Dr. Seuss Wisdom

Today I read, "Oh The Places You'll Go" by Dr. Seuss. I think the last time I read this book was when I was in elementary school, and I didn't remember much of it from reading it as a child. 

In light of all the transitions in my life over the past 8 months and all of the adventures, this book would have been apropos to read embarking on all of them last summer. However, the timing was absolutely perfect and reading it today I was able to be reflect on this journey that is winding down and the one I am about to begin, my new job. 

Not able to keep Dr. Seuss to myself I am including key pages in the book below so that perhaps it can stir some thoughts about your own life as you read:

1) You can get so confused that you'll start in to race down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space, headed, I fear, toward a most useless place. The Waiting Place... Somehow you''ll escape all that waiting and staying. You'll find the bright places where Boom Bands are playing.

2) All Alone! Whether you like it or not, alone will be something you'll be quite a lot. And when you're alone, there's a very good chance you'll meet things that scare you right out of your pants. There are some, down the road between hither and yon, that can scare you so much you won't want to go on. 

3) And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.) 

KID, YOU'LL MOVE MOUNTAINS!