I
believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis
is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my
bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me
or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. Attitude keeps me
going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hope. When
my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no
dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me.
The
biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm stupid.
I
am Me. In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. Everything that
comes out of me is authentically mine, because I alone chose it -- I own
everything about me: my body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my
actions, whether they be to others or myself. I own my fantasies, my dreams, my
hopes, my fears. I own my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes.
Because I own all of me, I can become intimately acquainted with me. By so
doing, I can love me and be friendly with all my parts. I know there are
aspects about myself that puzzle me, and other aspects that I do not know --
but as long as I am friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously and
hopefully look for solutions to the puzzles and ways to find out more about
me. However I look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever I think
and feel at a given moment in time is authentically me. If later some parts of
how I looked, sounded, thought, and felt turn out to be unfitting, I can
discard that which is unfitting, keep the rest, and invent something new for
that which I discarded. I can see, hear, feel, think, say, and do. I have the
tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive, and to make sense
and order out of the world of people and things outside of me. I own me, and
therefore, I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay.
