The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Never complain and never explain.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Well done is better than well said.
I think there's a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever.