Five Hundred Twenty Five Thousand Six Hundred Minutes.

One of my best friends sent me this the other day, Self Acceptance must come before self improvement or you wont feel like you deserve more.

Every time a birthday approaches I use it as a chance to reflect .Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes.How do you measure a year?In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights?In cups of coffee?In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife? Measure your life in love.

I went to see Eat,Love,Pray last night. My initial love for acting comes from that two hour escape. It made me laugh , cry and honestly want to do more with my own existence.

"Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it."


— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love)

"When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you've just wandered off the path, that you'll find your way back to the trail head any moment now. Then night falls again and again, and you still have no idea where you are, and its time to admit that you have bewildered yourself so far off the path that you don't even know from which direction the sun rises anymore."


— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat,Pray,Love)

After the movie I thought about where I assumed I would be at in my mid twenties. A well traveled journalist or an actress shooting great scripts. Doing humanitarian work. Married to the love of my life. Children on the way. Building a cute little beach house. Walking chocolate labs.Learning to cook and.............. well.... that's simply not my life at the present moment.

So age 24 , always a good time to shed light on past mistakes so I learn and set goals for the upcoming year.

"First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do"-Eictetus

"God does not command that we do great things , only little things with great love"-Mother Theresa

Take responsibility for my life.

There are no justified resentments. If I remove blame then no one else is responsible for what I'm experiencing. If someone else is responsible for your mind you 'll have to wait until they change for you to be better. Control your thoughts,select good ones.

Id rather be kind than right.

Chinese proverb - "If your going to pursue revenge dig two graves."

What other people think of you really is none of your business.

"I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen."


— Elizabeth Gilbert

I am so grateful for god , my life, family,and friends.

Trust the Process.

J