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Bite-Sized Real-World Wisdom for Everyday Applications
A single thought has the power to shift your entire perspective!
Filled with practical insights, timeless wisdom, and real-world strategies, every page of Bite Size Life Lessons is designed to challenge your thinking and elevate your personal growth.
* Feeling stuck in endless routines?
This book will push you to rethink your habits, decisions, and mindset.
* Craving deeper self-awareness?
Discover down-to-earth truths that unlock clarity, purpose, and emotional resilience.
* Tired of surface-level advice?
Expect humor, hard-hitting truths, and eye-opening revelations that will reshape the way you approach life.
You're not just buying a book—you're investing in decades of practical wisdom that can shift your thinking for the better, one page at a time.
From overcoming challenges to embracing change, this is your roadmap to self-improvement, personal success, and a life of intention.
Strengthen your mindset.
Stop living someone else's story—start writing your own.
Don't let confusion be your roadblock any longer.
Let this be your invitation to invest in your future—starting today!
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Modern-Day Proverbs ~ Volume 1
Richard Bartrand
Bite Size Life Lessons
Copyright © 2022 Richard Bartrand
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Paperback Print ISBN-13: 979-8-9862224-0-0
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2022908364
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Cover design and illustrations by: Richard Bartrand
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Table Of Contents
DEDICATION
First and foremost, this book is dedicated to those closest to me that have offered support throughout the process of putting everything together and the patience necessary to accomplish this task. The physical and verbal support was most appreciated and will be remembered forever.
Secondly to all of my friends and fans on all social media platforms that have followed, liked, and commented with positive feedback. That has been instrumental in keeping me going along the way by pushing forward when I didn’t feel like doing anything.
Last but most certainly not least in the lineup are those who didn’t even know they’ve helped in any way whatsoever. The ones that gave me inspirational content simply by being themselves, which wasn’t necessarily something good, right, or positive but gave me inspiration nonetheless because inspiration comes from either wanting to learn what to do or steering away from what not to do.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
To a few people that have helped out in the realm of editing the internal layout in regards to spelling, punctuation, and grammar. Lord knows I need a tremendous amount of help in that area.
A special thank you to:
Both my parents, Bernie and Faye for pre-reading. My mother and friend Deb Brode for proofreading, making the corrections necessary to make this book readable to the public without revealing the fact that spelling was not my favorite subject in school, and giving feedback on what they thought about the content in general.
I am forever grateful for your support and kindness.
Thank You.
PRESCRIPTION
Bite Size Life Lessons
Take daily as needed.
SECTION I
Opportunity Presents Itself;
You stand before the closet of choice.
Fear and Boldness hang before you as garments to wrap around and wear this day.
Both are but choices made, constantly shaping your future.
The more you choose one over the other, the more it becomes a part of you as either an excuse to remain in a voluntary prison or a reason to push forward in this conquest we all call LIFE.
Today is the day to take that ragged, torn, and tattered
familiar covering of fear and burn it!
Now reach into and take hold of the remaining choice... Boldness... trembling if you have to… but that is only a familiar habitual broken record that has been planted there by your enemy to control you to work in her field of mental slavery.
The redemption papers have been signed long ago, and fear only has a grip on your life by the lingering feeling of shackles around your ankles.
Those feelings are past lies created by your surroundings and those surroundings are nothing more than walls painted with the mindset of an impossible horizon.
Step with courage into your new life of boldness…
One step at a time...
Until that becomes your normal.
Your circumstances and the attitude you choose to
display from them, are two separate events.
Change failure to opportunity and every opportunity
will be another seed in the garden of your success.
Everything is Always about choice… You either have reasons why you can Or Excuses why you can’t.
Choose what matters most.
Good - Bad / Right - Wrong / Positive – Negative…
We all have choices to make every day, all day long.
Be mindful of what you tell yourself. Does it fit inside of who you want to become or does it keep you locked in an
endless cycle of bitterness and resentment?
Break free now and choose Life.
Fear is not a reason; It’s an excuse.
If deception was belligerent and in-your-face repulsively evil, it wouldn’t be very effective in its profession.
This is proven in modern society by its incessant drive to call good evil and evil good.
Take a good hard look at your inner workings and be totally and brutally honest with yourself to reveal your true intentions.
You will physically exist in the world you mentally dwell upon.
To The Things We Cling
“How are you doing?”
“I’m fine.” OR “I’m crappy.”
Those two responses are usually based on things such as:
I’m good (because “things” are good)
Or
I’m bad (because “things” are bad).
An Example would go something like this…
Life is good because I’m getting along with everyone in my circle, my car is running good, my bills are paid, or my pet hasn’t chewed my belongings into tiny pieces lately.
Or
Life sucks because my spouse is being a #@!%*$!, my car broke down, I got an unexpected bill, I just got dumped, or the weather is horrible.
Question:
Did you know that you can still be “good” or even “joyful,” even if everything in your life is going wrong, just by separating yourself from those outside influences?
It’s only just a choice away… It’s a pretty simple concept.
Choice:
You can either believe it and move past the roller-coaster of emotions by choosing to be good no matter what.
OR
You can continue to be emotionally defined by your physical circumstances.
I wish you the absolute best and hope you make the right choice.
Let your obligations be for the truth, not feelings.
Those that “feel” like they have to avoid something or someone just to save hurting someone’s “feelings,” are more worried about negative conflict than what needs to be said or done.
In other words, we lie to produce temporary good feelings in others instead of the truth for hurt feelings.
But that only gives them a false hope and us true resentment. It’s not a very healthy trade-off and leads to deeper complications.
The truth may hurt someone’s feelings, but you are not obligated to the way they respond, only to what you say.
It’s also necessary that you make the delivery with love and compassion behind your words, but always choose truth over feelings.
Your thoughts are not real until you choose to believe them to be. You are capable of changing your thought process.
Life is a gift… Own it…
Everything you do, do it with the conviction that what you do is already done;
What you want is already yours, where you go, who you are, and what and how you think, do it with all positivity, integrity, pure moral conviction, and an unstoppable attitude.
Pursuing Relationships
When you fight for another person to see things the way you do, you are promoting a negative polarity that naturally repels them, causing them to want to fight for their “right” to return fire by pushing their views back on you.
But...
When you sincerely want to understand the way another person sees things through their eyes, even if you disagree, you are opening up to the positive energy that naturally attracts them, causing them to want to listen to what you want to tell them.
Refocus your aim from a self-propelled message of “you talking,” and switch to a goal of “you listening” instead.
Open your mind, accept people for who they are, invite yourself into a new and different point of view, and focus on loving them right where they stand…
You have no idea what they are going through until you climb into their world.
Stop focusing on their differences and separating yourself from them just because they don’t believe what you do.
Stop making statements about what you believe and start asking questions and listening to what people have to say, then give it everything inside you to understand why they have come to believe what they do.
This is Love...
Act on it.
Thanksgiving…
Add 2 cups of gratitude and
1 heaping smile for a slice of happy pie.
Anticipating the worst possible outcome usually never happens the way we think it will, so why waste a good thought on something that won’t come true anyway?
Equally as well on the other side of that coin… nothing ever works out perfectly either. So, again, anticipating any outcome is a shot in the dark, which means if you can’t predict the future… and your mind can’t help some form of anticipatory projections for future events… why not choose the positive outcome over a negative one and then just accept what turns out as “it just is,” or “this is what happened, now what?”
Assess the situation and continue forward.
Once you train yourself to manage the better choices… stress, worries, anxiety, or any other debilitating emotion... will virtually disappear or, at least, not cause other negative effects your body will have to deal with.
Win-Win
If you look at life through the eyes of your failures,
you will miss what life is trying to teach you.
BELIEVE and expect a miracle!!!
If you wonder why your life
isn’t where you would like it to be...
Ask yourself these questions…
~ Who do I hang out with?~ What do I dwell on throughout the day?
~ What kind of thoughts do I entertain?
~ What do I think of myself?
~ Do I rely on mind-altering substances or non-reality distraction activities to cope with life rather than relying on life itself?
~ How grateful am I?
These are just a few questions to ponder to let the answers speak for themselves. If you’re not happy with your answers... think backward.
Answer the questions in a manner of what YOU would like them to be, then find out what YOU need to CHANGE to make it happen!
~ Hang out with people who want what’s best for you, NOT what temporary feelings can pacify you until morning.
~ Stop dwelling on past issues or future worries, live NOW!
~ Take your thoughts and decide if they are worthy enough to accept into your new life and reject the old worthless ones that keep you down. Just because a thought pops into your mind doesn’t mean you have to accept it as yours.
~ Stop putting yourself down, you are just as worthy as whoever you are putting on a pedestal.
~ Walk away from anything that you rely on to keep your mind distracted from living life to its full potential… in pure form, not altered.
~ Practice gratitude every chance you can to start unlocking life as it should be.
~ If you’ve been putting down this advice and grumbling the whole time you’ve been reading it… you need this the most...
Trust me; life isn’t going to hand you anything you aren’t willing to work for. Yes, it’s going to take work and yes, you can do this!
Be mindful of your thoughts, they are the rudders that steer you in the direction you will go.
Good Morning! How are you today?
Choice #1
Crappy / Bad / Miserable “Because” of (your circumstances)
Choice #2
Great / Fantastic / Marvelous “In Spite” of (your circumstances)
Learn to separate your attitude from your circumstances and watch your life transform before your eyes.
If you give expecting to get something in return, you haven’t given anything.
It was just a transaction. Generosity expects nothing in return.
In the past, I lived in an endless cycle of negativity for a very long time, only to find out that it was always up to me the whole time. Pride will keep telling you to put on the “I don’t care” attitude and keep pushing people away.
