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success?

So I'm a doctor.. work in mental health...  Friends and family members ask me questions all the time regarding if they are normal or if their kids behavior's are normal, etc.    Do they really want an answer or opinion?  Probably not, I have learned that the hard way... Everyone wants to think they are 'normal' but what is normal?  Noone these days is 'normal' and almost everyone has something 'wrong with them' or has something major happen in their lives..  Friends want to know, they suspect something about themselves or their children, but they don't really want to hear it from you... something about shooting the messenger...

I do get to to talk with patients all the time but many times they don't follow the advice... 
Here's a piece of advice I read today that makes a lot of sense regarding success in today's world..

When giving the commencement speech to the Vassar class of 1983, Meryl Streep said this:

Real Life is actually a lot more like high school. The common denominator prevails. Excellence is not always recognized or rewarded. What we watch on our screens, whom we elect, are determined to a large extent by public polls. Looks count. A lot. And unlike the best of the college experience, when ideas and solutions somehow seem attainable if you just get up early, stay up late, try hard enough, and find the right source or method, things on the outside sometimes seem vast and impossible …

In other words, success isn’t necessarily about competence. It’s often about likeability. People like to spend time with people they like.         by Dean Rieck

ipad?

ok so I am really excited about finally blogging...now that I finally have created one, I just want to blog, blog, blog!  We are getting an ipad 2 ..finally moving over to the world of Apple, slowly and bit by bit...we are one of the few people on the planet without iphones! (or so it feels at times)...maybe we will make that switch later in the year but the ipad seems like it can do so much ...I am really excited and can't wait to get it! 

day 1!

Always wanted to blog but never got around to it...or when I did, couldn't remember what I wanted to blog about..just decided to do it..  it's funny how life can get so busy that you can't remember what you were about to do 2 minutes ago..  Hope to reach those of you out there that are also busy moms with jobs and too many things to take care of...