What we do have control of is our own attitudes, beliefs and decisions, including our willingness to trust.

You can’t control everyone who crosses your path, but you can guard yourself from harm.

What to Do When the World Doesn’t Get You Embrace your uniqueness. Surround yourself with people who can actually “see” you. Don’t follow the pack. Connect to your “higher self” through a spiritual practice that suits you, and leave behind your “small self.”

understanding how relatively powerless we are actually sets us free. The freedom that comes with letting go and releasing our need to control is like none other. We become free to be ourselves and live out our true purpose, which I do not think includes “fitting in.”

When we start removing what no longer serves us, what remains is a world filled with love and positivity. We become free to create and to live out our dreams.

Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, Inc., once said, “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something—your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the

don’t hold yourself back for anyone or anything.

I believe “problems” are the Universe’s way of waking us up and encouraging us to pay attention to our lives.

Your thoughts are not “who you are”—they’re whatever you’re choosing to put your attention on for the moment.