On my twenty-first birthday, I had a life changing epiphany happen to me. The average life expectancy for men in the USA is 76 years. At 21 years old I have effectively lived out one fifth of my life. When I looked back over my life I was proud of my accomplishments but I felt like I could be doing more with my life. I looked back and I reflected on all the days I wasted by just sitting around doing nothing. After a while I decided that I would never be stagnant in my life and strive to improve myself every day.

People constantly pine over the success of others and wonder what that person is doing differently from them. The answer is they are maximizing the twenty four hours that they get. No one is perfect and we all have different potentials. What I mean by that is some people have the potential to do things that others cannot, that doesn’t make them more successful by any means. Being successful means maximizing the gifts and abilities that God has blessed you with.

By deciding to consciously improve yourself every day you are effectively committing to bettering your quality of life. From watching people who have embarked on this path, I have deduced by deciding to improve one increases their happiness and quality of life. So I challenge to take control of your own happiness and use the 24 hour God blesses you with to improve yourself and become the person you want to become.