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I am reminded of a quote of Sally Field: "It took me a long time not to juge myself through someone else's eyes". I really like that quote.

I mentioned the basis of the thought behind this quote in my previous blog. Now, to tell you the truth, I don't remember exactly what I said in the last one so I'll let it slide that you don't know either. :-) However, in this blog, I want to talk about something different. I want to talk about lessons you know, but haven't swallowed yet. Haven't...absorbed into your being yet.

There's an age, I'm not sure when, but you take your parent's advice without a grain of salt and you just listen to them, and trust them so much. Then, one day, you begin to take parent's and adult's advice with more than a grain of salt. Pretty soon, you're not listening to anyone really. Then, gradually, you realize something has to change, and so you start listening to other people giving the same advice that you've heard all of your life, but this time it's different, because this person has told you, and not your parents, a teacher, or someone whom you hold a little bit of contempt for. You know what I'm talking about. Like when your parents tell you to clean your room, and you don't, but then a hot girl sees your room and tells you you should clean your room. Yeah. You know the situation.

I think it's interesting that we know the lessons, but we don't really learn the lessons until the right time. Then, when we learn it, we are little bit changed. Maybe wiser, because now you wonder what else haven't you learned and you are either excited or dreading this next discovery. I think when you think too much about it, change is a bad thing. I think if you think too much about anything it becomes a bad thing. We need to be open to turn off the logical mind every once in a while and take risks, and be open to falling, because if we don't, we have no chance of flying.

I still suffer from doubting myself, everyone does. It's human nature. However, if a person can limit the time spent doubting, and use that energy for something else, it is a lot more productive. At the same time, you don't have to be productive ALL the time, you have to take time out as well. The balance of the two is completely personal. No-one should do that for you, but you.

Everything is a balance in my opinion.

One last Sally Field quote for the believing in yourself mantra, (Yay! I can tie everything up! Woohoo!) "My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'"

Have a great day!

Tim