I hope that people here at the end of this year understand

that they are way stronger than they thought.

And that, yeah, the world isn't as bad as everyone keeps complaining about and saying that it is.

I agree that problems do exist, but so do our hearts and our spirits,

that know how to serve, that know how to overcome, that know how to be our best.

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I always believe that each year of our lives is so often ultimately defined by our own meaning, our own labels,

the extent to which we practice our own personal power and positive habits throughout the year.

We all have ups and downs.

The human story is always filled with struggle and progress. And yet so often we really forget in the middle all of it, in dealing with so many

crazy things in this world, just how much choice we have about our own attitudes, even if we can't control

the events of the day. How much control we have over our attitudes and our feelings and our moods

and our habits and yes, even our relationships and many of the things we get to experience in life,

even if life throws curve balls, even if sometimes there's injustice

and lack of fairness, even when things seems to be falling apart, ultimately over the long term,

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