Recently, I was sitting next to a woman at a meeting who turned to me and said, "Do you know any good gossip about any of these people here? I just love to hear the dirt on everyone." Wow! What a way to go through life...looking for negativity and what she could find wrong with
When I was a child, I had a favorite cousin, Bobbie. She was pretty, smart, kind, and really fun to be around. We always looked forward to spending time together. As we grew older, we lived in different cities and didn't get to see each other so often. I lived closer to my grandmother than
Most of our beliefs about ourselves have come from outside sources: people, education, and experiences. Many of us have allowed the opinions of others to become our opinions of ourselves. We've listened to people tell us things about ourselves and then we've internalized, processed, and believed what they have told us. If they told us
Why is it that having confidence in ourselves and our abilities is so hard? Why do so many of us have the tendency to overestimate others and underestimate ourselves? And, why are we so concerned about what other people think about us? I believe if we are ever going to be able to answer these
