I want to share with you an insight I had at the age of 17, which caused a profound change in my attitude toward self-improvement. This is something I jotted down in my school notebook: "It's not enough just to know you can do it, you've got to do it." After this realization, I began to work much, much harder at my drawing and painting. I had planned to major in art in college, and I ended up going to a well reputed art school, where I did very very well.
And so, that small thought that I had; to get my dream out of my heart and onto what is now called "hard copy" propelled a good part of my education and my life. But you see, I couldn't allow it to own me. A person can be full of freshness and originality. But if she takes it up the ladder of success too fast, she will wake up one day and find that her life is not at all like what she was promised or what she expected.
Between proving you can do it and accepting candy from strangers, there is a vital median. Never cross a boundary that will make it impossible for you to go back into the arms of God. God will always be there, no doubt about that. But the tangles we create in our lives can make it really hard to go back to the place where we wanted to be when we started.
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