"Give A Little" - Hanson

Happy day! Hanson's back with words of wisdom! "Give a little heart and soul." I honestly feel like this applies to every relationship in life - friendships, familial relationships, relationships in the workplace, and, of course, romantic relationships.  When people give a little heart and soul, they are invested because they are giving a part of themselves. We should be personal with people, take off our masks and show our true colors.  People don't want to know who we can be like. They want to know who we are.  If you are holding back, "give a little heart and soul." If you feel like you are already doing so, might I suggest that you give a little more. Leave no doubt and let people get to know the real you.

"Take It All" - Adele

This morning I woke up feeling not like P. Diddy as Ke$ha does, but more like the "crumbling fool" Adele describes.  I was blaming myself for things that were not my fault.  I had done my best, but this morning my best wasn't enough.  I pointed the finger at the person in the mirror.  It was her fault that things didn't work out the way she had wanted or even expected.  I spent the morning trying to figure out what she had done to make herself unbeautiful, but that's a different song.  As a I was eating my breakfast, I listened to "Take It All".  Just like Adele, I had given it all I had.  He wanted to take the easy road out, so I let him take it, all of it, every last bit of me that I put into it, hoping that he wouldn't look back and see a "crumbling fool" behind him.

"Keep Your Head Up" - Andy Grammer

"Drop your worries. You're gonna turn out fine ... but you gotta keep your head up."  I think that too often we forget to look past the moment that we are in and see that life will go on.  Sure, life gets hard sometimes.  We all have bad days and times of trials, but there is always a reason to keep smiling and hold our heads up.  For me, the hardest part is dropping my worries.  I worry about way too much. I worry about where I am going with my life and the kind of person I will turn out to be.  I worry about school, my work right now and the career I want to have.  I worry about my family, my health, and, yes, I even worry about worrying.  The times that I am happiest are when I lay those worries aside and live every moment of life to its fullest.  I think it's all the stuff I let myself worry about that gets me down and make me feel discouraged.  So it's high time I dropped my worries, leave them there, and keep my head up.  Everything, including me, is going to turn out fine.