#cheating yourself

[iamperfectlyimperfect]

Woke up! Thirsty for knowledge, read up on this "Lions Den," registered for the waiting list.

Went to Sean Whalens website and found the first blog post and started to read!

https://seanwhalen.com/my-air-jordan-story/

Take aways:

I have worked on this year's ago in trauma therapy. It was shocking when I realized that the story that I told was not exactly how it happen. Maybe it was how my mom painted my dad out to be but that was not the reality.

(Backstory: Little me was a compulsive liar. Maybe it was to be liked or it was for attention. But compulsive to say the leaat. Some of them even made thier way into being a reality. I will dig into this more later as to how I over came this.)

Since this realization of false realities years ago I had kinda stopped digging into it. I did the work around it but then when trauma work was done I didn't dig into this any further or think about it much ever again.

My reflection is awareness. If I can take away one thing from this blog thats what it would be. Without being aware of story's you've exaggerated and why you may only be cheating yourself.

[rosiehartmann]

I cheated myself.

Every day I go down by Lake Michigan and have some me time.  I try to shut out the world, listen to my music selection for the day and sometimes I write in my journal.  Today I was running late.  I had 5 minutes to sit at the place you see as yesterday’s POD.   It was not enough time.  I cheated myself.

Having time to reflect on the upcoming day, life’s events or whatever feels the need to cross…

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[honestly-truthfully]

are you a spy?

TITLE: Are you a Spy? DATE: November 8, 2013 SCRIPTURE: Happy is the man who is always reverent, but he who hardens his heart will fall into calamity. Proverbs 28:14 QUESTION: What am I willing to give up in order to spend time with God in prayer?…

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[annfriedman]

We’re all familiar with the gut-level feeling you get when you know you’ve cheated. It often follows specific, concrete acts, like peeking at a classmate’s answers on a test or sleeping with someone who isn’t your boyfriend. The gut-level experience of impostor syndrome is something slightly different—a nervous undercurrent that runs through your day-to-day experience, unacknowledged, only to crop up in salary negotiations or in small phrases like, “It might just be me but….” or “Not sure I know what I’m talking about….” If you’re pressed to step outside yourself and try to adopt an outsider’s perspective, maybe you can articulate what it is you feel you lack—or admit that you have the same concrete skill set as your coworkers of similar standing. But most of the time, the feeling remains a quiet, hidden thing that you can’t quite express.

Not Qualified for Your Job? Wait, You Probably Are - Pacific Standard magazine

[prettyphenom]

Don't Cheat Yourself

You get what you put in.

Don’t cheat yourself.

I used to hear this all the time in Basic Training for the Army. When we’d go through the work outs in the Army, sometimes we’d slack off and the Drill Sergeants would tell us “DON’T CHEAT YOURSELF!” You get…

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[callmejam]

Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to tomorrow. Do you know what you're doing when you spend a moment wondering how things are going to turn out with Perry? You're cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you're stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted is gone forever. It's now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you, but now you'll never know.

via Jerry Spinelli, Love, Stargirl