Trust

Why are you in tears? 

It will be alright. 

Don't cry dear. 

Have faith and trust.

Keep moving forward.

Time

Does it drive you crazy when you hear a clock tick? If time is a made up concept by humans as a means to effectively interact with each other. A common unit of measurement that everyone understands and that everyone gets a limited amount of. Some say that time is money. Some say that pleasure derived from materialistic things leads to unhappiness. But time is a material quantity too, no different than money. Everyone would like more of it, and it can be exchanged with other materialistic things. For instance, I can add a few hours to my day by paying someone to do my chores. In essence, I am buying time. I am exchanging one materialistic quantity for another.

So that being said, is procrastination no different than poor management of finances. Waiting for better times in the future, no different than wanting to be rich. Thinking about the past no different than buying something with a no-returns policy.

A common advice given for spiritual growth is to live in the present. Does that work for money and other materialistic things? If I only think about how much money I have at this moment and not worry about how much money I have in the past and how much money I will have in the future, would that bring peace into my life? My answer would be yes. I think it is easy to see that the live in the present rule would work for all materialistic things, including time.

Believe

The first person you need to convince to believe in yourself and your dreams is you. If you don't live and breathe your values and your vision, then people will sway you, difficulties will diverge you and problems will overwhelm you. You are working towards your goals for a reason, a reason that you understand more than anyone else in this world and at the moment when you set these goals for yourself, there was no room for compromise.

Yes, some days are brighter than others, and you may feel like you have finally made it, but the truth is you will never make it. Life is too short to make it to where you want to be if you keep thinking and working the way you do. Each day you wake up with a new beginning, a chance to make things right, a chance to move a step closer to where you want to be. If your vision of where you want to be is not clear in your mind, then it is just a matter of time before someone starts making decisions for you. You are giving your life away to fulfill someone else's dreams.

Believe in yourself and your dreams with the utmost confidence. There will always be someone better than you, but only you have the power to make your dreams come true and you are the best person to know what you need to do to get there. I hope we make this a life worth living, a story worth telling.