Sometimes, things need to come undone for better things to come together.

I've learned that each time you go through a breakup, the pain isn't any more or less intense or hard, but the way you process and get back up can be different when you learn the tools to get yourself back to equilibrium. There are so many lessons that can be learned during times of heartbreak, and there's an opportunity to grow and become more emotionally healthy.

You allow people to treat you the way they do. Your energy, confidence and attitude is the currency that others will transact with.

Get in the habit of writing down three things you're grateful for every day. Studies show that in a two-minute span of time, done over 21 days in a row, you can actually rewire your brain. Your brain starts to retain a pattern of scanning the world for the positive versus the negative. Seeing things in a frame of positivity and gratitude is a muscle. You can strengthen this muscle through practice.

Hold yourself on your own. A man's job in a romantic dynamic is not to be your butler, bank account or your father.

Spend less time shopping, more time traveling.

You cannot teach ambition.