Ultimately, while we do not and cannot control everything in our lives, we can take 100% responsibility for the quality of our lives. While you may not control outside events, other people, or the weather, you do have extraordinary means by which to control your experience of all these things, and that means is [...]

Make a mental list of all the things you don’t like about yourself. Collectively, these things are the ‘big stick’ with which you beat yourself up on a regular basis.

What if everything that you see ‘wrong’ with you is hiding something really great?

Whether the song brings to mind for you Buddy Holly or the Rolling Stones matters not. You might not even know the song, at all. And don’t worry, I’m not going to go off on a long diatribe about the twisted ways in which songs like this skew our image of self. Nope. I’m gonna leave it alone. This time…

You can be responsible for yourself, hold yourself accountable for your thoughts, words and deeds - all without beating yourself up when you screw up. Accept the fact that you’ll probably always make mistakes. Last time I checked, none of us were perfect, so it’s very likely to happen. But, when it does…

I was watching a favorite movie the other night (Moonstruck, starring Cher and Nicolas Cage) and a line jumped out at me and made me think. For those of you who’ve seen the movie, it was in the scene when Olympia Dukakis (who plays the Cher’s character’s mother) was being walked home by John Mahoney [...]

From an anonymous commenter to a previous post comes an important point to be made (Thanks, Anonymous!) : How your low self-esteem can disrespect others.
Now, at first glance, that seems an odd statement. But consider this scenario.
Someone pays you a compliment about how nice you look today, and you immediately launch into a dissertation on [...]

When you love someone you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Wow! No kidding, huh?
I came across this quote today and it struck me that long ago I experienced exactly what this quote is talking about. Unfortunately, I didn’t [...]