Do you really?
WHAT WAS THE LAST COMPLIMENT YOU GAVE YOURSELF?
What was the last compliment you heard? And if, "Did you take it to the bank and say THANK YOU" or did you dismiss it? What was the last compliment you GAVE? Did you really mean it?
Was the 1st thing you said while seeing yourself for the 1st time this morning in the mirror:
A a positive or B a negative
If you just ignored looking at yourself, or grunted that counts as B.
If it was B the good news is that you can go back and change things. I highly recommend to do so right now.
Why do we spend such little time acknowledging all the amazing things we do day in day out year after year? Remember how you felt when you learned how to ride a bike on YOUR OWN for the 1st time?? I was high from that for 2 weeks, and bruised for a month since I got so carried a way with "I’m riding I’m riding Look AT meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" that braking was out of the question. And those bruises where TROPHIES, sings of a "Fearless-Now-On-Her-Own-Bike-Riding-Hero." Had I lived in Siberia I would have invited frost-bite and worn shorts just to show off my knees. Had I known how to write I mean -spell, and take out a front-page-advertisement in the local newspaper I would have done it. For I felt so good, soo alive, so proud of myself that I wanted the WORLD to know and I talked about it endlessly. Kids know how to appreciate the little things they do. We need to listen to them and learn how to do it as often as them.
Grownups can be such Raisins at times completely forgetting about their plump-juicy-grape-existence and to appreciate it. Stop it already! Don’t worry about what ya’ haven’t done today. Go have a talk with yourself and start COMPLIMENTING YOURSELF!! Sometimes we odd to give ourselves a MEDAL just for getting up in the morning. I mean you might want aspire to more but hey, baby steps will get you there.
Visualize this:
Imagine a giant Stadium, filled with your friends, your enemies, strangers, people you’ve passed on the street and never met, cab-drivers that pissed you off, bosses that fired you or visa versa, boyfriends/girlfriends you dumped or dumped you, parent’s that loved you too much, not enough or just right, casting directors that told ya’ you can’t act, directors that agreed with the casting directors, publicists that turned down your book, teachers that told you you’ll never make it, mentors that believed in you more than you…imagine it filled to the rim with all of them, like at the OLYMPICS waiting for that Marathon Runner to arrive. That Runner is YOU, you are entering the stadium and the CROWD GOES CRAAAAAAAZY. CHEERING YOU ON. ALL YOU HEAR IS YOUR NAME, say your name……….. in my case PAAATI PAATI, PAATI…. STANDING OVATIONS, FLASHES GOING OFF AND NOTHING BUT CHEERS AND ENCOURAGEMENT, EVERYONE IS HUGGING AND SMILING AND SOOOO PROUD OF YOU. IMAGINE THAT!
THAT’S HOW YOUR EVERY DAY COULD BE. TRUST, THAT EVERYONE WANTS YOU TO MAKE IT!! EVERYONE KNEW YOU WOULD MAKE IT. Your life is your Stadium and
YOU HAVE ALREADY ARRIVED !
All you have to do now is appreciate yourself as often as you can a day and while you’re at it, appreciate the PLANET your are a special GUEST on.
love&laugh and thanks for reading -Patricia, aaaaand if you feel like it pass it on…
Paaati, Paati, Paati,
This one is definitely a keeper – excellent. The theme of my entire day has been gratitude. I come read you for a break and whoa, what do we have? Self appreciation. Self appreciation for a guy who has been feeling better about himself as the day progressed. Maybe we can even call it self gratitude. I just feel soooooo………gratified. Keep them coming Paaaatricia.
Let us daily increase in: wisdom, love, gratitude, reverence, healing, peace, joy, happiness, laughter and prosperity.
Blessings X 10,
Ed