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September 4th, 2006
Confidence Matters
Good Morning,
Hope you are all making the best of this Labor Day weekend. We’re enjoying plenty of family time together before the kids go back to school next week.
take care,
Skye Thomas
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Long Live the American Dream!
Quote of the Week:
"An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he’s in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots." – Charles Kettering, Inventor
“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved,
but at what he aspires to.” -
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Conversational Negative Self-
Most people don’t even know they’re doing it. Throughout the course of normal conversation,
they bombard themselves with negative self-
How many times have you heard someone in a conversation admit that they were misinformed in the past by saying, “Oops, I lied.” Lying by definition is a deliberate and sometimes malicious intent to deceive another. If you were wrong, misinformed, or made a bad assumption, but honestly believed you were giving factual information at the time, then it was NOT a lie. You are not a liar. You did not deliberately deceive the other person. Do not use a negative term like “lied” to describe yourself. Say, “Oops, I misunderstood.” “Oops, I made a bad assumption.” Or, “Oops, I was wrong.” Unless you actually did it on purpose, it’s not a lie and you shouldn’t call yourself a liar. It amazes me how many people say “I lied!” repeatedly during normal conversation as if they are habitual liars or something. It’s a derogatory word. Don’t use it unless you really meaning it.
My daughter was telling me about a friend of hers that she was talking on the telephone
with the other night. They were going over a tough homework assignment together.
Every time my daughter’s friend realized that she had written down the wrong answer,
on autopilot she would say, “Oh, I’m stupid.” Over and over without even realizing
it, she kept calling herself stupid. She said it ten or fifteen times within an
hour-
Sometimes the negative comments are disguised as humor. “What can you do? I’m just
a stupid guy,” “Oh well, what do you expect from a dumb blonde,” or “I think my mom
dropped me one too many times as a baby!” The fact that they feel a need to make
excuses for themselves means that they have low self-
It’s a subtle and difficult pattern to break. A lot of people do it without noticing
that they are even doing it. It’s said with the same automatic presentation as the
“Fine, thanks.” That always follows “How are you?” If you think you might be guilty
of negative self-
My daughter came home from school a couple of months ago and every other word was
‘like.’ Like there was this kid at school and like they were like so out of control!
The teacher like had to like send them to the office because like they wouldn’t
sit down and like respect the class. I giggled to myself as I stood there fixing
dinner and listening to her 13-
It can really be that simple. Offer to help your friend to overcome their automated
negative comments by playing the same game with them. If they are guilty of saying
a particular derogatory statement repeatedly, then offer to help them to break the
pattern. If you can admit to yourself that you are one of those people that says
negative things about yourself without even really thinking about it, then ask someone
to help you to stop. You would be amazed at how quickly you can stop the behavior
if someone will just make you take notice. Self-
If you are too embarrassed to ask for help, or you do not have anyone that you would
trust enough to help you, then you are going to have to make a huge effort to become
more aware of the words you speak during casual conversation. It is harder to accomplish
by yourself, but still doable. Imagine that the negative statements are cuss words.
You wouldn’t want to throw those kinds of words out around your boss would you?
You wouldn’t want to use them around children would you? You wouldn’t use them
around your grandma would you? Attach the same ‘no way!’ attitude to those negative
self-
Copyright 2004, Skye Thomas, Tomorrow’s Edge
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Skye Thomas is the CEO of Tomorrow’s Edge, an Internet leader in inspiring leaps
of faith. She became a writer in 1999 after twenty years of studying personal growth,
motivation, soulmates, self-
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