Re: What Is Your Default Setting?

Hanna — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:00:52 -0000

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Re: What Is Your Default Setting?

Tiffany — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:24:08 -0000

Great food for thought! Thanks for the post.

Re: What Is Your Default Setting?

Fredric — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:12:12 -0000

Extending along this thought is the capacity to enjoy other's accomplishments, as well. When you're able to have a 'default positive' outlook on your own daily accomplishments, you enjoy and appreciate the accomplishments of your peers a lot more.

Too often do we fall back into the competitive crease of judging and sizing each other up, especially as YBP's. We've been conditioned to 'being the only one' that we don't enjoy when we're not! Some of that is because we have defaulted into negating our own accomplishments as a way to never get too hight on ourselves.

As you alluded to in in your post, perhaps the better medicine is feeling good and happy about our successes so that we can continue to enjoy...and encourage others to reach and enjoy theirs!

Great post dude....

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