Give yourself the identity you actually aspire to, not the identity you automatically adopted before you were old enough to know better, then ‘fake it 'till you make it’.
© Copyright D. Riddell, 2012
Book Reference: Personal Insights (P 258)
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The identity you actually aspire to
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Some addictions seem so harmless
Some addictions seem so harmless, but regularly lay waste to precious lives nevertheless. Consider excitement, beauty, anger, enterprise and profits.
© Copyright D. Riddell, 2012
Book Reference: Personal Insights (P 257)
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What determined your perspective?
Since your life can never be better than your perspective, your first priority should be to explore what determined your perspective in formative years.
© Copyright D. Riddell, 2012
Book Reference: Personal Insights (P 256)
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The difficulty and pain of change
The difficulty and pain of change is the fear of giving away my identity to become someone I don’t readily recognize. Real progress means adopting a new and different identity.
© Copyright D. Riddell, 2012
Book Reference: Personal Insights (P 255)
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Returning to mental health
The key insight to returning to mental health is to understand that it’s better to practise sanity at the risk of feeling unlike ‘me’, than to remain as you are, at the cost of becoming crazy.
© Copyright D. Riddell, 2012
Book Reference: Personal Insights (P 254)
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