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| Accept 100 Percent Responsibility The key to self-esteem, self-confidence, self-reliance, and self-respect is for you to accept 100 percent responsibility for everything you are and all that you will become in life. The instant you accept complete responsibility, with no excuses, you become calm, clear, and positive. The sunrises in your life, and all the shadows disappear. There is one essential part of eliminating negative emotions, and that is the practice of forgiveness. Everyone has been wronged in life in someway by someone. We have had difficult childhoods, negative experiences growing up, bad relationships, jobs that did notwork out, and investments that went bad. Everyone has been lied to, cheated on, hurt, taken advantage of, and abused in someway. Unfortunately, this is normal and natural and an inevitable part of the human experience. The only question is, What are you going to do about it?” Freely Forgive and Forget The answer is that for you to be free, you must free everyone else. For you to be happy, you must forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way. You must openly, freely, and completely let goof all negative thoughts you still think, feel, or experience toward anyone in your life. You must issue a blanket pardon for everyone. At this point, in my seminars and workshops, because of my reasoning, most people agree that, all things considered, they are going to forgive everyone who has ever wronged them in someway. If you agree with the concept of forgiveness, as most people do, then the next question is, Who do I need to forgive?” There are three types of people whom you need to forgive. You must forgive your parents. You must let them go and set them free. You must forgive them for every mistake they ever made in raising you. Many children grow up with an unreasonable belief that their parents, being the most important people in their lives, must be perfect and all knowing in someway. The fact is that your parents are normal people just like you who made all kinds of mistakes because of ignorance and inexperience. You must forgive your parents for every mistake that they ever made in bringing you up. You must let them go completely. Even better, you must go to them and tell them that you forgive them for everything they ever did or said that hurt you in anyway. Set them free and become free yourself. You must forgive every other person who has ever hurt you in anyway every personal relationship or business association, even those relationships and marriages that caused you incredible emotional turmoil and distress. You must forgive. You must issue a total pardon to all those people you still think about from time to time in terms of negativity, anger, and the desire to punish them or get even in some way. Remember, you are not forgiving for the sake of the other person. Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. You are forgiving for yourself. By letting them go free, by forgiveness, you are allowing yourself to go free at the same time. Finally, you must forgive yourself. You must forgive yourself for every wicked, senseless, brainless, and stupid thing you ever did that hurt anyone, for any reason, at anytime in your life. Remember, the person you are today is not the person you were when you hurt someone else in someway. The person you are today is not the person who would ever do what you did at a previous time. Download 0.86 Mb. Share with your friends:
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