I want to skip the flattery and the Attaboes because I do know this the sooner that we become less impressed with our life

with our accomplishments with our career with whatever that prospect is in

front of us the sooner we become less impressed and more

involved with that and these things, the sooner we get a whole lot better at

doing them. So I'm going to talk to you about some things I've learned in my

journey. Most from experience. Some of them I heard in passing. Many of them I'm

still practicing, but all of them I do believe are true.

Now they may be truth to me, but don't think that that makes them mine because you cannot

own a truth.

So please think of these as signpost approaches, paradigms that gives some science to satisfaction.

They're yours to steal, they're used to share, liken to your own lives, to personally apply in your own lives in your own way, should you choose to.

So, here we go. Number one, life's not easy. Life is not easy. It is not. Don't try to make it that way. Life's not fair. It never was. It is it now and it won't ever be. Do not fall into the trap, the entitlement trap, of feeling like you're a victim. You are

not. Get over it and get on with it. And yes, most things are more rewarding when you

break a sweat to get them.

Number two, I love this one.

Unbelievable is the stupidest word in the dictionary.

Shouldn't ever come out of our mouth.

Think about it.

To say, oh, wow, what an unbelievable play.

It was an unbelievable book, an unbelievable film,

an unbelievable act of courage. Really? It may be spectacular, it may be

phenomenal, most excellent or outstanding, but unbelievable? Uh-uh. Give others and yourself more credit. It just happened. You witnessed it. You just

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