Success?

Success is measured in a variety of different ways: the money you make, the title that's on your office door, your house being clean and your children well kept, your children surpassing your expectations, your lack of reliance on societal systems, etc. 

Sometimes, we get too caught up in the big picture to recognize the smaller successes; be careful how you measure success. Revel in the small things and make light of the failures leading up to the "big things". It can be difficult, but remember you are in control of your destiny. 

- Aim high. 

- Do what makes you happy, and if it doesn't make you rich, that's okay; if it does make you rich even better. 

- Try to maintain a positive outlook. 

- Keep a balance between enjoying your youth and learning to emulate your elders. 

- Life isn't fair but it is how you learn to deal with those discrepancies is what makes you stronger as a person. 

- Learn to laugh at yourself; everyone else is going to anyway. 

- Find strength in who you are. 

- You are allowed to be frustrated (angry, upset, sad, etc.), vent and move on. 

- Learn to find joy in (almost) everything.