The best present I have ever received...

Was a Dr. Suess Book.... Yes, you read that right.
Not a cheesy gift, but absolutely the PERFECT present!

So which book?   Oh, the Places You'll Go!

My dear friend gave this to me for Christmas and personalized each page with how I should interpret or apply the words - or just overall encouragement on my current journey.

It was a perfect gift because 2011 marks the next phase of my journey - to embrace life fully with this new self confidence, skinnier self, and optimistic outlook on the future.  But 2011 also includes choices and changes that are very difficult - but that's life right? The best things in life often do require really tough decisions.

Ever think Dr. Suess could give you advice as an adult? Whether that advice is a weightloss journey or a personal transformation... the words apply to life so brilliantly.


Congratulations!
Today is your day.
You’re off to Great Places!
You’re off and away!
You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

But the closing was the most profound for me...

Kid, you’ll move mountains!
So…be your name Buxbaum or Bixby or Bray or Mordecai Ale Van Allen O’Shea, you’re off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting.
So…get on your way!

Great ideas or intentions are just that if you don't take action. Move forward, take that step, make that change! Conquer the world!

So...get on your way!

As another friend says it..."keep pushing until there are no more limits.  This is life, this is love, this is living."

So...read this book again!
Here's an audio book link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQRWeZy-S8Q
Or here's a link to the words: http://www.teamhope.com/seuss.htm

Thank you Erin!