Craft Your Life

Shape your journey. The beauty of adolescence is the lifetime potential to craft a long, meaningful life.

Learn every day. Embrace gratitude and contribution. 

Here is advice from author Sahil Bloom from his "10 Favorite Ideas." 

1. Identify Situations: Identify the situations where you'd like to show up as the best version of yourself. This can be as big as performing in front of millions or as small as having dinner with your family after a long day. Any situation where you want to be your best.
2. Envision Your Character: Envision the character you would like to embody in each situation. What traits do they possess? How do they appear and interact? What is their mentality and energy level?
3. Get in Character: Nothing works without practice. Get yourself some reps by turning on this character in those situations. See how it feels to show up as your best self in these moments.

Remember that daily actions shape your identity. When you embrace this, your whole world changes.

Decades ago someone reportedly asked legendary journalist Walter Cronkite how to be trustworthy. He said something like, "act like you are trustworthy and eventually you will believe you are trustworthy."

The quote misattributed to Aristotle is Aristotelian. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore is not an act, but a habit."

Visualize your MVB self and make her special. 

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