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I’ve been reading a book by Jack Canfield (The Chicken Soup for the Soul guy) and it’s titled “The Success Principles”.  Again, I hate to write, and worse yet, I hate to read.  I get my daily dose of vocab vitamins by subscribing to the dictionary.com word of the day – today’s word is “abulia” which will come in quite handy in the future.  But the book is a very good read, especially for slower readers like myself.  You need to read it slowly so that you soak up all the good life-altering stuff. And sorry, there’s no hot steamy sex snippet that you can easily flip to in the middle of the book.

The good thing about this book, is that I read it whenever I need a foot in my ass. You see, the reason I blog so much…and this is my fourth time for today…is that I have to start my social life from scratch.  My boyfriend, whom I had mentioned earlier is in Florida.  Now I’m no sucker for long distance relationships, but  I think he deserves a fair shot : ).  So that being said, with no social life, I have to put my own foot up my ass.  Or put the book up my ass.  Whichever is more appropriate.  I know I made this point in a somewhat unclear and disjointed manner, but I’m sure you get the main idea.

The GREAT thing about this book is that it doesn’t focus on some get-rich-quick crap, given some once-in-a-blue-moon scenario.  As you read along, you find that the author equates success to happiness.  Typing that actually gave me the warm and fuzzies.  So there’s a more realistic approach to being successful, including risk and return, as well as what I refer to as the DIYFS (Do It Your F***ing Self) principle.

I guess a few valuable things I’ve picked out of this book are:

1. Nobody comes by success without failure
2. If you can’t you must, and if you must, you can
3. It takes courage to ask for the things you want