Tag Archives: Self-esteem

Sometimes the worst things turn out to be the best things

Isn’t it funny how sometimes the adversity we experience that we thought was the worst thing that could possibly happen, turns out to be the best thing that could have happened!  I’ve known so many people who went through an excruciatingly devastating event in their lives….even to the point of losing everything, just to emerge happier, more authentic and finding more meaning from their downfall than they could have imagined. I was thinking about this last night watching the Grammy Awards.  Adele won 6 Grammys last night for her song and album about a relationship that broke her heart.  She talks openly about this when interviewed, how she writes songs about love and love gone wrong.  She channeled her heartache into growing and overcoming.  From her song writing she has emerged victorious in her resolve to move on better than ever.

Discover the answers in the misfortunes that happen to you, and know it is exactly where you are meant to be.  There is something here in this storm of life that you need to know, something that needs to change, or a new you that needs to emerge.  Learn and grow from your challenges instead of letting them own you.  You are worth it.

Believe in Yourself

The authentic self gives you power, vision, and passion.

You’ll never get something in your life unless you believe you deserve it. You have to believe and fall in love with yourself.  Believe in yourself, your worth, your value.  Dr. Phil

Know Yourself

Nothing is more important than to know yourself.  This makes all things on all planes in all realities easy. 

To grow and change we need to integrate insight into our lives.  The irony is that we create all the situations in our lives to teach us things.  We set ourselves up for lessons and when they come along we feel hurt.  Self-pity means you need to be aware of your illusions.  The very hurt and fear that you feel is part of the lesson you yourself have created.  When you stop resisting the feeling and realized that the persons involved in the situation are just actors on the stage, then you are free to receive insights into what is going on.  If you know yourself, then your life works.  You do not have problems in one-to-one relationships.  You do not set yourself up to be rejected or dumped on, lied to or ripped off.  You do not set yourself up to be bored or frustrated, for you are in tune with and following your creative life path. 

Betty Bethards, The Dream Book

We are Worthy

“So many of us were emotionally abandoned as children and learned that the only safety or thing to count on was doing it all by ourselves.  We fill the emptiness by being beholden to no one.  The alternative is giving and receiving.  We are worthy.”  Sark

Persistence

“Persistence is knowing that in the face of a thousand reasons to be discouraged, you choose to carry on no matter how seemingly hopeless the present situation may seem.  The power of persistence is required especially when you’re dealing with intense, emotionally devastating circumstances or difficult things that have stacked up all at once” 

Chris Attwood and Janet Bray Attwood

Love Yourself

“You cannot be any good for anyone else until you are first good for yourself.  I also think it is impossible to really love anyone else unless you first love yourself.  How can you give another person your best if you do not believe you have anything wonderful to offer”   Larry Winget

You First

Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job. I’ve worked hard on my personal development, and I must admit that this has been the most challenging assignment of all. This business of personal development lasts a lifetime. But here’s the great axiom of life: To have more than you’ve got, become more than you are. Unless you change how you are, you’ll always have what you’ve got. – Jim Rohn, from his classic “Lessons on Life” gift book.

The Things we Regret…Slow Down

“Regrets for things you did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things you did not do that is inconsolable” Sydney J. Harris

SLOW DOWN

Have you ever watched kids on a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly’s erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?

You better slow down.
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.  The music won’t last.

Do you run through each day on the fly?
When you ask how are you, do you hear the reply?
When the day is done, do you lie in your bed?
With the next hundred chores running through your head?

You better slow down.
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.  The music won’t last.

Ever told your child, we’ll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste, not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch, let a good friendship die.
Cause you never had time to call and say “Hi”?

You better slow down.
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.  The music won’t last

When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.

When you worry and hurry through your day
It is like an unopened gift thrown away.

Life is not a race, do take it slower.
Hear the music, before the song is over.

Friendship

A True friend..
Scolds like a DAD..
Cares like a MOM..
Teases like a SISTER..
Irritates like a BROTHER..
And finally loves you for YOU..

PASSION

“The steps are simple…find your passion and live it!” Pam Grout

 

“The average human being squanders his imagination, hoards her love, and has no clue about the depths that exist within his own soul.  People are unhappy because they lead lives that are way beneath them.  They are exhausting themselves on meaningless things.  Pam Grout