This is how it happens. We get the Dream, but we don't get to dictate every step toward the dream.

..Fear is the energy to do your best in a new situation. The feeling of fear (anxiety, nervousness, shyness, or any of its other aliases) is really "preparation energy". It's getting you ready to excel, to succeed, to do your best and to learn the most.

..Since depression is a genetic biological illness, like diabetes, or low thyroid, it wasn't lack of character, laziness, or something I could "snap out of"-it would be like trying to snap out of a toothache.

If we learned all we needed to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade.

Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.

To affirm is to make firm.

You need only look at what's in front of you and find something there to appreciate.