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Written by marcandangel<\/a><\/p>\n

\"10<\/p>\n

\u201cLive with intention.\u00a0 Walk to the edge.\u00a0 Listen hard.\u00a0 Practice wellness.<\/p>\n

Play with abandon.\u00a0 Laugh.\u00a0 Choose with no regret.\u00a0 Appreciate your friends.\u00a0 Continue to learn.\u00a0 Do what you love.\u00a0 Live as if this is all there is.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

– Mary Anne Radmacher<\/p>\n

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Many moons from now, just before you take your final breath, I hope, for your sake, that you are able to repeat the following ten headlines to yourself, honestly.<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 I followed my heart and intuition.<\/h5>\n

As our friend Steve Jobs says:<\/p>\n

\u201cYour time is limited, so don\u2019t waste it living someone else\u2019s life.\u00a0 Don\u2019t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people\u2019s thinking.\u00a0 Don\u2019t let the noise of others\u2019 opinions drown out your own inner voice, heart and intuition.\u00a0 They somehow already know what you truly want to become.\u00a0 Everything else is secondary.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is your life, and it\u2019s a short one.\u00a0 Don\u2019t accept false choices.\u00a0 Don\u2019t let others put a cage around you.\u00a0 Try what you want to try.\u00a0 Go where you want to go.\u00a0 Follow your own intuition.\u00a0 Read Quitter<\/a>\"\".<\/em><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 I said what I needed to say.<\/h5>\n

Everyone has this little watchdog inside their head.\u00a0 It\u2019s always there watching you.\u00a0 It was born and raised by your family, friends, coworkers, bosses and society at large, and its sole purpose is to watch you and make sure you stay in line.\u00a0 And once you become accustomed to the watchdog\u2019s presence, you begin to think his opinion of what\u2019s acceptable and unacceptable are absolute truths.\u00a0 But the watchdog\u2019s views are not truths, they\u2019re just opinions \u2013 forceful opinions that have the potential to completely brainwash you of your own opinions if you aren\u2019t careful.<\/p>\n

Remember, the watchdog is just a watchdog, he just watches.\u00a0 He can\u2019t actually control you.\u00a0 He can\u2019t do anything about it if you decide to rise up and go against the grain.<\/p>\n

No, you should not start randomly cussing and acting like a fool.\u00a0 But you must say what you need to say when you need to say it.\u00a0 It may be your only chance to do so.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t censor yourself.\u00a0 Speak the truth.\u00a0 Your truth.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 I did what I needed to do.<\/h5>\n

Every morning you are faced with two choices:\u00a0 You can aimlessly stumble through the day not knowing what\u2019s going to happen and simply react to events at a moment\u2019s notice, or you can go through the day directing your own life and making your own decisions and destiny.<\/p>\n

The greatest gift extraordinarily successful people have over average people is their ability to get themselves to take action \u2013 to physically do something about getting from where they are now to where they want to be.\u00a0 And no, it won\u2019t be easy.\u00a0 But in the end, suffering from the pain of discipline while you do what you need to do is a whole lot easier than suffering from the regret and disappointment of never fulfilling any of your dreams.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0 I made a difference.<\/h5>\n

Act as if what you do makes a difference.\u00a0 It does.<\/p>\n

In life, you get what you put in.\u00a0 When you make a positive impact in someone else\u2019s life, you also make a positive impact in your own life.\u00a0 Do something that\u2019s greater than you \u2013 something that helps someone else to be happy or to suffer less.<\/p>\n

Doing something nice for someone can change the world.\u00a0 Maybe not the whole world, but their world.\u00a0 Read How To Win Friends and Influence People<\/a>\"\".<\/em><\/p>\n

5.\u00a0 I know what true love is.<\/h5>\n

Finding a companion or a friend isn\u2019t about trying to transform yourself into the perfect image of what you think they want.\u00a0 It\u2019s about being exactly who you are and then finding someone who appreciates that.\u00a0 Relationships must be chosen wisely.\u00a0 It\u2019s better to be alone than to be in bad company.\u00a0 There\u2019s no need to rush.\u00a0 If something is meant to be, it will happen \u2013 in the right time, with the right person, and for the best reason.<\/p>\n

As with all things of the heart, there is an ingredient of magic in finding love.\u00a0 There are no coincidences.\u00a0 Everything happens for a reason.\u00a0 Love is beautiful and unpredictable.\u00a0 The best thing you can do is to start to become the most outstanding person possible.\u00a0 The universe will know when you are ready, and when you are, true love will happen, unexpectedly.<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0 I am happy and grateful.<\/h5>\n

Very little is needed to create happiness.\u00a0 It is all within you, in your way of thinking.\u00a0 How you view yourself and your world are conscious choices and habits.\u00a0 The lens you choose to view everything through determines how you feel about yourself and everything that happens around you.\u00a0 You must choose to be happy.<\/p>\n

A big part of this is simply being grateful for what you have.\u00a0 As Mick Jagger once said, \u201cYou can\u2019t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you might find you get what you need.\u201d\u00a0 Look around.\u00a0 Appreciate the things you have right now.\u00a0 Many people aren\u2019t so lucky.\u00a0 Read 12 Things Happy People Do Differently<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

7.\u00a0 I am proud of myself.<\/h5>\n

You are your own best friend and your own biggest critic.\u00a0 Regardless of the opinions of others, at the end of the day the only reflection staring back at you in the mirror is your own.\u00a0 How you feel about this person is vital to your long-term wellbeing.<\/p>\n

Being proud of yourself is also known as having strong self-esteem.\u00a0 People who are proud of themselves tend to have passions in life, feel content and set good examples for others.\u00a0 It requires envisioning the person you would like to become and making your best efforts to grow as an individual.<\/p>\n

Being proud isn\u2019t bragging about how great you are.\u00a0 It\u2019s more like quietly knowing that you\u2019re worth a lot.\u00a0 It\u2019s not about thinking you\u2019re perfect \u2013 because nobody is \u2013 but knowing that you\u2019re worthy of being loved and accepted.\u00a0 Boost your self-esteem by recognizing your accomplishments and celebrating them.\u00a0 Acknowledge your positive qualities, and when you come across a quality in yourself that you aren\u2019t proud of, don\u2019t sulk in your sorrows, proactively work on correcting it.\u00a0 Read Today We Are Rich<\/a>\"\".<\/em><\/p>\n

8.\u00a0 I became the best version of me.<\/h5>\n

It\u2019s a good idea to be yourself, not only because everybody else is taken, but because trying to be anything else doesn\u2019t usually get you very far.\u00a0 Trying to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.\u00a0 Strength, success and contentment come from being comfortable in your own skin.<\/p>\n

Judy Garland once said, \u201cAlways be a first rate version of yourself instead of a second rate version of somebody else.\u201d\u00a0 Live by this statement.\u00a0 There is no such thing as living in someone else\u2019s shoes.\u00a0 The only shoes you can occupy are your own.\u00a0 If you aren\u2019t being yourself, you aren\u2019t truly living \u2013 you\u2019re merely existing.<\/p>\n

Remember, at any given moment, you are in competition with one person and one person only \u2013 yourself. You are competing to be the best you can be.<\/p>\n

9.\u00a0 I forgave those who hurt me.<\/h5>\n

We\u2019ve all been hurt by another person at some point or another \u2013 we were treated badly, trust was broken, hearts were hurt.\u00a0 And while this pain is normal, sometimes that pain lingers for too long.\u00a0 We relive the pain over and over and have a hard time letting go.<\/p>\n

This causes problems.\u00a0 It not only causes us to be unhappy, but can strain or ruin relationships, distract us from work and family and other important things, make us reluctant to open up to new things and people.\u00a0 We get trapped in a cycle of anger and hurt, and miss out on the beauty of life as it happens.<\/p>\n

Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness.\u00a0 To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you.<\/p>\n

10.\u00a0 I have no regrets.<\/h5>\n

This one is a culmination of the previous nine headlines\u2026<\/p>\n

Follow your heart.\u00a0 Be true to yourself.\u00a0 Do what you need to do fulfill your dreams.\u00a0 Say what you need to say.\u00a0 Be kind to others.\u00a0 Offer a helping hand when you\u2019re able.\u00a0 Love those who deserve to be loved, and cherish the bond you share.\u00a0 Appreciate all the things you do have.\u00a0 Smile.\u00a0 Celebrate your small victories.\u00a0 Learn from your mistakes.\u00a0 Forgive.\u00a0 And let go of the things you can\u2019t change.<\/p>\n

Photo by: Garry<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Bonus: Software system realistically adds objects into photos (and allows those objects to be animated).<\/strong><\/p>\n