A Rich Mind

“When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” This is a great Yogi Berra quote. While this may not make sense it does in the sense that often in life we are handed an ultimatum. And when it’s time to make that decision we may not always be ready or sure of it but we make it anyway. We always have a choice and the path that that choice leads us down is always the right one even if we don’t know it or it doesn’t seem like it at the time. I had a choice a little over two years ago. When my girlfriend of almost 2 years broke up with me I could have chose the easy way but I knew that in the end I wouldn’t have been fixing the problems; only avoiding them. The easy way would have been to drown myself in alcohol and put the blame on her but I would have just made myself unhappy even more than I was. I was sad that it ended. But I chose the hard way. I chose to do some serious self evaluation and improvement, and while this process is not really finite, I just never did it before. I knew th...

A little over one month ago I turned 25 years old. I still can’t get over the fact that a whole year has gone by and so many things have changed in my life while at the same time many have stayed the same. I have been single now a whole year after a bad breakup that crushed me after seeing her for two years. Honestly I was sad at the time but it was what I needed most. I needed to embark on a journey to better myself from within. I knew that in order to improve myself and my future self I had to focus and learn from my mistakes and build on my strengths. I have found new passions as well as rekindling old ones forgotten and have done my best to try new things and learn something new every day. Often times we get stagnant within our life whether it is a job, relationship, health and many other things but it’s important to just recognize it and learn from it. I am always trying to improve on something but at the same time being content in the present moment. But when one gets too comfor...