I'd like to expand a little on the quote from yesterday. I talked a little about treating yourself like your best friend. Now, believe me, friends sometimes lie to you. They tell you the jeans fit just right when really they're thinking you look like two pigs fighting under a blanket. But they tell you you look great so that you'll go out and have a great time, instead of being self conscious. Do they really think quitting your job to try something new is always the best idea? Probably not, but they want to be encouraging, so they tell you they think it's great! They know that if they believe in you, it's so much easier for you to believe in yourself!
Now PARENTS are there to encourage you, too. But they do it in a different way, as we all know. Your mom is probably going to tell you when your jeans are getting a little too tight. You dad is probably going to let you know how foolish it is to start over in a new line of work in this economy. Parents are not there to sugar coat things for you. They are there to tell you the hard truth, because they know they are the only ones who are going to give it to you. Now, don't get me wrong, your parents are also going to support your decisions when you make the wrong ones, and help you get through, but they're also going to tell you how you should have just listened to them in the first place, too.
So what WE have to do for ourselves is draw that line between the hard truth, and the truth we have to tell ourselves in order to keep striving for our best life. In other words, we have to FAKE IT TIL WE MAKE IT. We have to realize that our dreams might seemed farfetched, and that there are going to be times that we fail, and times that we are not going to be our best or look our best or act our best. But we ALWAYS have to encourage ourselves to be better. We ALWAYS have to pick ourselves up, even when we don't have the strength to do it. We ALWAYS have to tell ourselves we CAN reach our goals. We have to see that the jeans are too tight, but know that with a little hard work, the next time we put them on, they're going to fit just right.
Now PARENTS are there to encourage you, too. But they do it in a different way, as we all know. Your mom is probably going to tell you when your jeans are getting a little too tight. You dad is probably going to let you know how foolish it is to start over in a new line of work in this economy. Parents are not there to sugar coat things for you. They are there to tell you the hard truth, because they know they are the only ones who are going to give it to you. Now, don't get me wrong, your parents are also going to support your decisions when you make the wrong ones, and help you get through, but they're also going to tell you how you should have just listened to them in the first place, too.
So what WE have to do for ourselves is draw that line between the hard truth, and the truth we have to tell ourselves in order to keep striving for our best life. In other words, we have to FAKE IT TIL WE MAKE IT. We have to realize that our dreams might seemed farfetched, and that there are going to be times that we fail, and times that we are not going to be our best or look our best or act our best. But we ALWAYS have to encourage ourselves to be better. We ALWAYS have to pick ourselves up, even when we don't have the strength to do it. We ALWAYS have to tell ourselves we CAN reach our goals. We have to see that the jeans are too tight, but know that with a little hard work, the next time we put them on, they're going to fit just right.
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