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Age marks us, making us more beautiful. (Image: AS)

“I’m very curious about what I’ll look like when I’m older, about how I am meant to look. I’m starting to look like my mother more and more. One day, she will pass away, and I want to be reminded of her when I see my own face.”

—Jenna Fischer in Health magazine, Jan/Feb 2009

Why change the beautiful things about you? What you were born with is special. And what age brings is not a bad thing, it’s a wonderful one. Your age brings experiences, good, bad, rough, and enlightening. It brings relationships that move and change you for the better. And while it changes your body and your face, it does so with natural grace. Be proud of what your age has given you, for you can bring what you’ve gained into an even bigger and better relationship.

Big love,

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“God didn’t have time to make a nobody, only a somebody. I believe that each of us has God-given talents within us waiting to be brought to fruition.”

—Mary Kay Ash

We're all made to do something. (Image: Ken Spencer)

We all need to remember this on those days we feel bored, bummed out, over it and out of it. We were all made as somebodies, and to be the best somebodies we could. So find what makes you feel great about yourself and do more of it. Dancing, cycling, writing, working, playing, swimming, motivating, laughing, loving? Whatever it is, don’t let your somebody-ness get stuck inside and overwhelmed by your bad days. Let it out.

Big love,

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Be as fearless as this Venice Skate Park kid (Image: AS)

“Act as if it were impossible to fail.”

—Dorothy Broude

I’ve always loved this quote. And while it usually brings career and work to mind first for me, we can treat our love lives with these same words. If you’re single and dating, act as if you will have the love of your life coming soon. Act as if you couldn’t possibly fail at getting the family and relationship you dream of. If you act as if you’ll have it, then I have no doubt it will come.

Big love,

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Be and do YOUR Best. (Image: AS)

“I always thought ‘trying’ was a weak word.”

—Guy outside a Marianne Willamson lecture.

And he’s right. Trying is a weak word. The way I see it, here’s what I want you do to for today: Don’t try to do…do. Don’t try to be…be. Don’t try to love…love.

Big love,

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What scenery are you missing in your life? (Image: Ken Spencer)

“Optimist: A man who is chased up a tree by a lion but enjoys the scenery anyway.”

—Walter Winchell

There are lions everywhere in life. And when you’re single, it’s usually that element of your life that roars in your face every day: “I’m single! I’m alone! I’ll never meet anyone! I’m screwed!” Sure, maybe you are single and feel alone. But as a dating optimist, you know you will meet someone. And instead of being torn apart by the roar of that lion, you, too, can enjoy the scenery of your life right now during the chase. And what a scene it is when you look, right?

Big love,