I admit it. I am addicted to editing pictures. I just want them all to look good for each of you!
The picture below I took with my cell phone and I have to be honest, all of the pictures on my cell look grainy. I need to figure out how to fix that, until then I will try to fix them through a photo edit program. Anyway, that has absolutely nothing to do with this post.
Yesterday I was at the clinic, getting my arm vampired. Afterwards I was visiting with my S.I.L. Liz. While we were talking one of her coworkers and an acquaintance of mine walks up and says: "You look so good!" Do you know what that did for my day? There is just something about a sincere compliment that helps boost confidence and make a day great!
Last night, while sitting in my WW meeting, another member mentioned how difficult it is to look at herself in the mirror and be kind. I thought to myself: "Isn't that the truth!" Why are we so critical of ourselves? We should always be our own biggest cheerleader. Yet, we are the first to tear ourselves down. This needs to stop! (I am talking mostly to myself here) Start cheering for yourself, celebrate those individual/personal wins. This is a vital part of Habit #7, Sharpening the Saw. We need to take a few moments each day and build ourselves up. Each one of us!
The last several years, I have issued a few challenges on there, this is going to be the toughest I have done yet. Within 24 hours of reading this, I want each one of you to do 2 things. #1 Give a genuine and sincere compliment to someone else. It can be a neighbor, coworker, friend, person you see at the grocery store it doesn't matter who, just do it. Maybe you will help to reverse a bad day. And #2 Look yourself in the mirror and compliment yourself. It can be about anything! Congratulate yourself for finishing a project at work, give yourself a mental high-five for taking the stairs instead of the elevator, celebrate that you didn't eat 6 slices of bacon for breakfast. It doesn't matter what it is, just start somewhere and start building up yourself. You can do it! Damnit! I know you can. Now get to it. Chop-Chop!
Tide detergent, you can now have your soap-box back.
1 comment:
Seeing your picture is what made me click on it - it is a great picture of you! (wow #1 down, that was easy!) No seriously, I know when we were in school we didn't stay as close of friends as we once were - life it happens, unfortunately. However, reading some of these reminds me of why we became friends in the first place it wasn't that you lived kiddy-corner. The item here, from my life, needs to be that people need to start giving honest compliments period. Complimenting someone isn't a pick up line - its a freaking compliment! Because our world is so muddled with who and what we should be, look like, act - people are afraid to really look at someone or talk to them, because you will seem interested. Well, I am interested, in you as a person - not sex. When the compliments come back - people will come back because it is easier to compliment yourself when you hear it, than you actually start to believe it. Now Tide can have their box back. :D
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