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I thought to myself, "Yes, yes I do."
Then I thought again - "I'll even take a picture of it!!"
Voila!!!
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| I really don't - even if I sometimes think I do... |
But I did - and, being easily amused, I have to say it's been fun. Even creating it was fun.
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| It's the perfect remedy for a rejection letter! Or just a bad case of 'Monday' |
The contents MIGHT seem minor at the moment. The file doesn't include the cards I have between books on the book shelves. AND it doesn't count two e-mail programs worth of notes.
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| Laptop e-mail. I have 3 new e-mails that I moved to my "I don't suck" folder. |
Making an "I don't suck" file made me realize that I was already doing much the same thing under a different name. So, I went so far as to make a folder on my e-mail program. It'll save me ink and paper. But mostly - it's there for the times I need encouragement.
NOW - the trick, I'm learning - is to go back through and actually READ the contents.
There you go.
I really do have such a file..
I can recommend it.
I think I'll put stickers on mine.....
5 comments:
Wow.
I love it! I may make one of my own as I've been feeling a bit sad lately.
Great idea.
Hm... Really thinking I would benefit from one of these files...
okay, so i haven't blogged in 9 mos and i barely read blogs anymore. but lately i've been perusing my google reader and picking a blog here and a blog there to catch up on, and today i picked yours.
and this was perfect.
because this summer i am putting myself through "i don't suck" bootcamp. only for me it's more like "i am good enough" bootcamp, but same basic idea. i am also referring to it as "mental rehab." this probably goes way deeper than what you are doing, as you say you generally like yourself and just need encouragement, whereas i am deeply steeped in self-loathing and need to train myself to think positively about myself.
i have seen this concept before, only it was referred to as a "happiness file." always thought about making one, but never have. it's time i did. i'll start with a computer file, as i, like you, save encouraging emails and comments. i often cut/paste the emails/comments into word docs, and i think i will keep my "file" as a wrod file rather than an email file. and then maybe my physical file for cards and notes and such (i keep those, too) will actually be a box- you know, like one of those shoebox-size photo box.
of course, being the compulsive tweaker/ can't-do-it-like-everyone-else person that i am, i will have to call mine something different. maybe my "i am not a vacuum cleaner" file. bahahahaha. (suck... vacuum cleaner... get it? :-P)
anyway- must be GOD led me here today. now to just follow through... (yes, i AM good enough and i DON'T suck and i do NOT have to remain a poor-at-follow-through person...) :-)
ack. *wORd file. *photo boxES. :-P
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