And I quote....

"Some of our struggles involve making decisions, while others are a result of the decisions we have made. Some of our struggles result from choices others make that affect our lives. We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations."
— L. Lionel Kendrick

I chose to begin my blog with this quote because it pinpoints the number one reason why people are not successful in life. DECISIONS. I find that we as people have a hard time dealing with decisions that involve matters of the heart and how we truly feel about a certain object, person or situation.  It's like we lose our ability to be objective, instead we rationalize.  Lets move past this people, can we move on?  We cannot spend the rest of our lives blaming others or events for our current predicament, position or situations.  We certainly cannot go on expecting a helpful hand every step of the way.  Some of us will misinterpret that hand and begin to expect it to carry us all the way versus just nudging us along the way. 

In life we need people to guide us or help us in finding our direction sort of in the way that we were taught to ride a bike.  The person who is doing the teaching sustains and balances the bike for you until you can balance that bike on your own.  The transition between being guided and doing it alone, whatever it is should be as smooth as when we learn to ride that bike on our own.  I remember crying out as I learned how to ride  dont let go, please dont let go because I was afraid.  When that teacher let go, I didnt even notice.  I thought I was still being guided, when I realized that I was doing it alone the reality scared me and I felt that I would soon fall, but I didnt.  Nothing in life is meant to be that difficult that it will knock you down.  Learn to get over the obstacle, jump over it, go around it or if its too large to climb or get around then dig and dig until you come out on the other side.  The goal is to move on.