Your Healthy Self-Esteem

If you like and respect yourself, you’ll have self-confidence. When setbacks come, you won’t allow them to knock you down, and you’ll keep going. When you keep going, you will succeed one day.

If you have low self-esteem, you will take setbacks personally and allow them to stop you. When you stop, you can’t win.

Appreciate the great qualities you have and treat yourself with respect. Get away from people who tell you that you can’t, and that knock you down.  

Strong and healthy self-esteem is like oxygen to your success.

An Extraordinary Life

We know that it is possible to design and live an extraordinary life.

What is, or could be, uncommonly wonderful about your life?

Do you see anything wrong with that?

Keene New Hampshire recently got a $500,000 bomb-proof vehicle from the Federal Government. On their application, they cited a risk of terrorism at their pumpkin festival. A Keene New Hampshire official admitted that they were not worried about terrorism at their pumpkin festival or elsewhere, but “that’s what you have to put on the application to get it approved,” and “what guy doesn’t want to drive around in one of these things.”

The Federal Government is militarizing local police forces with 7 billion dollars of un-needed equipment.

Do you see anything wrong with that?

A reason to get up in the morning

If we don’t have something to pursue, a goal to go after, or a project to work on, we stay inside our personal borders and begin to live in a vacuum, our selves wearing away with worries, troubles, fears and self-pity.

Find something bigger than yourself; often something that involves helping other people, and feel your inner energy come alive again.  

The non-conformist

I was near a TV playing and I couldn’t help but take note of the content of the show and the commercials. Many commercials were for things we shouldn’t eat, drugs we shouldn’t take, personal injury lawyers, and so on. The show itself exhibited bad behavior and ethics all the way around.

It may only seem unusual to the majority who are the conformists, but I think it’s a good idea to think for yourself and take your own path.  

"Your photo here"

Hey everyone! One element of Think Daily from the beginning has been the photos matched to the message. I have collected so many photos and going through them to get one that compliments the message takes a lot of time, but I think really helps. I have taken most of the photos I use myself.

Here is your chance to send me photos that I can use. I can use more photos in my collection of people – in groups interacting, expressing any emotion, and doing any variety of activities. They don’t have to be great quality or great lighting necessarily.  

I can also use photos that are metaphors and symbols and interesting things. If you send me photos, one day you may see them in a Think Daily message!

Send photos to – [email protected]

Should we avoid pain?

It’s a strange question. On one hand, yes of course we should avoid pain. Things hurt as a signal that they are not good for us. But if we go around avoiding all pain, we’ll never try anything hard, tough, or difficult. If we do that, we’ll never accomplish anything worth talking much about – we’ll never reach our potential.

While we don’t want anymore pain than necessary, and we don’t want the emotional pain that comes from self-torment and misusing our minds, pain is often a right of passage to great achievement. 

Annuit Coeptis

“He favors our undertakings.”

He will, if we show total commitment and be the person we need to be to attract the success we want.

God helps those, who help themselves. 

2016 Human Freedom Index

In a free society, personal autonomy, civil liberties, and economic freedom are inextricably intertwined. “The Human Freedom Index” is an annual publication from the Cato Institute, the Fraser Institute, and the Liberales Institut of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom that aims to provide a careful measurement of the inherently valuable role that freedom plays in human progress. The index published here presents a broad measure of human freedom, understood as the absence of coercive constraint. It uses 79 distinct indicators of personal and economic freedom in the following areas:

Go outside and play

I herein cut and paste the following excerpt from a father’s advice to his son going to college, for your information-

Your brain, social media and binge-watching.

Now that internet access is omnipresent on college campuses, academics are looking at its connection to your GPA and your life after college. One of the first efforts from Oxford (UK) looked at the impact on student GPA from the use of technology while studying. Here’s what they found: while increasing use of email and search engines was positively correlated with GPA, activities such as texting, instant messaging and media platforms like Facebook hurt student GPA. What this is really all about: humans have maximum capacities for cognitive learning through verbal and auditory channels, and with too much social media use, many people hit their multi-tasking limits.

An even bigger distraction is video streaming. A Texas Tech professor estimates that 9 out of 10 students use services like Netflix, and that ~70% binge-watch shows (i.e., watching at least 3 episodes at a stretch). Over the long run, what’s the risk of too much TV and not enough physical activity? By the time you reach middle age, your ability to perform simple matching and numeric tasks could erode. Too much screen time was also associated with premature aging in a 2015 study from the Mayo Clinic, and with depression and loneliness in a 2015 study on binge-watching from the University of Texas.

End of excerpt.

Go outside and play.