Believing In Yourself - an exercise

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This was a diary entry but since I won't subject too many people to my whinings - let's go with a topic...

One of the features of Spark is daily emails - that if you read you email you collect spark points... some ofthe emails are food showdowns where they choose the lesser of two evils, others are exercises of the day or some interesting article... they also have healthy reflections -which are usually a little too cheesey for me...

Today's healthy reflection was timed about 5 days too late -it's what I've really been struggling with the past few weeks/months/ oh hell - years... and finally got myself going in the right direction -I forced myself to answer similar questions to these the other night when I was really struggling...

Believing In Yourself
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Limitations can either define us or give us a challenge to outwit. When you look at your abilities, do you see boundaries and limits, or do you see possibilities and potential? Obsessing about weaknesses can blind us to the untapped abilities we already have. You have talent. Everyone does. The secret to success is to find that talent, develop it and push it as far as you can. Grandma Moses might have been a lousy bowler, Einstein probably couldn't sing a lick, Michelangelo could've been unable to speak well in public. So what? They knew what they were good at and rode that pony. Your talent might be right in front of you: where do you get the most compliments? What seems to come easily to you? What do people ask your advice for? Live there. Don't let the rest get in the way.
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So for a discussion - name your talent and I know I've got a thread here something similar - my ability to juggle or tie a cherry stem into a knot with my tongue Im not sure really qualify for this discussion.

Answer the following:

1. Where do you get the most compliments?

2. What seems to come easily to you?

3. What do people ask your advice for?


Step right up and don't be shy - let's have a little belief in ourselves...
 
1. Where do you get the most compliments?
I get the most compliments on being able to remain calm in a crisis,
for my sense of humor,
my directness and honesty
creativity in finding solutions
my super spicy chili and brownies

2. What seems to come easily to you?
Cooking
Helping other people thru a crisis
Listening -and asking the right questions


3. What do people ask your advice for?
Career advice
Anything that relies on my life experience -generally problem solving.
 
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1. Where do you get the most compliments?

Being able to explain things.

2. What seems to come easily to you?

Learning new stuff. Although that seems to slow down as I get older.

3. What do people ask your advice for?

Taxes. ;) (They actually pay me for advice about that.)
 
1. Where do you get the most compliments?

The way I raise my kids.
My ability to always turn on a dime.
The way I never give up.

2. What seems to come easily to you?

Solving everyone else's problems.
Pushing myself 110% in Karate.
Empathy.
Uncovering the perfect way to teach anyone anything.

3. What do people ask your advice for?

Teaching/raising kids.
Finding anything online.
Losing weight.

Great thread,

Barbara
 
1. Where do you get the most compliments?

I get the most compliments towards my art, but if I think about the compliments -- they're not that many, to tell you the truth, its just that my art seems to have more compliments than anything else. Compliments towards me or something I do, speaking very bluntly, are rare. Thats the way my community is I guess, many many people just keep to themself unless some one stunning stops by. ( and you know what I mean by stunning, the girl that has pushed breast, thin curved waist, and red stilettos with red lipstick on.)

2. What seems to come easily to you?

Things like imaging the dance moves to peace of music, its like directing in my mind. I gotta say, some people sit for hours trying to be creative. It comes so naturally to me, that I sometimes forget that it is one of my strongest abilites.

3. What do people ask your advice for?

People ask me advice abouts things im a good at, like.. computers.
 
maleficent said:
Answer the following:
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1. Where do you get the most compliments?
um, in all honesty, I think I have been getting a lot of compliments on my looks (I suppose it is a shallow world). Next would be my positivity (when I'm in a good mood :D), and it's not a verbal compliment, but the fact that a lot of my friends want to hang out all the time....and seek me out to spend time with, I take that as complimentary :)

2. What seems to come easily to you?
Compassion, comprehension, sociability, the desire to exercise and eat mostly healthy foods, art, writing, and organization.

3. What do people ask your advice for?
Hmm it's been a while, but lately people ask me about weight training techniques. And relationship issues. Mostly people just vent, they don't ask for help--which is help in and of itself.
 
1. Where do you get the most compliments? I get alot of compliments about being a great mommy that takes great care of 4 YOUNG kids :) I also get alot of compliments on when I fix someones hair and make up either halloween,a wedding or whatever the occation is.

2. What seems to come easily to you? Parenting skills and cooking

3. What do people ask your advice for?
Taking care of other's such as a child or my stepdad that is paralized from the neck down,an elder neighbor of a friend of mine those are examples.
 
1. Where do you get the most compliments?

How people say I have a lot of perseverance

2. What seems to come easily to you?

Thinking of designs.

3. What do people ask your advice for?

Art
 
1. Where do you get the most compliments?

My weight loss to date - nearly 50 pounds
My skill in hockey and volleyball
For making people laugh
For doing 4 years of homeschooling without (too much) slacking off

2. What seems to come easily to you?

Talking with people
Making people laugh
Most sports
My spirituality

3. What do people ask your advice for?

Playing hockey/useless hockey trivia
Discovering music
How I lost weight

Great thread, Mal!
 
1. Where do you get the most compliments?
People compliment me on my honesty, reliability, mad cooking skills, maturity, and intelligence.

2. What seems to come easily to you?
Taking advice and using constructive criticism as an opportunity to learn, math, music, science, and reading/writing/spelling/anything related to the English language.

3. What do people ask your advice for?
Makeup and fashion, dating, and dealing with tough situations involving friends and family.
 
Nasseny said:
1. Where do you get the most compliments?

I get the most compliments towards my art, but if I think about the compliments -- they're not that many, to tell you the truth, its just that my art seems to have more compliments than anything else.
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I'd love to see some of your art, so that I may compliment you accordingly. :)
 
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