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Life Lesson #2:

Be grateful for all your many blessings!

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Life Lesson #3:

Learn to love spending time alone with just yourself. Put it on your calendar!

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Life Lesson #4:

Give more!

Not only will it bless the people receiving,

but you will be blessed more than you expect!

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Life Lesson # 5:

Trust yourself.

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Life Lesson #6:

Stay positive! Speak positively. Think positively. Look for the positive in situations. Discuss positive topics. Dwell on positiveblessings and possibilities. This one lessons may take practice, but it will POSITIVELY CHANGE YOUR LIFE!

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Life Lesson #7:

Don't make assumptions.

You know what they say...and they are right!

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Life Lesson #8: Journaling is a great tool to enhance your life, and adding art to your pages is even better. You learn so much about yourself through journaling, and self-awareness is an important personal attribute to attain. Secondly, your experiences are observed more closely and thought about more deeply when you are putting them on paper. It forces you to take your time, slow down, notice the little things. Bring a pencil, some watercolors, and your favorite pens on vacations, hikes, ballgames, and even trips to the coffee shop. Also, you get to relive the experiences as often as you want when you look back on your journals. Another great bonus is that your children and grandchildren will have a personal part of your life experience told from your own hand. Wouldn't you love to have your grandparents' journals?

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Life Lesson #10:

In order to move on, you must forgive yourself.

If there are any others left unforgiven, forgive them, too.

This is for your sake, not theirs.

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Life Lesson #11:

Listen and learn what children have to teach you.

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Life Lesson #12:

The best memories, the most important times in our lives,

are the ones that are shared.

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Life Lesson #13:

At the root of jealousy is fear.

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Life Lesson # 14:

There are people who come along in your life who are constantly complaining and asking for advice, but then when you try to help them or offer advice (see Life Lesson #32) they have a million reasons why it won't work. Then you get frustrated because the person is sucking the life out of you and won't do anything to better their own life, so you get angry with them and reaffirm their root problem, which is their lack of self-esteem, which then gives the cycle more fuel to continue. So, it's better to let these relationships die a natural, painless death, or else keep them at arm's length.

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Life Lesson # 15:

Everyone sucks from time to time. (Air travel brings out the worst in most of us, which I just witnessed!) But I believe that people, for the most part, are doing the best they can with what they have -- or don't have. We all just fall short sometimes.

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Life Lesson #16:

Every now and then a girl needs a day to do absolutely nothing.

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Life Lesson #17:

The Mexicans have got good food figured out,

but they fall short when it comes to desserts.

Does anyone like flan?

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Life Lesson #18:

Never underestimate the power and the freedom in honesty.

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Life Lesson # 19:

Love is complicated.

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Life Lesson #20:

To have a happy and healthy relationship with anyone takes time and effort,

but there is nothing else worth putting in time and effort more

than having happy and healthy relationships.

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Life Lesson #22:

Most of us in the U.S. have absolutely NOTHING to ever complain about.

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Life Lesson #23

The second most important decision a person makes in her life is whom to marry.