The Answer Key

The best lesson you can figure out at this stage in your life is the most important one- your happiness is your daily duty from one moment to the next. The moment you realize that you can choose your happiness over your situation, thoughts, or offense under most circumstances, you are well ahead of the rest. That said, the second you decide that your happiness rests in the hands, pocket, or is the ball in someone else's court, you have a problem. Your happiness is not, can not, and will not be reliant on the execution or approval of anyone else unless you let it come to that. In that case you are merely a puppet mastered solely by your puppeteer's will. Avoid those shackles at all costs. Someone special, a boss, a friend, loved one, or even a stranger can come into your life, month, week, or day, and give your happiness a shot of adrenaline, sure, but they should never be the sole catalyst- you are. The production and maintenance of your happiness is your job. Release the thin...

When you set up boundaries there will always be people in your life trying to jump the fence. Do not let them. Stand firm in your understanding of your limitations and stick to them. Know the difference between being useful and being used. Take time to consider the impact the decisions you make will ultimately have and you and your family, not just how greatly your efforts would benefits the person asking for something. Everyone knows the saying, 'you have to teach people how to treat you', but what is most important is learning the practice of it when you are challenged. Do not feel bad for taking you into consideration in every decision you make.  Some people will not catch it on the first day.  It will take your commitment to learn that lesson and hold the line, but it is always worth it. ~When you get a sec stop by fb.me/TheAnswerKey & www.twitter.com/_TheAnswerKey daily!

Mondays can be tough if you going out to do something you really are not into, and doing it anyway. Mondays are hard for those who have no desire to be where they are going. Mondays bring great sadness to anyone uninterested in being who they were last Monday. May this Monday bring you peace in whatever must be done today, but  clarity in what you will do to bring forth a future Monday you can look forward to. Let the action you take today and everyday be based in the understanding that with you efforts today a better Monday is going to come. For more positive posts stop by www.twitter.com/_TheAnswerKey & fb.me/TheAnswerKey daily!

The time has come. It is time to wake up and move, move toward your dream's fruition. If you have not started yet, let's go, start today. Do not allow your fears to paralyze you any longer. Remind yourself that you have already beaten odds before, made your way out of the eye of storms before, and survived before. You have been down, hurt, and disappointed before too, but you are still here. You made it through all of your life's challenges thus far even if you were beaten, battered, or bruised in the end- you made it. You made it because you decided that you were stronger than all that was thrown at you. Therefore, you know you can do anything you set your mind to; you have already proven it to yourself time and time again, but you have to want it. You have to want it more than anyone else wants it for you. You have make it a priority in your life. You have to believe and plant and water those seeds of success every day, and remember that the harvest is merely a physical r...