Day 9

This entry is about dating. Actually it's about pre-dating. You must be mentally healthy before you can successfully date people.

Two things I'm working on:

1. Not beating myself up. The perfectionist side of me must die. And with this death, the nurturing, ecouraging, and insightful side of me is born.

I'm catching insults and negitive generalizations and replacing them with nurturing, encouraging, and insightful thoughts.

Instead of:
Oh man I approached that girl and made an ass out of myself. She probably thinks I'm a loser.

I think:
I'm the only one in class who had the guts to approach that girl. I'm proud of myself. What can i learn from this experience? Next time I want to slow down the conversation a bit and really think about what I'm saying and what I want.

2. The second thing I'm working on is trusting people. I believe that everyone deep-down is good. Of course there are people out there who do bad things but a paranoid life isn't worth living.

So I'm simply practicing by saying "I trust this person" and then it's just a game to keep reminding myself that this person is good and i trust him/her.


Awareness is a beautiful thing.