Be willing to live a few years how most people won’t, so that you can live the rest of your life how most people can’t. - Mastin Kipp

The first thing I do when I feel frustration is to allow myself to feel it. And then I immediately ask myself, What does this mean? And within seconds I find an empowering meaning. It means I’m learning and growing. It means something better is on the way. This is the contraction before the expansion. I work the problem and try to mine whatever I’m supposed to be learning from it. It can be very painful, but my meaning is: this is how you grow.

Instead of Why did this happen to me? I learned to ask, What am I learning right now?

when you create a vacuum, something new will come along to fill it. This is law. You can only create something new with space.