Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.

The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.

No - simple to pronounce, hard to say.

God, help me remember that when I admit and accept the truth, I'll be given the power and guidance to change.

Whatever we try to control does have control over us and our life.

I didn't have to scramble up and down the ladder from despair to euphoria anymore, trying to convince myself that life was either painful and terrible or joyous and wonderful. The simple truth was that life was both. p 214

Today I will honor, cherish, and love myself. When I get confused about what to do, I just have to remember that I need to be true to myself. I will break free of the hold that others-and their expectations-ha ve on me.