You Make Me This, Bring Me Up, Bring Me Down

I have another goal completed!

For the last week, I spent a lot of time in front of the mirror. Something I usually try to avoid. But every morning and every night I stood in front of the mirror with just my underwear on (sorry for the mental image) and recited the following mantra (as lengthy of a mantra that it is) and then found something about my body that I liked.

I am smart enough

I am good enough

I am confident enough

I am resourceful enough

I am strong enough

I am capable enough

I have absolute faith in myself

I have a dream and I will do whatever it takes to make it come alive

I will turn the impossible into possible

I will never give up

I will not crumble under even the greatest of life’s challenge

I will assume 100% responsibility for my own life

I will expect nothing but the best of myself

I am willing to pay the price to succeed

I will embrace failures

I will conquer my fears

I don’t care what other people think

People will judge me based on what I have achieved, but I will judge myself based on what I believe I can achieve

I will love, respect, and accept myself for who I am

I will have the courage to change what needs to be changed

No, I didn't write it, Google is a wonderful thing after all.  But I really did find it empowering, and I often ended up repeating it a couple of times afterwards; it would just stick in my head. And I spent the last week feeling pretty good about my accomplishments. So I would say mission accomplished and goal achieved.