts with admitting there might be something else we could do, see, or change. 

If you want someone to be more valuable, treat them like they are more valuable. 

Treat others according to their potential and that is what they will become. 

Treat them as they are, and they might regress. Treat them as they could be and they will grow. 

Everyday we find out who we can trust based on who shows up. 

While some folks think they are being nice, other folks are. 

While some people want to help, other people do. 

Be the other. 

 

The best strategy always maximizes your most advantageous talents. 

Some people ask for what they want, they often get it.

Some people don’t ask for what they want, they never get it. 

Complaints are negative emotions being voiced. 

Facts can be positive or negative, but are logical and look at the situation. 

Complaints bring in the emotional side to the facts. 

Take out the emotion, and looking at the facts can help us plan our next steps. 

Bring back the emotions and we get  mentally clouded and stuck in our feelings and then we make bad decisions.