Excelsior

"If you're ever gonna find a silver lining, 

it's gotta be a cloudy day, it's gotta be a cloudy day. 

If you wanna fill your bottle up with lightening, 

you're gonna hafta stand in the rain, you're gonna hafta stand in the rain."

-Kacey Musgraves

My apologies for not posting for a few days; I seem to be burning the candle at both ends and sleep has become the priority (when I can get it). But I have had a few mantras, if you will, that help me keep on keepin' on. If you're schedule is anything like mine lately, that means it's hectic and often leaves you feeling exhausted. Hopefully these nuggets of advice will mean as much to you as they do to me, and keep you not only moving in the right direction, but hustlin' too.

The first is a Kacey Musgraves song that I may or may not have on repeat in my car. Helps me remember that (much like in Silver Linings Playbook) good can come from the bad, and "if you're ever gonna find a four-leaf clover, you gotta get a little dirt on your hands."

If that is a little too mellow to make you think you're gonna have to work for what you want, there's always this little gem. Because let's face it... sometimes you just gotta remind yourself that if you want something bad enough, you gotta work, bitch (shout out to Sara Nunnery who keeps this as her motto for med school, and life). If I learned anything from high school economics, it's that there's no such thing as a free lunch (cough, TINSTAAFL).

So when "lemonade keeps turnin' into lemons," "work, bitch."

Happy Friday.