Don’t settle!! It’s not in your spirit. Don’t settle for living someone else’s life, or for believing that you should just survive. What you do to live, and what you do to survive are two different things! Choose to live..really live. Playing small is not who you are! You are called to live a GREATER life!! Don’t settle for a place at the back of the line. You are more than able. You are a conqueror. You can come through this, and have your dream. You have COMEBACK power!!! Because…you have something special..you have GREATNESS within you!! Live it!

Unconditional acceptance doesn’t mean that we give up or wave the white flag—that’s quitting. Acceptance means that we let go of who we think we should be and fall in love with who we currently are. The only thing in life you have control over is your perspective. No matter what happens, YOU control what the meaning is, and what to do with the meaning you give to the circumstance.

In our dark times, we have a tendency to focus on all that is bad and wrong in our lives. While this is very easy to do, we shouldn’t do it! I have made myself ill at times like this as I’m sure many of you have also. These are the times when what we need to focus on is all that is good in our lives. I want you to yell and say STOP!

Then tell yourself that this is just a bad moment in time and this too shall pass! Then I want you to remember all that is good in your life. Remember how fortunate that you are and look around you and see how much that you have and appreciate it all. Tell yourself that this moment will NOT define me, but how I react to it will! I will persevere! I will overcome! I will survive! I am better than this!

Remember that your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.