You have the power to give variety and interest to your life. Do not let someone else impose his or her personal attitude and opinion on you. The freedom to grow and reach out and be all you want to be is within your power. Yes, I said your power! Stay away from “dream robbers,” as they take glory in evaporating our dreams. Their negative opinions can rob us of our enthusiasm, and create doubt in our own ability to achieve. Doubt brings fear and fear paralyzes our creative energy. Keeping our focus and refusing to be distracted is the first step toward realizing our life’s dreams. We all have dreams, and in order for them to become reality, we must first set our goals. Then, with work and determination, our dreams will become reality! Success is the result of accomplishing your predetermined personal and specific goals. Remember all great accomplishments began in the recesses of the mind-dreams! Your dreams! As soon as your mind’s eye saw the vision, it became a desire. After you wrote it down, it became a goal. Napoleon Hill tells us in his book Think and Grow Rich that seeing our personal goals in our mind is the first step to bringing our desires to fruition in our life!

1. Spend time alone to fully concentrate on the life you want for yourself. See and feel it as you mentally focus on your heart’s desire.
2. Write down everything you envision your life to be. Don’t be afraid, these are your dreams, not anyone else’s. They belong to you!
3. Live as though you already possess what you want.
4. Find someone you fully trust to help encourage and support you as you begin to build your new life.
5. Consider what knowledge you might need to acquire to help realize your dreams. Maybe you need the challenge of further education to bring your dreams to reality. The new fast track programs are wonderful in allowing us to get in, get the job done, and get out!
6. Put leverage on yourself by sharing your dreams with others. Once you actually verbalize your dreams and goals with others, you will be more compelled to accomplish them!

Going through a divorce is one thing, but finding out your husband was having an affair is another story. When I discovered my husband was dumping me for a woman twenty years younger, I was outraged! Prior to finding out about the affair, I was unwilling to contact an attorney as it meant there was no hope for the marriage. However, valuable time was passing and I had gone months with no money! Now I was ready to hire an attorney and fight for what I rightly deserved. Are you refusing to protect yourself and your rights to the marital assets? Tell me what you think.

According to the US Census Bureau, half of all marriages will fail. If you are heading towards your second or third marriage, the statistics are even more bleak, with a divorce rate of 60 percent. Younger people under 25 years of age have a divorce rate of a whopping 85 percent! Does this mean no one should ever get married? What do you think about these statistics? Do you have suggestions you could offer for what might help lower these statistics? Please share your thoughts.