How updates on FB are a waste of time...

I do not read facebook updates but private messages: I try to read them all. 

Off late , updates, I've noticed, have switched to a peculiar trend trickling out of network marketing: free advice; people telling others how to love their lives.

Disagreement usually follows despite the good intentions. Arguments inevitably result. And the advice mutates into melt-down drama. I've chosen to be sucked down into this before and I've never found or observed a positive result.
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We live such different and diverse lives that no advice appears to be universal enough to not lead to controversy. We can only live by example of facing our own failures; not boss others to do it when we cannot. People don't usually want advice. Sometimes they just want to find that someone relates to and understands their struggle.

God granted me the chance to become courageous enough to climb, confident enough to walk and certain enough to fly. But always, repeatedly, humble enough to crash, when I think I've found "the way" to do things.

I've made so many mistakes in my life that I feel certain that I can only transparently share my pitfalls. I don't have any answers; only empathy and support. After the privilege of listening to thousands of people's struggles, life has repeatedly demonstrated that every person has all the answers they ever need within them.

The three biggest struggles I've encountered in my own life have been to:
1. Face my past without guilt or shame, but rather with gratitude and compassion.
2. Live my present without hesitation or waffling, but rather with confidence and conviction.
3. Prepare for my future without anxiety or fear, but rather with fellowship and faith.

When I awake, I have my drink of water. Then, I do my morning meditation before my daily exercise and breakfast. My meditation is nothing elaborate and amounts to a mere prayer for proper attitude to empower my purpose:
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'Not events, circumstances or others, have the power to make me happy or unhappy, strong or weak, ready or unbalanced, but myself alone. I choose my day.

Yesterday has given me its gifts, and tomorrow has not yet arrived to offer me yet its opportunities. So, today alone, I will face with ready hands, a clear mind and an open heart.'
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As you face yours, I stand next to you, vulnerable and raw. We may fail temporarily, but by facing them and falling, we can prove to ourselves that we can stand up again; and thereby inspire others to do the same.