Favorite Inspirational Quotes

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Maybe no one can.  However, this is a lot easier said as an adult.  In our society, any child who is different will meet with those who pick on him.  Any child who takes a path that is unusual will also meet resistance and scorn.  It’s hard for a child to not come to feel inferior when he is treated that way growing up.

And no matter how much education, training and self improvement is carried out into adulthood, that inferiority can remain.  Yes, it is up to the individual to overcome it.  Few can help him.  But we need to open our eyes and see what we do to those who are different or unusual.

Now speaking as an adult, how do you keep from allowing others to make you feel inferior?  One thing we can do is stop running those images in our minds over and over where someone put us down, or made fun of us, or where we make a mistake.  Instead of running that movie over and over where we make a mistake, we should keep re-running the ones where we do well, where we are recognized and awarded, and where we feel good.

It goes back to the 30 Jun post, Find the Good, where we find the good and showcase it.  In this case, it is the good in our own lives we must find.  It is the things we have done well that we must showcase and play over and over again to ourselves.

Maybe make a victory log.  Keep mementos around of things we did well.  Anything that will help us focus on and see all the good and smart things we have done.

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