The voice inside your head that tells you “I can’t.” The nagging internal doubts that say “Don’t try, you might fail.” Those are thoughts and feelings holding you back from success. The good news: you can silence those thoughts and move past them.

When you look at yourself in the mirror, you see a different image than the image that everyone else sees. Looking in the mirror is a good metaphor for the practice of viewing yourself honestly and without a filter. In order to see yourself the way others see you, and to see the way you project yourself within the world, you must look inside of your self and examine what is happening inwardly. You can look in the mirror and tell yourself that you are OK, but you may not be, and everyone else will notice.

Some say that you are what you eat. This is, in a way, true. Your body used the nutrients from food as building blocks for proteins, fats, hormones and fluids in your body. Equally true is the statement: You are what you think.

Throughout life I've often assumed happiness was something you must strive for. It's something you'll recieve in return for your actions. You cannot be truly happy until certain circumstances are met. After much consideration and thought, I've realized it's the other way around.