VITAMIN OPTIMISM

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“Success is 99% failure.”

—Sirocho Honda

For every grape that withers on the vine, a healthy harvest is picked. (Image: AS)

This, again, is something I’ve so often equated with career ideas. That you have to put yourself out there in life to succeed. But isn’t that so true of love? There is a not a living human on the planet who fell in love with and stayed with the first person they ever met. It takes misses for us to know who we are and who we like. Those “failed” dates? They’re not bad failures, they’re hopeful ones, because they’re necessary steps along the rope bridge toward your wonderful love success.

Big love,

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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” —Mark Twain

Look far out to the horizon of what you can have. (Image: AS)

Don’t drag your tired heart through down days and disappointment. Whether you have the relationship you want now yet or not, you can still do new things, explore life, dream big and discover yourself. There is a huge, wonderful world out there, and so many people you’ve yet to meet. Set your sails so that you can see and meet the best of it all.

Big love,

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There is SO much to see, feel and love. (Image: AS)

“If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation.”

—Helen Keller

Yep, Helen Keller. A woman who had every reason to be miserable. If anyone had a right to feel gipped by life and shortchanged on her future, it was her, right? And yet, here she is talking about being an optimist, because being miserable would be worse than lacking the ability to see, hear and speak. So whatever might bring you down today or in the future, think of Helen. She moved past the bad stuff and into the good, and so can you.

Big love,

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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,