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Day 2656: 6 Life Lessons of 2017

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Every year is a different chapter of one’s life– that’s what I keep realizing.

 

It’s 12: 40 PM on day 2656 of my journey towards independence and I managed to pray,  have breakfast, read and promote my 50 New Feet Campaign benefiting MiracleFeet –  A HUGE thanks to David Boutin, content manager at Social Quant, Inc., who donated $30 which brings the total raised to  $5 506 only $6 994 more to raise by June 17, 2018 to help 50 kids with clubfoot.

 

Yesterday I was thinking about all the lessons I’ve learned this year and just so I wouldn’t forget I wrote them down. Take a look:

6 Life Lessons of 2017

  1. Hope for things to go right but expect things to go wrong (things seldom go perfectly and when you expect things to go awry you won’t be distraught when they do)
  2. A good life is one part noticing the small beautiful moments and one part giving all that you can (this year I recorded one good moment of every day that I remembered and I couldn’t help noticing that all the moments that I considered “good” were ones in which I either appreciated the little things or gave something)
  3. Most moments are meant to lived not captured (nowadays everybody has a camera and with that comes a need to capture every moment but really most moments are meant to be lived not captured)
  4. Some of the best things you do won’t be the things you listed on your To-Do List (I have a To-Do List for 2017 and while I’m proud of having accomplished some of my goals I’m proudest of doing things that were not even on my To-Do List to begin with )
  5. BELIEVE YOU CAN, YOU WILL and sometimes you will even get others to believe in you too (I went PARAGLIDING WITHOUT BEING ABLE TO WALK – when my mother saw someone else taking the leap off the cliff she started to change her mind I saw that, looked her in the eyes and said with so much conviction mom I can do this  at which point she decided to take a leap of her own by choosing to believe in my belief in myself)
  6. You will only ever get that which you have the courage to ask for (this year I asked everybody for every kind of help I needed and while things didn’t always go in my favour some people did shock me by helping me just because I asked)

Day 2018: Life Lessons Learned in 24 Years

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“When you get older, you learn certain life lessons. You apply that wisdom, and suddenly you say, ‘Hey, I’ve got a new lease on this thing. So let’s go.’ ” –  Robert Redford

 

It’s 1 : 32 PM on day 2018 of my journey towards independence and I managed to pray, read 1 John 3,  have breakfast, learn one new thing –Aaron Burr, Jr. (February 6, 1756 – September 14, 1836) was the third Vice President of the United States (1801–1805); he served during President Thomas Jefferson’s first term. After serving as a Continental Army officer in the Revolutionary War, Burr became a successful lawyer and politician.  –   have breakfast and work on my 25 Smiles Campaign – yesterday Reshma Ravi donated $30 and today  Wayne Mansfield of the Jindalee Foundation donated $50 (thanks so much Reshma and Wayne your ongoing support means the world to me : ) ) which brings the total raised to raised $3 562 only $2 688 more to raise by 10 Jan 2017  (SO SO SO GRATEFUL to everyone who has supported this campaign so far :)  ).

 

Today being the day before my 25th birthday (I can’t believe I’m going to be a quarter-century young 🙂 ) I thought about and wrote down all the life lessons I’ve learned in my 24 years of life. Take a look:

Life Lessons Learned in 24 Years

  1. Whatever you believe about yourself you become
  2. The more grateful you are the more you’ll have to be grateful for (trust me, I’m experiencing this in my own life)
  3. Everybody just wants to be heard and understood (even if you don’t agree with them)
  4. Listen (if you’re always talking you never learn anything new because you already know what you know but you don’t know most of what other people know)
  5. True joy and fulfilment comes from serving others without expectation of getting anything in return
  6. The small things in life are the big things in disguise
  7. You get what you give (whatever you put into the world you get back a hundredfold)
  8. Be a trailblazer (if you’re walking your own path in life you don’t have to compete against anyone because there’s no one on your path)
  9. Persistence and hard work pays (if you decide you will work hard for as long as it takes to achieve your goals you WILL NOT fail)
  10. You are the company you keep (the people you surround yourself with will either push you to be greater than you ever thought possible or they will drag you down with them)
  11. If you don’t believe in something greater than yourself you cannot do anything greater than yourself

Day 1478: 7 Life Lessons I Learned from the Bible

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There are so many life lessons to be learned from the Bible – that’s what I keep realizing.

 

It’s 1 : 10 PM on day 1478 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to pray, brush my teeth, read Proverbs 15, publish my Disability of the Day feature, stretch my hamstrings, practice sitting up straight to strengthen my core muscles, feed myself All Bran Flakes with banana  for breakfast, work on my upcoming campaign – I am trying to think of crowd-funding ideas that will not do any lasting damage to my health so far I’ve got starve myself (kids don’t try that), go without water (don’t try that either) or go bald if you guys have any other ideas please share them in the comments section below because I’m honestly stumped.

 

As you may know I read the Bible every day it has taught me so many life lessons some of which I took the liberty of writing down. Take a look:

7 Life Lessons I Learned from the Bible

  1. Take the high road – “Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.” (Romans 12: 14) (Note: I haven’t gotten to Romans in the Bible yet but I’ve read this particular verse a few times and repeated it to myself many more times)
  2. Embrace correction – “Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge,
    but whoever hates correction is stupid.” (Proverbs 12:1)
  3. Work hard – “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.” (Proverbs 14:23)
  4. Create wealth the right way – “Dishonest money dwindles away,
    but whoever gathers money little by little makes it grow.” (Proverbs 13:11)
  5. Surround yourself with good people – “Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm.” (Proverbs 13:20)
  6. Think before you speak – “Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life;
    he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.” (Proverbs 13:3)
  7. In the end all of us will get what we deserve – “The Lord works out everything to its proper end—even the wicked for a day of disaster.” (Proverbs 16:4)