Do Something Nice for Yourself

"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." 

-Buddha

Don't waste time negating yourself what you desire. It is quite freeing to realize that everything you could truly want is attainable with the right amount of work and perseverance. Some folks might be saying to yourself, save me the overly indulgent optimism. Trust me, I am right there with you. I have bills to pay, homework to finish and a family to tend to; full time this and full time that. In between all the obligations it is so darn hard to make time for those other passions. Yes, I know all to well that it is much easier to say what you wish for and another to actually achieve it.

But to me happiness, love and success are pretty much all the same. In short, a successful person in my book is someone who is happy with their lot in life. And not only that, a happy person is someone who makes time for the things that bring them joy and de-prioritizes the stuff that doesn't. I realized just today that the reason for my unease as of late was not because of being bogged down with too much stuff to do but that I wasn't taking advantage of my time as wisely as I should.

Sorry Miami Ink re-runs but I would much rather finish my homework early so I might be able to write for an hour or two. So I guess that's my two cents for today. Let's show ourselves a little affection.