Been there, bought the whole T-Shirt Shop. Several times, in fact.
Listen carefully... I am an expert on this.
1) You are in charge of your life.
2) You set the boundaries and make ALL the rules.
3) Nobody can interfere with you OR make you feel bad without YOUR permission.
4) An insult from anyone means NOTHING - UNLESS you allow it to. Nobody - I repeat NOBODY can insult you without YOUR permission. Read this one over until you get it!!! Learn to laugh at insults. You're fat and stupid if you don't. Did that hurt your feelings? My point exactly!
5) The past is dead. You can't change it - and it can't hurt you - unless you LET it!!! When the past rears its ugly head, I pretend it's a TV show, and I can control the color - pause or play, and control the speed. Sometimes I pretend to speed it up so everyone sounds like Mickey Mouse. And as they're belittling me, I say "what? Can you talk slower? Your voice is kind of funny - did you know that? How long is this going to take? Haven't we already discussed this? What makes you think I have time for a loser like you in the first place..." and on and on - you get the point. Control it. Twist it around. Talk back. Laugh at it.
That's a lot. Take a breather. We're gonna hit the hard stuff next.
6) You are what you THINK you are.
7) You can achieve anything you believe.
8) You are living in the greatest time in the history of the world.
9) You have unlimited resources of knowledge at your fingertips - such as Google.
10) You will decide to be happy and grateful - or not. (which you stated you are!)
Now, let me throw in a couple of assumptions...
11) You are young and have many DECADES ahead in your life.
12) You are in good health and strong.
13) You're here. Great advice and knowledge are here are for your taking.
And one more, just for good measure.
14) You are not cocky and full of yourself. You are here to get advice because you have an open mind and realize there is much you can learn from others.
Not let me list all the points that I see that are against you.
1) Give me some time - I'll come up with something! For someone fat and stupid, you're kind of pushy aren't you? Quit rushing me!
Point made? Success comes from experience. Experience comes from bad situations and/or bad events - even if all of that may have been out of your control. Crap happens. Learn from it. Learn from your mistakes and never let them happen again. Better still, learn from the mistakes of others, and how to avoid them.
See? All the shit that has happened in my life - and look how much I've learned? You can learn something from everything - even if it's how to be humbled and thankful that things "could" have been worse. Sometimes that's what I tell myself - well, it could have been worse. I'm still standing. There is a lesson in everything.
Stay happy, grateful, and humble. Be kind. Everyone has a struggle of some kind that they are dealing with. And one more - forgive. Forgiving doesn't mean you're saying it's okay - it might not ever be okay. That's alright to feel that way. Forgiving is moving PAST something or someone and going forward with your life. Cutting the rope. Letting it go.
Everything I've said is so simple. Mastering it can take a lifetime. I have by no means mastered it, but I'm getting a little better all the time. And that's okay by me - because my standards are what I live by - nobody else's.
I would say good luck - but I don't believe in luck. I believe a person makes their own luck. Follow all this advice - make progress every day - drop any guilt or bad feelings - and you will know no limits, my friend. No limits.
I also draw great strength from my beliefs in something far greater than this world - search for that, and when you find it, it will strengthen and guide you even more.
Listen carefully... I am an expert on this.
1) You are in charge of your life.
2) You set the boundaries and make ALL the rules.
3) Nobody can interfere with you OR make you feel bad without YOUR permission.
4) An insult from anyone means NOTHING - UNLESS you allow it to. Nobody - I repeat NOBODY can insult you without YOUR permission. Read this one over until you get it!!! Learn to laugh at insults. You're fat and stupid if you don't. Did that hurt your feelings? My point exactly!
5) The past is dead. You can't change it - and it can't hurt you - unless you LET it!!! When the past rears its ugly head, I pretend it's a TV show, and I can control the color - pause or play, and control the speed. Sometimes I pretend to speed it up so everyone sounds like Mickey Mouse. And as they're belittling me, I say "what? Can you talk slower? Your voice is kind of funny - did you know that? How long is this going to take? Haven't we already discussed this? What makes you think I have time for a loser like you in the first place..." and on and on - you get the point. Control it. Twist it around. Talk back. Laugh at it.
That's a lot. Take a breather. We're gonna hit the hard stuff next.
6) You are what you THINK you are.
7) You can achieve anything you believe.
8) You are living in the greatest time in the history of the world.
9) You have unlimited resources of knowledge at your fingertips - such as Google.
10) You will decide to be happy and grateful - or not. (which you stated you are!)
Now, let me throw in a couple of assumptions...
11) You are young and have many DECADES ahead in your life.
12) You are in good health and strong.
13) You're here. Great advice and knowledge are here are for your taking.
And one more, just for good measure.
14) You are not cocky and full of yourself. You are here to get advice because you have an open mind and realize there is much you can learn from others.
Not let me list all the points that I see that are against you.
1) Give me some time - I'll come up with something! For someone fat and stupid, you're kind of pushy aren't you? Quit rushing me!
Point made? Success comes from experience. Experience comes from bad situations and/or bad events - even if all of that may have been out of your control. Crap happens. Learn from it. Learn from your mistakes and never let them happen again. Better still, learn from the mistakes of others, and how to avoid them.
See? All the shit that has happened in my life - and look how much I've learned? You can learn something from everything - even if it's how to be humbled and thankful that things "could" have been worse. Sometimes that's what I tell myself - well, it could have been worse. I'm still standing. There is a lesson in everything.
Stay happy, grateful, and humble. Be kind. Everyone has a struggle of some kind that they are dealing with. And one more - forgive. Forgiving doesn't mean you're saying it's okay - it might not ever be okay. That's alright to feel that way. Forgiving is moving PAST something or someone and going forward with your life. Cutting the rope. Letting it go.
Everything I've said is so simple. Mastering it can take a lifetime. I have by no means mastered it, but I'm getting a little better all the time. And that's okay by me - because my standards are what I live by - nobody else's.
I would say good luck - but I don't believe in luck. I believe a person makes their own luck. Follow all this advice - make progress every day - drop any guilt or bad feelings - and you will know no limits, my friend. No limits.
I also draw great strength from my beliefs in something far greater than this world - search for that, and when you find it, it will strengthen and guide you even more.