Girl, Wash Your FaceSample

     I hope, pray, wish, cross my fingers and my toes that you will look around and   find an opportunity to be your own hero. Every woman should feel that kind of   pride, but if you’re seeking change you shouldn’t just want that for yourself; you should need it. You need to set a goal for yourself and then work your butt off to get there. I don’t care if that goal is to pay off your credit card or lose ten pounds or run an Iron Man. You need to make a move right now while you’re still on fire from this Plan about what goal you’re setting for yourself. Then you need to go do it. You need to prove to yourself that you can do it. You need to prove to yourself that you are capable of anything you set your mind to.
 

    You have the power.
 

    You, exhausted mother of three who’s considering heading back to work but   afraid she’s been out of the loop too long. You, fifty pounds overweight and   conscious that your health is in jeopardy if you don’t make drastic change.   You, in your early twenties who wants love but gives away your body in order   to feel connection and instead only feels emptier. You, who wants better   relationships with the people you love but can’t let go of your anger in   order to get there. You, all of you, any of you. Stop waiting for someone   else to fix your life! Stop assuming that someday it will magically improve   on its own. Stop presuming that if you   only had the right job, the right man, the right house, the right car, the right   whatever that your life will become what you’ve always dreamed of. Be honest   about who you are and what you need to do to make change.
 

    Girl, get ahold of your life. Stop medicating, stop hiding out, stop being   afraid, stop giving away pieces of yourself, stop saying you can’t do it.   Stop the negative self-talk, stop abusing your body, stop putting it off for   tomorrow or Monday or next year. Stop crying about what happened and take   control of what happens next. Get up, right now. Rise up from where you’ve   been, scrub away the tears and the pain of yesterday, and start again . . .   Girl, wash your face!