Feeling Good About Yourself

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It's bad enough if that red-headed snipe is talking behind your back or that you think she is talking behind your back. Maybe she has talked about others in your presence and you just know she is doing the same to you.

"That Little Tramp! Do you see how she goo goos the boss whenever he goes by?"

About you she is probably saying, "She's got to stop breaking chocolates bars into her cereal."

To the first you can reply, "I heard it's incurable. She is not goo gooing the boss. She is just trying to see him. Legally blind I'm told."

To the second, you are just surmising so you may as well forget about the possibility. Say to yourself, "That red-headed snipe can not be all bad."

If you don't like putting down others, consider yourself as an "other," and don't put down yourself.

Treat yourself as someone special, someone you love and care about. You will never say anything unkind to yourself.

But there are realities. We need to separate the possible from the impossible, realizing that the "impossible" may be resolvable by others. There may be a solution to a problem that we don't know about.

Here are some things we may worry about:

Body Weight

While the Great White Whale, the hippopotamus, the elephant, the walrus, the Jolly Green Giant or Paul Bunyon does not seem to worry about body weight, most of us do.

Now all we need to do to reduce body weight is to stop eating and all we need to do to increase body weight is to gorge ourselves.

OK, our friend, Angel, eats like a pig and never gains an ounce.

Big Fat John Diet Plan

Go to http://ezinearticles.com/?Big-Fat-John-Diet:-Rules-To-Follow&id=231567 to read about my Big Fat John Diet Plan.

But I've reduced the method to a simple notepad that you can put in your shirt pocket or into your purse. I'm talking about the one that is about 2 inches by 3 inches, not an 8" by !0".

Here is what you do:

When you eat a food item, you write it on one line in the notebook. You don't put "breakfast", "lunch" or "dinner" on a line. You write 2 eggs. Next line: "slice of bread." Next line: "glass orange juice." That's right. The cereal is different from the milk you put on it.

Through the day, you write down item by item what you eat. At some time, you wil come to the end of the page. YOU ARE DONE EATING FOR THAT DAY!

Date the page.

Now, the next, start over. Realize that each line is precious and that you should be selective. OK! A chocolate bar only takes one line. But cutting out salt (use Dash) and sugar are a big help to dieting and to your health.

Well, that's enough of that! Don't get on the bathroom scale more than once in a coon's age. Once a week or so is good enough. But when you do weigh your self, write in in your little notebook on the date you do it.

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When I was a kid in the Great Depression, a friend use to make fun of my word pronunciation. Some words I just couldn't say to his satisfaction. His name is Dick and I saw him at a friends funeral a year or so ago.

He said, "Hi, Moe!"

He is one of the few that still calls me by my nickname.

I got the name because of the way my dad cut my hair. I looked like Moe Howard of the Three Stooges.

Now I look like the bald-headed Larry!

Anyway, Dick was older and he liked to kid me. If he had not saved my life when I rolled down a Ensign Peak like a beer barrel by diving on me, I would still be mad at him.

We were poor kids with floppy soled shoes and holes in our pants where the knees hit the ground. The only people that were poorer where the hobos that came to the back door begging for food. They always got the same thing: beans and bread.

The hobos would walk about a half-mile to our house, passing all the other houses on the street where they Knew they were not welcome. Out address was somewhere in the hobo jungle down by the railroad tracks but I never could find it.

Anyway, we knew we were poor and we knew it was a stigma.

One day I went home from school with a friend. The house was an old duplex. You could see the dirt through the holes in the floor. My friend look in the old ice box and the only thing there was a metal bowl with macaroni in it. It was not macaroni with cheese. It was not even macaroni with milk. It was just cooked macaroni. He offered me some but I refused. I knew how hungry he was and that might be all that he would get that day. His mother was at work. Hopefully she had a buck or two to spend at the store on her way home.

I was so depressed by the experience. I decided that we were not all that poor. I went home to a warm house and there was mother fixing our evening meal, probably beans and bread, my favorite dish to this day.

So, everything is relative, isn't it?

In India they have or had the caste system. You could always find a lower caste than yours. Most millionaires do not consider themselves wealthy. The billionaires are the wealthy ones.

It is best to do what you can with what you can. Use that as the basis to improve your lot.

Whoops! Than sounded like harping to me. Well, do the best you can.

I'm a member of Wealthy Affiliate University. Everyday new members are joining because they are concerned about their future. Some have already lost their job. They are there to learn to earn money on the Internet using free methods and PPC taught there by the two young millionaire computer scientist that own the site.

So these people are doing what they can to improve their financial situation. Some have experience at Internet Marketing and some don't. But financial pressures make them eager to learn.

I help a lot of these people when they join. It is a community.

And a community makes things profitable. When I was a boy and my folks had no money, we seven (7) kids always had a good Christmas. Where did it come from. I've never been sure but it came from our neighbors.

We need to help each other.

When we help others, we are helping ourselves too. We feel different. We feel better. We stop feeling sorry for ourselves.

So, that is one way to improve our self esteem, isn't it?

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John
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I wrote a wonderful module here, brought up the pic, and forgot to save it. So, I'm writing it all over again. It is hell to get old and senile. I'm going to have to give up this writing. I'm going to set up my ham radio station (kk7id) again so that when I'm too old to write, I can at least slobber into the microphone while talking to one of the Christians on Pitcairn Island.

Well, I can't remember all that I said other than it is devastating to lose a relationship or activity where you have put hear, mind and soul.

For example, some years back a man came to my attorney brother and said that he had been fired from a job where he had made many innovations that had increased the profits of the company dramatically.

My brother took the company to court where it was decided that this former employee actually owned part of the company because of the contributions he had made. He got a big settlement and love my brother to this day. (My brother is now in a nursing home because he can not move up here to the cold of Idaho.)

Most of us can not receive compensation for such services. We got our salary and that was that.

But now many are out of work or are worried about losing their job. I see many of these everyday as I welcome them to and help them at Wealthy Affiliate University

Wealthy Affiliate University is the one place they can stay away from Internet swindles and the gurus and learn how to earn money on the Internet.

So they are taking what they have and are making the best of it.

When a personal relationship fails, we feel rejected and out of sorts. We may be angry or sad or both or alternate between the two. Some go into depression or drink or drugs or what have you. Most recover in a short time and get back to business, the business of life.

If you have had a bad event like this, maybe you should think of building a new relationship. Not rapidly, but slowly. Join a different church. Take up bowling. Join a team. Join a club. Write a novel!

I've written a half dozen novel so and it is certainly one way to obtain a new circle of friends. They are not real of course, but if you are like me, you won't know the difference. I'm just as close to my novel characters as I am to other people I know.

OK! So you can go nuts writing a novel if you want to.

Changing a job can bring you into a new relationship. I'm not saying to drop a good job unless you are the one taking out the garbage at a fast food restaurant. Not that there is anything wrong with that.

When we get kicked in the teeth, we have to pick up the pieces and move on.

Revenge doesn't work!

Anger doesn't work!

Excessive sorrow doesn't work!

As Christ said and I'm no using his exact words, when you come upon unpleasant people who will not change, "Kick the dust off your shoes and move on!"

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John
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Jesus Christ said, "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets." Matthew 7:12, King James Version This is called the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Do what unto others? Well, serving others makes us forget ourselves. We become a new person. Jesus told a story as follows which I do not quote but tell you in my own words:

A Jewish man was traveling when struck down by bandits. A Jewish Levite, the builders of the Cities of Refuge, went by passing on the far side of the rode. Then a Jewish Priest went by the same way, also hurrying along to avoid the bandits. But a Samaritan came by and stopped. Now the Jews despised the Samaritans and would have nothing to do with them. Yet the Samaritan bound his wounds and took him to an inn where he would be safe. He told the innkeeper to take care of the man until he returned and that he would pay whatever the cost.

Some pf those who are supposed to give service as needed like the Levite and Jesus Christ said, "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets." Matthew 7:12, King James Version This is called the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Do what unto others? Well, serving others makes us forget ourselves. We become a new person. Jesus told a story as follows which I do not quote but tell you in my own words:

A Jewish man was traveling when struck down by bandits. A Jewish Levite, the builders of the Cities of Refuge, went by passing on the far side of the rode. Then a Jewish Priest went by the same way, also hurrying along to avoid the bandits. But a Samaritan came by and stopped. Now the Jews despised the Samaritans and would have nothing to do with them. Yet the Samaritan bound his wounds and took him to an inn where he would be safe. He told the innkeeper to take care of the man until he returned and that he would pay whatever the cost.

Some pf those who are supposed to give service as needed like the Levite and Jesus Christ said, "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets." Matthew 7:12, King James Version This is called the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Do what unto others? Well, serving others makes us forget ourselves. We become a new person. Jesus told a story as follows which I do not quote but tell you in my own words:

A Jewish man was traveling when struck down by bandits. A Jewish Levite, the builders of the Cities of Refuge, went by passing on the far side of the rode. Then a Jewish Priest went by the same way, also hurrying along to avoid the bandits. But a Samaritan came by and stopped. Now the Jews despised the Samaritans and would have nothing to do with them. Yet the Samaritan bound his wounds and took him to an inn where he would be safe. He told the innkeeper to take care of the man until he returned and that he would pay whatever the cost.

Some pf those who are supposed to give service as needed like the Levite and Some pf those who are supposed to give service as needed like the Levite and Priest , don't. Those who do are called Good Samaritans.

It is not always convenient to help others. But we need to do those needed things anyway, even at our own expense. I have always found that has its own rewards and that I never seem to lose by giving to those who need. Even if I lost, I would still give.

There are lots of needs in our communities. Maybe you can find a good cause. When we lived in Arizona, my friend Mark and I worked for the museum and we built a new museum too. We brought down an old cabin from the mountains and put it up on the museum grounds. I served as the store manager on a schedule and I spoke to the museum members and guest. It was all great fun and I met many new friends. We also helped to build four (4) houses for Habitat for Humanity where we met new friends still.

There are always great rewards for giving. Giving service changes us. We come in contact with those that continually give. We become a new person and we develop new habits and attitudes.

We become a new person.

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John
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Have you ever got one of those little white envelopes in the mail?

You say, "I wonder who this is from?"

Then you open it up and read:

Dear, Rachel,

We loved the talk you gave at our meeting yesterday. We thank you so much!

All of our members loved your discussion about the migration of butterflies. We never knew they were like birds, traveling thousands of miles every year.

We hope you will come again to teach us more about your views of nature.

Mildred Shcharansky
Secretary
West Gobbler Nature Club

Now, you don't know what to do with such a letter. Should you frame it for your friends to see?

Should you copy it and send it to your sister in Alberta?

Should you put it in your picture album?

What should you do with this precious thing?

You end up putting it on the refrigerator door with other precious things.

BUT the first thing you do is call Mildred and thank her for her note.

The telephone rings and it is your sister, Karen. The first thing you say is, "I got a very nice note from the nature club."

When you complement someone, write them a thank you note or praise them in any way, you make them feel good. And what does it do for you? It makes you feel good.

Here are some ways to practice:

You call Sarah and tell her how lovely her flowers look.

You send a note to Mildred thanking her for her note.

You tell Alberta how much you like her new dress.

You take a desert to your new neighbor and say how much you are glad that they moved to your neighborhood.

So, if you want to feel better today, say something nice to someone. You can be on the telephone in a minute.

Fly Old Glory!

John
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