Every day must be an opportunity to grow as individuals and our future success must continue to impact our family, friends and colleagues. How can you get this? By having a positive attitude and outlook, we deliver a message that people will accept and want to hear. My passion has always been to embrace people and look for the positive qualities they possess or are capable of attaining. Sometimes a simple phrase or welcome goes a long way. In its basic form, a word of encouragement can create relationships and bonds that last a lifetime. This can also change someone’s mindset towards us or how she approaches us. With uncertainties always around the corner, sometimes a great opportunity is disguised as a challenge, but we never see the opportunity because we are focused on the challenge, not the opportunity.

I have never been one to shy away from a challenge, and too often when faced with change in our lives, we are unwilling to move forward. We spend so much time looking back and regretting decisions we made or choices we never made, that we fail to seize new opportunities or look for something better: a fresh start, a fresh start. An opportunity that we may have overlooked or taken for granted because we thought it was unattainable. We did not believe that we had the ability or the talent to perform the task at hand.

Although we often spend our time reflecting on the past, the uncertainties of the future must be our driving force. Our past successes and failures can shape our outlook on life, but the adventure of growing and expanding our experiences through new opportunities, new friends, or places should propel us to success. The unknown must fuel our existence and inspire us to move forward! We do not know what to expect in the future nor do we know what we are capable of achieving in the future.