Everyone feels like a failure sometimes. Here's a way to bust that myth before it has a chance to ruin your day: Keep a file containing evidence of your past successes.
Get an honor? Win an award? Put it (or a picture of it) in the file.
Complete a difficult task? Write an account of what you were up against and how you went about it, and put it in the file.
Think back over your past to all the accomplishments that you're proud of. Make a list of them and put it in the file.
Next time you're feeling like a complete waste of the earth's resources, get out that file and show yourself that you're really quite the successful person. You've done great things in the past, and you will continue to do so in the future!
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Thursday, September 25, 2008
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Who Loves Ya?
Sometimes I feel lonely and unlovable.
At these times, I actually go through a mental list of people that I know care about me. I know this seems completely lame, but it works!
It helps to have a real list that you've made when you were feeling good because sometimes (for me, at least) when your brain is in the "life stinks" mode, it's like a difficult child that doesn't want to do what you want it to do. It seriously doesn't want to move out of the pitty party mode into a happier way of thinking, and this pre-written list serves to force it to do things MY way.
At these times, I actually go through a mental list of people that I know care about me. I know this seems completely lame, but it works!
It helps to have a real list that you've made when you were feeling good because sometimes (for me, at least) when your brain is in the "life stinks" mode, it's like a difficult child that doesn't want to do what you want it to do. It seriously doesn't want to move out of the pitty party mode into a happier way of thinking, and this pre-written list serves to force it to do things MY way.
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