Recognizing the Power of I AM and THANK YOU

These two phrases can create or alter everything in life for good or ill — as you choose.

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Nobody likes to be insulted. Condescension is infuriating. Being ignored, disregarded, and neglected tend to make us feel bad.

So why do we do this to ourselves the most frequently?

The examples are plenty. And because we get caught up in world happenings, dramas, social matters, and our various needs and desires we tend to miss it.

What am I talking about? How many of these are familiar?

· I am fat and perpetually out-of-shape.

· Damn, I am always running late.

· Why is it that I am so stupid?

· I am never getting anything right.

· Why is it that I am a failure?

· I am a fuck-up.

· I am unworthy and undeserving of success.

· You know I am slow.

· I am never lucky.

· You know that I am a terrible person.

Any of this litany as familiar to you as it is to me? I know I have said to myself many of the above statements. And even when sarcastic, they are based in truth.