2. The only thing you can control consistantly in your life is your attitude. You cannot choose your circumstance, but you can choose your reaction to it.
3. If you can learn to accept someone else's shortcomings you can learn to accept your own.
4. Ass crack exposing pants are not for mothers who spent vast amounts of time crawling around the floor.
5. A morning trip to Starbucks can make any location seem liike home.
6. The cure for vanity is a daughter. No one is looking at you anymore. And when it makes her so happy to mess up your hair, that is way more important than what a stranger thinks of it.
7. Take time to enjoy every task, chore and moment you have with your kid. A trip to the grocery store takes on a new joy when the cart becomes Santa's sled and the freezer aisle is the North Pole. People will stare, but if you are too uptight to enjoy yourself because of them your kid will be, too.
8. There is no subsitute for putting in the time to do it right. No lazy weekend morning is worth missing a smile and a giggle from the Little.
9. If your kid is crying they really don't think it's funny if you imiate them.
10. Taking off a workday for a date with your mate is worth it. Especially if that date invloves New Moon and Sushi.
11. You cannot trust most people to not repeat what you say. Make sure you don't mind defending your position if you open your mouth.
12. Smile when you would rather swear. You may not be able to kill someone with kindness, but if they are weak enough you can drive them totally crazy and smile while you do it.
13. Enjoy the place you are in. What was fun at 22 isn't fun at 32. What you define as sucess at 22 is not the same as what you define as sucess at 32. Life changes and life changes you. You have to let it. And, as much as one stage of your life may have been fun, it's okay to let it end. You need an ending to get to the new beginning.
14. You get where you are meant to go in your life.
15. Once you have a kid, if your heart and head disagree you listen to your head. Make as many mistakes and have as much selfish fun as you can so you are ready when that happens.
16. When you accept a risk, you also have to accept the consequences.
17. No matter how old you get, it never gets easier to follow someone else's rules. In fact, it sucks more, but it is also much more vital to your success.
18. Buy better, buy less.
19. There is no subsitute for your own family.
20. Any bad day can be rearranged by a Cadbury Flake candy bar and some loud music.
21. Always say a prayer of gratitude at night. Only ask for what you need to do right by others. Even your enemies. You'll get it. And, you'll sleep soundly at night.
22. Always take time to laugh with your spouse. And when they lose the garmin for the millionth time, remember, you would be much more lost without them.
23. Being a role model is hard.
24. I hate sending personal emails. After two months without internet, I realize how much more time I have to give back to myself and those that really matter when I am not online all the time.
25. Even when you love your career it's just a job. Being a mom, a wife, a daughter. That's my life's work.
26. The fight for women's rights is far from over. The treatment of women, even in countries like the UK is far behind the rights enjoyed by US citizens.
27. If anyone asks you to be less than you are, being seriously awesome is the best fuck you can can give.
28. You will never have all the answers. Learn to live with uncertainty.
29. Pick your battles, but be uncompromising about the things that are truly important to you.
30. Being happy is more important than being right. Knowing it for yourself has to be enough.
31. As Dad says, "opinions are like assholes, everyone has one." But, when someone offers an opinion it's your job to decide what it's worth to you. Because like assholes, sometimes people and their opinons just stink.
32. Being a lady is overrated. But having class in the way you treat others is essential.
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Dad wisdom - you just can't beat it!
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