We must hold ourselves accountable and at a high standard when optimizing our minds and bodies to a highly efficient level of operation. Great mind-body efficiency also helps with efficiency in decision-making in general. This is what self-reliance is all about.

The most important or telling reasons for specific segments of information to be pushed on the general public are rarely, if at all, heard about in the news or found online, and this is where those who put in the time to look and learn more in depth have what some may call an unfair advantage.

Not unlike many other people, I used to believe that the big and cool goals were for the highly confident only. And, because I hadn’t felt confident for so many years, I thought that setting high expectations for myself was simply unrealistic.

Do you ever wonder, how come conformists all over the place routinely fail to see opportunity in adversity, or at least the opportunity that challenges a person to do something different from what the crowd is doing?

I had looked so much forward to having a full-time job and live a comfortable life. It was my boyfriend, Jeff, who at one time vented his frustration by saying, “With the way things are going, I’ll be probably working as a nurse till I’m eighty!” and woke me up, made me think harder about all this.

Bad luck isn’t necessarily or always your enemy. Other people aren’t always enemies or standing in your way, either. More often than not, these are all perceived obstacles.

Your approach to health is a mirror image of your self-esteem. And, your fitness program is a merciless reflection of your present character. It quickly reveals your current level of self-discipline, perseverance, resilience, and self-determination.

While adopting outwardly imposed modifications to our lives and belief systems can be a challenge (for a wide variety of reasons), the changes we make based on our own decisions can, in fact, seem just as hard to start, endure, and bring to completion.

The first time I touched a computer keyboard was at twenty-three during the TOEFL examination, and once I finally landed in the US in August of 2000, a kind graduate student at the LSU library helped me create my first email address.