If you are going to stake a claim in life, make sure you mean it. You need to have 100% confidence in yourself. Have support to back up your claim–or when you are questioned on it, you will look like a complete fool as you try to defend your view point. If you are challenged on your claim, and you have no support for why you believe such, you are going to sit there discombobulated and will be laughed at. No one wants to be laughed at; you want to be laughed with. So know the facts; that way when you defend yourself you will leave your challenger in the floor sulking in a pool of confusion and sadness.

Life does not give us what we deserve; life gives us what we claim. Claiming something is a proactive process that we have to engage in every single day. Weather you claim something small and meniscal or you claim something big enough to command the attention of a small country; make sure you firmly believe it with all your soul. Because in the end, if we truly don’t mean what we say; we might as well be republicans.