7 Important Life Lessons

*1. Risk expands you .
To make positive change in your life, you often must take risk. You must tolerate some level of uncertainty. Taking thoughtful, calculated risk strengthens your change muscle and helps you grow.

*2. Learn forever .
There is a lot to learn and explore in our short lifetimes. Take the advantage of learning every single day to boost your intelligence and broad your vision upon the world. Challenge yourself to acquire a new skill, read something different or take a class. Learning is what keeps our minds engaged and sharp, even into old age.

*3. You can handle it .
Whatever you think you can't handle, you actually can. You have more strength, more resilience, and more inner wisdom than you give yourself credit for. You'll get through it and survive.

*4. Thoughts aren't real .
Every moment of the day, we have random thoughts floating through our brains. Many of the thoughts are negative and limiting. You don't have to believe them. They aren't the truth or the whole truth. Thoughts can become our reality, but only if we let them.

*5. Intuition counts .
Your judgement is important, but, your intuition super charges your judgement. Intuition is data from your subconscious mind, based on your past experiences and patterns in life. It can arise spontaneously when you are called on to make a decision or need information.

*6. Kindness matters .
Small expressions of kindness have an enormous positive impact on other people. It doesn't take much to be kind. Practice it every day, in every situation, until it's your natural way of being.

*7. Life is now .
We keeping waiting for that amazing thing to happen in the future that will be the key to our happiness. But this is it. Right now. Life continues to be a series of right nows. So learn to love right now, and you'll have an amazing life.