From Average to Awesome: Lessons for Living an Extraordinary Life

 

 

 

Chapter 8

Do Your Homework, Then Ace Your Test

 

Set boundaries and live by them, but know when to be flexible and when to stand firm. Also, don't put yourself on a pedestal. Let someone else do that—it's safer that way.

—LAURA HUGHES, LEWISTON, ID

 

Have you ever bounced a check? No, not one where you made an honest checkbook mistake, inadvertently thinking you had enough money in your account to cover things. I'm referring to one of those occasions when you knew your account was on “E,” but you nevertheless, boldly, aimlessly wrote the check anyway. Your hope and prayer was that miraculously, some way, somehow, you would be able to beg, borrow, or find the money to make the deposit into your account before the bank processed your ...