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January 4, 2005
someone else did it too, it seems
If you don't like the story your life has become — tell yourself a better one.
Think about the person you want to be and do what that person would do. Act the way that person would act.
Amazingly enough, once you start acting like that person, people will start treating you like that person.
And you'll start to believe it. And then it will be true.
Welcome to your new self.
ugh.
i found this link on mefi and read the article before the comments.
the smug mefites sure must be some amazing fucking people if, from atop their high horses, they can't find anything useful in this piece.
i came to nearly the exact same conclusions as the author and used essentially the same methods, and produced an amazing - and ongoing - transformation in myself.
so screw all the latte-drinking volvo-driving mefites who think this is "poorly written" or "obvious" or "half-baked poorly-understood regurgitated zen buddhism". it worked just peachy for me. i only wish i'd figured it out earlier.
ah. the author responded. classy.
and, someone said something cogent : perhaps this article is less of a "wake up call" and more of a "pat on the back".
as someone who's recently done pretty much what the author outlines, I can recognize it as something that works.
but for someone who needs to do it (i.e. "old me"), perhaps this article would have little effect.
(speaking of "effect", the author doesn't seem to know the difference between "effect" and "affect" (oh crap, I snarked!))
hey, i'm talking to myself again!
Say it with me, "I'm fun to be with because, I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me."