Abraham Maslow is a bit of a hero of mine.
According to
Theory -> Knowledge -> Practice^Life = A Good Life
“The serious thing for each person to recognise vividly and poignantly, each for himself, is that every falling away from species-virtue, every crime against one’s own nature, every evil act, every one without exception records itself in our unconscious and makes us despise ourselves. Karen Horney had a good word to describe this unconscious perceiving and remembering; she said it “registers.” If we do something we are ashamed of, it “registers” to our discredit, and if we do something honest or fine or good, it “registers” to our credit. The net results ultimately are either one or the other—either we respect and accept ourselves or we despise ourselves and feel contemptible, worthless, and unlovable.”
Abraham Maslow in Toward a Psychology of Being
We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – Self Reliance
“Man is not born perfect. He is born incomplete, he is born as a process. He is born on the way, as a pilgrim. That is his agony and his ecstasy, too; agony because he cannot rest, he has to go ahead, he has always to go ahead. He has to seek and search and explore. He has to become, because his being arises only through becoming. Becoming is his being. He can only be if he is on the move. Evolution is intrinsic to man’s nature, evolution is his very soul. And those who take themselves for granted remain unfulfilled. Those who think they are born complete remain unevolved. Then the seed remains the seed. It never becomes a tree and never knows the joys of spring and the sunshine and the rain, and the ecstasy of bursting into millions of flowers. That explosion is the fulfilment, that explosion is what existence is all about—exploding into millions of flowers. When the potential becomes the actual, only then is man fulfilled.”
Osho
We start every day with a clean slate.
We all have a “SelfImageOmeter” or “SelfEsteemOmeter”, picture it however you like in your mind.
-Ometer on 100.
Then we start making decisions and choices.
Roll over & go back to sleep. -1.
or
Smile, 5-4-3-2-1, Launch Your BFHA Outta Bed & get cracking with another Gift of a Day. +1.
You are either at 101 & starting to dominate the day and show yourself who is the Boss, or you are at 99 on your SelfImageOmeter, and you need to turn it round fast, otherwise you are on the slippery slope of compounding, to another shitty day that will end in in recrimination, distraction and uncomfortable numbness.
The simplest and quickest way to live a Good Life, keep +1ing, over & over.
Me