Every morning ask: “Is this what I want for myself?”

1. Whenever the answer has been “no” for too many mornings in a row, you know it’s time to make a change.  If you follow this principle a lot of life’s big decisions are actually pretty simple.
2. Long-term happiness is the settling of your soul into its most appropriate spot.  This spot contains the ideas, passions, people, and places that move you.
3. Accept responsibility for making these things possible in your life.  Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.  Be honest with yourself.  If you catch yourself following the crowd on automatic pilot simply because it’s the easiest option, it’s time to pause and reflect.

Take a few small steps every single day.

1. Don’t build mountains in your mind.  Don’t try to conquer it all at once.  Take everything in stride, one step at a time.
2. When you seek instant gratification you make life unnecessarily painful and frustrating.  When you choose instead to treat each moment as an opportunity to make a small, positive, long-term investment in your future, the rewards come naturally.
3. Although each individual effort may seem to have no effect when you make it, at some point you’ll look back and realize the momentous impact your efforts created once they were added together.  By moving at this sustainable pace, you’ll be able to continue moving forward for as long as it takes to get precisely where you want to go.

You were hoping to make fewer mistakes.

You aren't really free until you give yourself the freedom to make mistakes.Liberate yourself!Try new things, learn and explore freely.Your good judgment comes from life experience, and life experience comes from your bad judgments of the past.You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes.  Disappointment and defeat are the tools life uses to show you the way.

You let uncertainty paralyze you.

As time goes on, you’ll understand: what lasts, lasts; what doesn’t, doesn’t.  Time solves most things, and what time can’t solve, you’ll learn to solve yourself.  Sometimes you’ll not be able to see where you are going in life, clearly.  But know that your soul’s inner GPS will guide you home.  You will find that you will be the right person, at the right place, at the right time, doing the right thing on point.  Trust your intuition.  Relax.  You know what to do.

You did what everyone else wanted you to do.

life is too short to spend all your time trying to make everyone else happy.  Besides, it’s impossible to please everyone all the time.  Make choices that take your mind, body, and soul into consideration.  You are the only person who knows what’s best for you.  It’s impossible for anyone else to know.  No matter how much you share with them, they are not connected to your deepest desires, intuition, or hopes and dreams.  Always, ALWAYS listen to yourself and what you want first.

Spend time with those who inspire you.

Don’t waste too much of your time with people who are not supportive of your goals and abilities.  Surround yourself with those who believe in your potential.Anyone who inspires you to make your half-hearted attempts more whole-hearted through passion and love, is a precious friend and teacher.These people are out there.Find them and conquer the world together.

Be ambitious enough to fail, and be OK with it.

If you never fail, then your goals are not nearly ambitious enough. Comfort is state of being in which to find rest and renewal for a short time; it is a dreary and dismal place to remain permanently. If you don’t challenge yourself on a regular basis, your abilities and effectiveness will become stale and weak. The reason life can be so rewarding is precisely because it can be so difficult. When your efforts are met with failure, you know you are on to something; because on the flip-side of that failure is a real, substantial accomplishment that doesn't come easy. Your failed attempt is simply evidence that you are reaching higher.  And higher is always the best direction to travel in.

Thinking that now is the wrong time.

This isn’t the wrong time and place, because you can make it the right time and place.  Today is the first day of a new beginning – the conception of a new life.  The next nine months are all yours.  You can do with them as you please.  Make them count.  Because a new person is born in nine months.  The only question is: Who do you want that person to be?

Superficial judgments.

We don’t know most people half as well as we believe we do; and truly knowing someone is a big part of what makes them attractive.  Every human being is beautiful; it just takes the right set of eyes to see it.  The more you mature, the more you will be able to look beyond another person’s appearance and see the beauty of who they really are.