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This is Optimal Living Daily. Take chances, make mistakes, get messy. By Krista O'Reilly, Davy DeGee of a Life in Progress.C.A.

And I'm your narrator, Justin Mollick, the guy that reads blogs or articles to you every single

day of the year, including weekends and holidays.

And with that, let's get right to our next post as we optimize your life.

Take chances, make mistakes, get messy, by Krista O'Reilly Davy DeGee of a Life in Progress.ca.

One of my favorite memories of raising my big kids is all the hours we spent watching

Magic School Bus and gleaning life wisdom from the fabulous

Miss Frizzle. Not that we watched a lot of TV, but the Magic School Bus videos counted as educational

time. Ms. Frizzle taught us to take chances, make mistakes, get messy. I don't fancy myself all that much

of a risk taker, but when I spend time looking back

over some of my life choices, I see that I have never necessarily taken the easy road.

I left home and moved to the city first at 16, then for good at 17,

jumped on an airplane with almost no money and a one-way ticket to England at 19.

Decided to learn French as a young adult and dove into university, rather successfully, I might

add, in the French language with very little preparation. Married a West African who did not

speak English one year after meeting him and signed a legal oath to provide for him financially

for immigration purposes

should he turn out to be a bum. Chose to have my first child while in university, decided that after

six years in uni preparing to teach other folks kids, I would ditch all my well-laid plans and

stay home to homeschool, purchased a rental property which has involved plenty of stress at times and many financial ups and downs. to homeschool. Purchased a rental property, which has involved plenty of stress at times

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