Only "You" Matters!!!!!

Knock Knock? Hello! Funny that I just realized a life lesson that we wish we would have learned years ago. I go through life every day ignoring what really matters to me and taking on problems and stresses of other people, ignoring what matters or is significatly relevant to my life at this given moment. Does this sound familier to you? Well if you know me there is always something going on in my life. Everyone seems to have an answer for all my problems but me. I on the other hand have an answer for everyone els's problems. Does this sound familier? I think that everyone has, at some point and time in their life given the best advice, yet fail to follow through with what they so passionatly expressed to someone else as an answer to their issue. When it comes right down to who matters its "YOU". When you die, which is inevitable, you cannot take your best friend, your dog, significat other, sibling, etc... with you. You go and face the music. Just you and the big guy,(GOD) upstairs. My point is simply that I have spent the latter part of my life stressed about decisions that I make and how they are going to affect my relationship with others. I may make a bad decision or what I thought was a good decision just to help out someone else's situation or make life a little bit easier for them. When truthfully I made no impact on their issue only satisfied a desire in myself to help others. What I should have done is first:

1. Recognize the Issue
2. Will any decision I make directly affect someones well being?
3. Is the decision Im about to make be appreciated?
4. Is the decision Im about to make or opinion going to be openly welcomed?
5. Is anything I say even going to be heard?
6. Am I taking away from myself by making this decision?

I have found that I make the best decisions or am more willing to be of assistance to others when I am mentally and physically sound. I mean that when I don't have my personal stresses or be it financial stresses then my judgment calls are a little more reliable. Enough with my rant, I just simply wanted to express my thoughts on advice and assistance to one another. Don't make any decisions based on someone else's situation. Do what is best for you, because "YOU" are what matters most besides JC.

~Elliott~