Panic Is Our Great Enemy.

We Call It Keeping Up With The Joneses. They Buy A Boat And We Buy A Bigger One. They Get A New Tv And We Get A Big Screen. They Start A Business And We Start Planning Our Articles Of Incorporation And The First Stock Release. And While We're So Busy Keeping Up, We Ignore Our Soul, The Inner Voice, That's Telling Us That It Really Wants To Teach Children To Read. While It Helps To Identify With Each Other, We're Not The Same. So Why Compare Ourselves On The Basis Of Material Things? Are You Walking A Path With Heart In Your Own Life, Regardless Of What Others Have?

Striving For Excellence Is A Positive Quality. Striving For Perfection Is Self-defeating.

Living Our Lives May Not Be An Exciting Prospect To Some Of Us Either. Maybe We've Been So Wrapped Up In Other People That We've Forgotten How To Live And Enjoy Our Lives.

Even If The Most Important Person In Your World Rejects You, You Are Still Real, And You Are Still Okay.

The Surest Way To Make Ourselves Crazy Is To Get Involved In Other People's Business, And The Quickest Way To Become Sane And Happy Is To Tend To Our Own Affairs.