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It's no small feat to consistently think well of yourself--to regard yourself with warmth and compassion and respect, the same way you would regard someone else you care about. A lot of us wrestle deeply and daily with this challenge. And if you do, then you know how painful it can be. Therapists' full calendars and the existence of jobs like mine attest to this reality.  The implications of not thinking well of ourselves can be grave. But the impact of the opposite can be transformational.  In this episode, I'll share a recent chapter from my own story to illustrate the point, and I'll give you a tool to help you begin thinking well of yourself today.    Ski Day Downer My wife was in the passenger seat next to me and our boys were bundled up, helmeted, and goggled in the backseat. In most ways, it was a normal snowy Saturday morning for our family as we made our way to the ski mountain for a few hours of fun together. In one way, though, this morning was a bit different than others, and it was about to take a turn for the worse.  For a day or so, a dark cloud had been hanging over me. It's been long enough now that I don't remember why, specifically, but I do remember that I was unusually dark and brooding that morning, struggling to stay afloat in a stormy sea of self-doubt and self-condemnation.  Earlier, I'd asked my wife if she'd be up for me processing verbally with her, but we hadn't found a good time in the midst of getting out the door. Now, as I drove us to the mountain, my internal pressure was mounting, and I made a decision I almost instantly regretted.  I turned to my wife and just started unloading all of the crap that had been building up inside of me. I don't remember exactly what I said, but I do know that it was full of “I can'ts” and “I'm nots” and “I'll nevers.” And I do know that after a couple of minutes of spewing unfiltered negativity, I felt worse, not better, and clearly the same was true for my wife. My dark cloud had spread and now hung over her head, too. She had become a victim of the same toxic negativity I was subjecting myself to.  No. Bueno.  Those brief couple of minutes put a damper on the rest of the day.    The Upside of the Ski Day Downer I regret the darkness that I brought into my wife's day on that occasion. AND...in hindsight, I'm also super grateful for what that moment revealed to me.  I've known for a long time that it's easier for me to think poorly of myself than it is to think well of myself. It's more instinctive to doubt myself than to trust myself and more familiar, sadly, to condemn myself than to affirm myself. I even have some awareness of where those unfortunate tendencies originated and why they persist. It's something I've wanted to change and something I've worked on. But WOW. Until that moment in the car, it wasn't clear to me just how invasive, pervasive, and destructive my negativity was. Frankly, it was appalling to realize.  That negativity hurts me, yes, AND it hurts others.  So with fresh resolve fueled by this new awareness, I set about to improve the situation. Insight + Action = Transformation. The approach I've taken is the tool I want to share with you today. We'll get to that in a minute. But first, let's talk baseball.   Which Base are You On? If life was a baseball diamond--and I'm not a baseball guy, so apologies in advance if I bungle this metaphor--but if life was a baseball diamond, then all of us entered adulthood at different places on the diamond in terms of our ability to think well of ourselves. Some of us entered adulthood rounding third base on the way to home. Some of us haven't even gotten up to bat yet. And let's be honest, some of us are still toying with whether we even want to play this “adulthood” game at all. We're still outside in the parking lot looking for a cheap scalped ticket to get into the stadium or trying to prolong a tailgate party that has long since been over. No matter which of those descriptions fits you best, both Nature and Nurture are at work. I touch on Nature and Nurture in more depth in Episode 035, Build Your Personal Owner's Manual: Understand Yourself Better, Enjoy Yourself More, and Live the Life You Were Made to Live. So for now I'll just define them briefly en route to showing how they apply to thinking well of ourselves. Nature refers to innate qualities and abilities that influence how we operate in the world on a fundamental, hard-wired level. They're the default or factory settings that we're born with. With the help of the Myers-Briggs assessment, for example, I know that one element of my Nature, namely my personality, predisposes me to idealism. Sometimes, idealism is really helpful--enabling me to appeal to a higher standard and point the way to an even better future. But idealism can also lead to a pretty withering self-critique, if where I am is always and only seen as short of the ideal.  Some of you listening right now are picking up what I'm putting down as you recognize both the blessing and the curse of your idealism.  My innate idealism is just one example of how Nature has played a role in the negativity that developed within me over the years. There are other examples, of course, but for now we'll move on to the influence of Nurture upon our ability to think well of ourselves as adults.  Nurture, in the sense that I use the term, is essentially your Story. And for our purposes today, it's especially the part of your Story that occurred in your childhood and teen years. If Nature is the unformed lump of clay, then Nurture is the potter's hands--profoundly shaping how our Nature gets expressed. Our family, our friends, and our experiences--especially traumatic ones--have the most influence in this area. Were you in a supportive home environment, where you were loved for who you were more than for what you achieved? Or were your achievements or lack thereof a primary measure of your worth? Were both parents in the picture? Where were you in the sibling birth order? What social circles did you inhabit and move between? Did you feel smart or dumb in school? What labels did others give you? Respectful? Troublemaker? Promising? Hopeless? What mistakes did you make, and how did they impact your perception of yourself?  In short, as it relates to thinking well of ourselves, what messages about yourself did you receive from your Story? How adequately did the interaction of Nature and Nurture equip you to think well of yourself as an adult?   Which base are you on?    Taking Responsibility Now, lest we're inclined to begin sliding down the slippery slope of victimhood--blaming our Nature and Nurture for any difficulty we have thinking well of ourselves--let's turn our attention to our responsibility in this area and what we can do to change things for the better.  As adults, it's up to us to get this “think well of yourself” thing sorted out. It's up to us to “parent” ourselves to maturity in this area. We are 100% responsible for thinking well of ourselves.  BTW, I've said it before, and I want to emphasize it again: Perhaps the greatest challenge of adulthood is assuming complete responsibility for ourselves and appropriate responsibility for others. I think many of the world's greatest ills stem from failures of personal responsibility. And the degree to which each of us is succeeding in this area is also the degree to which the world is changing for the better. It's no small thing.  So, if we want to think well of ourselves, and we're willing to take our responsibility to figure it out seriously, then what's next?    A Tool for Thinking Well of Yourself That brings us to the tool I want to share with you today, the one I began to use more intently and intentionally after coming face-to-face with the darkness within on that snowy car ride to the mountain. It's elegant in its simplicity and tragic in its scarcity. No matter your Nature and no matter your Nurture, you can begin using this tool right now to begin thinking well of yourself.  The tool is Encouragement. To be encouraged is to be infused with courage. It's the way forward when we doubt ourselves. It's the way forward when we don't think we have what it takes. It's the way forward when we find ourselves spewing out “I can'ts” and “I'm nots” and “I'll nevers.”  A friend of mine says that everyone is under-encouraged. I think he's right.    Two Ways to Use the Tool of Encouragement There are two key ways to get Encouragement when we need it: One--we can get it from others.   Taking responsibility to think well of ourselves doesn't mean doing it on our own all the time. It doesn't mean trying to be completely self-sufficient. It does mean, though, that we take responsibility for acknowledging what we need and, when we can't meet those needs on our own, enlist people and resources to support us in meeting them. When you're thinking poorly of yourself and finding it hard to right the ship, let your need for encouragement be known to those who already care about you or who are trained to help you. Reach out to a friend, a family member, a mentor, a therapist, a coach. Sometimes, the origin of our difficulty--especially in the case of past trauma--really does need a professional's touch. Sometimes, we simply need someone who cares about us to help us see ourselves more clearly and break the grip of the negativity. For example, I get encouragement on a regular basis from my wife, my parents (yep, even at 47), my coach, and the guys in the original Graveyard Group, where I'm a player-coach. They help me see myself more clearly and think well of myself again when I'm faltering in that area. They pick me up, dust me off, and send me back into the fray of life ready to go another round.  I know. It's not easy to let others know that we need encouragement, but it's essential if we're to take responsibility for thinking well of ourselves--for our own and others' benefit. And thinking well of ourselves sure is a more pleasant way to live. The other way to get encouragement is to encourage ourselves.   Doing this involves both a shift in perspective and a change in behavior. I'm going to borrow heavily from clinical psychologist and author, Jordan Peterson, here, because his counsel is the best I've come across recently on the topic of encouraging ourselves.  First, let's look at the shift in perspective needed in order to think well of ourselves. One of the rules for life in Peterson's book, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, is “treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping.” In the ski day story I shared earlier, I said things about myself that I would never have uttered to my wife or boys about them. I wasn't treating myself like someone I'm responsible for helping. Quite the opposite. If I wouldn't say those things to my wife or boys or someone else I was responsible for helping, then why in the world would I feel free to say those things to myself?  So, to encourage yourself, first begin treating yourself like someone you are responsible for helping.  Then, change your behavior. Namely, borrowing from another rule in Jordan Peterson's book, compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today. Let me repeat that: compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.  This is the behavior that became most important following the ski day debacle and my realization that something had to change. It's a discipline, really, because the familiar well-worn path for me is that of self-critique and self-condemnation. So to do the opposite takes conscious intention and, frankly, a fair amount of work. It's like developing a new muscle to counterbalance the over-developed negativity muscle. It takes time, it takes practice, and it feels kind of wonky at first. It can feel uncomfortable or undeserved or just really strange. That's ok, and that's normal if thinking well of yourself is a new concept.  The specific self-encouragement practice I've embraced is the one I offer to you, too. I simply take inventory of the ways in which I've demonstrated a virtue--like humility, kindness, or courage, of the things that have gone well recently--no matter how small they may seem, of the things about myself and my life that I'm proud of or thankful for. I do this in writing, in my journal, and the end result of any one instance of this practice of self-encouragement is a bulleted list of reasons to think well of myself. Sometimes the list is just a few items long, and sometimes there are 10 or more. The length of the list is less important than the intent behind it, the will to take responsibility for thinking well of yourself.  A particular benefit of doing this in writing is that you can go back and look at old entries to encourage yourself anew and track progress over time. The focus is on how far I've come as opposed to how far I still have to go. And that focus provides fuel for the road ahead.    Let's Recap! Thinking well of ourselves is something that many of us struggle to do and I'd wager ALL of us struggle with some of the time. We're often much better at thinking poorly of ourselves. That's personally painful and also harmful to others, because our negativity infects those around us.  Nature and Nurture heavily influence which base we start out on in adulthood in terms of our ability to think well of ourselves.  The way forward is first to take full responsibility for thinking well of ourselves, then to infuse ourselves with courage by seeking encouragement from others and learning to encourage ourselves. With practice, you really can learn to think well of yourself.  It's good for you, and it's good for the rest of us, too.  You are the One and Only You. There's never been anyone else just like you, and there never will be again. You're here to fulfill purposes that are absolutely unique to you. So remember, you are going to die. But you're not dead yet. Get after it, and start thinking well of yourself today!   I Can Help I know firsthand the pain of thinking poorly of yourself, and it's my sincere hope that this episode has encouraged you and equipped you to begin thinking well of yourself--maybe for the very first time.  It would be an absolute pleasure to be a source of more encouragement for you. Connect with me on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn, visit my website, or email me.  I'm so glad you tuned in today. Don't forget to follow this show, and I'll see you next time on Andrew Petty is Dying.   Follow Andrew Petty is Dying & Leave a Review Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Stitcher.    If You Liked This Episode, These Might be Useful, Too Ep. 019 | The Cockpit is Yours: From Passenger to Pilot Ep. 022 | Tune Out to Tune In: Hearing & Heeding Your Inner Voice in a World Full of Noise Ep. 003 | How to Turn Your Imperfections Into Superpowers: The Key to Unlocking Your Unique Purpose   Check out Jordan Peterson: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (book) Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life (book) Podcast YouTube Discovering Personality (8-Module Online Course) Self-Authoring (online guide to understanding your Story and authoring your future) Understand Myself (personality assessment)

Night Listeners -Not sure if anyone noticed that this is episode number 149. Which means is our 150th show! So let that sink in. Anyways I play a bunch of music from Iowa tonight and surf the internet live on the air. It's like we are in the room together.Iowa Basement Tapes has its own archive of Iowa music. Be sure to check out iowabasementtapes.bandcamp.com and download any of the releases for free. If you would like to contribute any music please send an email to kristianday@gmail.com.Hear us every Thursday at 9PM on 98.9FM KFMG – Des Moines and every Friday at 11PM on 90.3FM KWIT – Sioux City & 90.7FM KOJI – Okoboji. If you miss the show please subscribe to the broadcast archives: https://apple.co/2MzdH5eFind me on twitter @kristianmday#trustkristiandayStrong Like Bear - "Three Wizards" / Quarantine Singles #1 (Ames)Safety Second - "Tomorrow" / Four Elements (Iowa City)The Wych Elm - "Luminol" / Woodward (Des Moines)Black Ink Pen - "Don't Let Me Fuck Up Again" / High As a Knife - A Southeast Lofi Compilation (Iowa City)White Hott - "Bring Me the Night" / Angel in Leather (Des Moines)Captain Three Leg - "How Many Spectrums are You On" / Split with Taco Tuesday (Ottumwa)Captain Three Leg - "Thorazine" / Split with Taco Tuesday (Ottumwa)Ed Gray - "Shoes" / High As a Knife - A Southeast Lofi Compilation (Iowa City)Billy Crystal Meth - "Room 101" / Meth Metal (Ottumwa)Glass Ox - "Your Freedom" / Temptress (Des Moines)Citrus Boy - "Derelict" / ... Not Nirvana (Council Bluffs)Fidgit Noise - "Track 5" / Fidgit Noise (Iowa City)Meet The Squidables - "Morning Mouring" / Beating a Dead Horse (Ottumwa)

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Have you ever struggled to hear the voice of God? Or struggled to believe God speaks to YOU? On today's episode, Dot will be wrapping up "The Heart of a Shepherd" series by teaching us how we can know and hear the voice of God because He is a personal God who speaks to His children. Write This Down: John 10:27 God speaks through creation God speaks through His Word God speaks through His people God speaks through our circumstances, the good and the difficult God speaks through prayer For more from Dot visit dotbowen.com or find her on social media @dotbowen This podcast is brought to you by @cupofjoyministries

This Is The Official Podcast Platform Of Apostle Johnson Sulemam.You Will Get Daily Series Of Profound Teachings & Anointed Prayer Series to Build Your Faith And Bless Your Live; Move You From Where You Are to Where You Ought to Be.  You Will Be Equipped With the Undiluted Word Of Life, Strong & Imperative Enough to Help Achieve All-round Success. These & More Will Be Made Available to You On this Platform By the Restoration Apostle #AJSdaily

What is a cosy mystery? Which podcast made it onto a list of the top 10 crime podcasts you must follow in 2020? Who put an Instagram filter on Adam’s house and have you seen You? On the very first episode of 2020 Adam Croft and Robert Daws answer most, if not all, of these questions. They also discuss the death of M.C. Beaton, Ian Rankin’s charitable donation of £200,000, Bob’s new Alexa, Wisting – The BBC’s best Nordic noir since the last one and Gary Oldman playing Mike Herron’s Jackson Lamb. You’ll also hear Adam singing along to the theme tune and one of Bob’s trademark slurps. ~ Moriarty ~ RECOMMENDATIONS The Caveman (William Wisting Mystery 4) by Jorn Lier Horst https://www.kobo.com/ebook/the-caveman-william-wisting-mystery-4 Don't forget your exclusive Partners in Crime discounts through Kobo. Get 90% off your first purchase using the code CRIME at checkout. And you can also get 40% off all books using the code PARTNERS when you shop using this link: bit.ly/PartnersKobo CONTACT US Email: hello@partnersincrime.online Facebook: facebook.com/groups/crimefictionpodcast/ Twitter: twitter.com/crimeficpodcast Website: partnersincrime.online Apple Podcasts: croft.link/PIC-podcast Stitcher: bit.ly/PIC-Stitcher Google Play: bit.ly/PIC-GooglePlay YouTube: bit.ly/PIC-YouTube

HAPPY MONDAY MOTIVATION! Welcome to the weekly podcast, No More Excuses! Thank you for listening and for sharing your comments... AND for sharing this podcast on your social media outlets! I help people realize their BADASSNESS! And that's what last week's podcast was all about – realizing when you felt like a BADASS! Do you remember when? For me it was when I ran my first half-marathon! I nailed the time I wanted and just felt confident the whole race. CONFIDENCE. That IS your BADASSNESS! Everyone has it, it just sometimes – for whatever reason – hides. We have to learn to let it out no matter what has happened. No matter how many times you've been rejected or feel dejected. It's hard to do that and it's scary sometimes. I help many of my clients with building their confidence. Even if they make lots of money and on the outside appear to have their shit together! Can't find yours? Don't feel like you have much of it? I've heard MANY people say "I wish I had as much confidence as her/him!" I was once told I exuded the confidence of a privileged white male! LOL right? REALLY? I'm not 100% sure what that meant, but I just said "THANK YOU!" What about YOU? On a scale of 1-10, where does your confidence level fall? Or does it depend on what you're doing? Stepping out of your fuzzy-slippered comfort zone can be scary and necessary to help you build your confidence! Listen in this week as I talk more about how your confidence changes as you do things you're comfortable doing or, like me... going against the "norm".  Remember, failure is temporary and regret is forever.  Have a great week and I look forward to hearing from you! Not feeling very confident? Email me - let's set up a time to talk about why! Cheers! Sandi

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Let's talk about and create dungeons! Matt and Rob discuss the essentials of dungeon building: story, theme, ecology, and variation. Your DMs then build a one-page dungeon "live!"  No abusers in our RPG community.  Links:  Rough draft of the one-page dungeon Final draft of the one-page dungeon Link to Dyson Logos' table of random dungeon entrances     Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice Merle Travis - Dark as a Dungeon Pete Seeger - Which Side are You On?

We all desire to become the best version of ourselves. Don’t know the required first step in becoming the best version of YOU? On this episode of Mastering Singlehood, I explain the the most important step and how it will also prepare you for purpose! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/masteringsinglehood/support

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It’s Episode 106 with Amanda Berg-Wilson! We talk about You on the Moors Now, The Catamounts and The Wild Party, opening October 14 as part of Denver Center for the Performing Arts’ Off-Center Season. >>Tickets for You On the Moors Now, running through September 30th. Cast: Matthew Blood-Smyth, Joan Bruemmer-Holden, Anastasia Davidson, Alex Forbes, Sam Gilstrap, Brian Kusic, Luciann Lajoie, Laura Lounge, Jason Maxwell, Jihad Milhem, Alaina Beth Reel, Austin Terrell, Maggie Tisdale, and Joe Von Bokern Direction by Amanda Berg WilsonCostume Design by Steffani Bolmer-DayLighting Design by Sean MallaryProduction by Sara McPherson HorleScenic Design by Randy YonallySound Design by Brian FreelandStage Management by Kristin Fernandez >>Tickets for The Wild Party. This episode is sponsored by Panfocal Photography.

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Topics: 1. Answering the Age-Old Questions of Philosophy: What is Morality? Am I a Good Person? How can I Protect My Kids from All the Craziness Out There? What are We Here for? What is the Meaning of Life? 2. The Breakthrough: A New Moral Awakening for Mankind. 3. Nature's Shorthand: The Four Steps to Deciphering All Moral Actions. 4. The Hidden Purpose of Morality Revealed. 5. A New Description of Good and Evil. 6. The True Moral Division Between Men. Which Side are You On? 7. The Four Realms of Human Action to Consider in Life.

This episode’s guest is the soulful and wonderful Ani DiFranco. With 20 years in the music biz, self-described “Little Folksinger” Ani DiFranco’s influence on fellow musicians, activists, and indie-minded people the world over has been huge. Blending folk music with soul, funk, jazz, electronic music and spoken word, Ani DiFranco has released more than 20 albums, including her latest, ¿Which Side are You On? (2012). From the earliest days of her career, Ani DiFranco has lent her voice and her name to a broad range of social movements, performing benefit concerts, appearing on benefit albums, and speaking at rallies.  She’s a pioneer, a rock star, and a soul sister.  Ani was a featured performer at the 2013 Emerging Women Live Conference in Boulder, CO. In this episode, Ani DiFranco and I speak about: How having kids has grounded her life and effected her music in a positive way Her support of community and connection and the importance of the feminine point of view Her focus on the present moment and relationships in her life The trajectory of feminism throughout the years and the current state of feminism today The hope that we both feel in seeing the wave of Feminine Courage currently emerging in the world And finally, the importance of trusting yourself   Tune in to listen to my conversation "Connection, Community, and the Feminine Voice" with Ani DiFranco. Subscribe to the Emerging Women podcast on iTunes. Transcript Chantal Pierrat: Welcome, Ani! It’s a real pleasure to have you here today. Ani DiFranco: Hi! Thanks for having me! CP: I was mentioning to you as we were chatting [that] this is such an honor. I feel kind of exposed by saying this, but I definitely had a very big girl crush on you in college. AD: [Laughs] All right! I’m giving myself a high-five. CP: [Laughs] Well, I’m not entirely sure that it’s gone away. I was preparing for the conference, for Emerging Women Live, and also our interview here, [and] I was just going, for the last week, back through all the old records. Oh my gosh. AD: Oh, wow. Craziness. That’s something you’ll never find me doing. [Laughs] CP: Oh, really? Interesting. AD: It’s always a bit dicey when I want to learn a new old song, like, “I should play that song, blah-de-blah,” and then I have to pull out the record and tiptoe very delicately through it to try to listen to what I need to listen to. Anything could throw me for a week-long loop, delving back into my own catalog. CP: Well, luckily it’s all there and we can dip into it anytime. What surprised me, though, was your recent record. It was amazing—this morning, when we had to reschedule, I was like, “I really have not spent time,” because I was getting so caught up in the old stuff. And there’s a song on there called “Life Boat,” and I do want to talk about the new record. I know it was last year, but I could not believe how deep and how touched I was by that song. AD: Wow, cool. CP: You know, you mention your child. I guess my lead-in question with that is—in fact, I was actually weeping as I was listening to the song, truth be told. It touched me that deeply. I’m curious to see how—you’re a rocker, sister, you’re a freaking cool rocker, and then you’ve had kids. Not that your music has changed tremendously. It’s still very moving. But I’m curious to see internally if there’s been a shift inside of you and the music to create since you’ve had kids. AD: Yes, I’m sure, there’s been so many shifts. Life keeps knocking you one direction or another, and then you have a slightly new direction with every knock. Kids are a big one, I imagine. I think in a big sense, I have a kind of balance in my life how that I didn’t before my family. I used to just be all about my work. And bringing people joy through music is very rewarding. I noticed that, especially now that I have kids and I get deep into mom mode, you know, when I’m home and I can’t even remember what it i...