How do you see yourself?

Recently I had a chance to travel. I love travelling, always have and never can get enough. It does not matter where I go, I usually find that experience very refreshing and end up doing a lot of self reflection. This trip, it made me realise, no matter where we go, we cannot get away from our own selves. That is one person you cannot run away from :) So, my question is how do you view yourself? Do you like yourself? Do you view yourself as champion? My friend Demetrick tweeted something quite interesting earlier.. He mentioned "I started viewing myself successful person before I became one". This is a very good point. Its easier said than done. I know in my life, I have had to capture my thought life to align with the right thoughts about myself to move in the right direction. Its very easy to be negative about our self. It takes practice to view yourself with the right attitude. So when things go wrong, are you quick to jump on yourself and criticize your self or do you take time to applaud the things you do right and then focus on things that need improving?

We all can do more but we have to take time to enjoy who we are in the process of what we want to become..

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."  Mark Twain

Things...

This was a jacket that I purchased in Vegas, one of the things I wanted!

This weekend I was going around doing my chores, actually folding laundry. I thought to myself "How many clothes do I have?" Do I really wear them all?  Do I really need these all? Often we go and buy things because we want them.  Made me remember there is a big difference between wanting and needing things. Don't get me wrong, I want nice things, we all do! But I want a balance in my life between want and need. Everything in life has to be in balance. So, I have decided for every one new item I am going to buy such as clothes, I am going to give away 3 items. Not only will it help me reduce clutter, but also provide me with the joy of knowing, I know how to part with things. After all, things are just temporary.

Leaving the City..

At one point or the other in our lives, we all move. Either we move out of our homes, our jobs, or from one city to another. This is just part of life. Same is true in our lives, we go through experiences and we decide to move on from things. Not all our experiences are great. Some indeed are very disappointing. But what we choose to do with those failures is in our hands. Its calling leaving the city of regrets! Do we choose to learn from our mistakes and try to become better? Do we choose to go over failures and just keep living those over and over again and beating ourselves with? Or do we learn from it and apply that new knowledge to become better? I see a lot of people who complain and remain where they are, so to speak. I want to be one of those who chooses to leave the regrets behind and move to a better city.