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Show Page 3 The Garfield County Insider April 22 2010 , EverviCounis the lAuGhiNg pOiNt!: ICED COFFEE WILDLIFE REFUGE Recently I spoke to a large number of women and young women in a rural community about selfesteem. But truly, rural community or not, man or woman, adult or teen, selfesteem's an issue that a lot of people struggle with. Namely, lack of. Not having a belief or confidence in oneself is like a house not having a foundation. Without it you will collapse or at the very least crumble and stumble. Confident people have faith not fear. Think about that. When you have confidence you walk tall and assertively. You walk with purpose because you know you are important and that there's a reason for your existence. Life is exciting to you even on a dreary day or even during adversity. When you're confident you say please, thank you and use other manners. When you're confident you make better decisions. You know where you stand on issues especially temptations. So when a circumstance presents itself you don't have to decide since you already have. For example, someone tells you a rumor about someone else. You don't spread it because you already decided you don't gossip. As-a-matterof-fact, you might even say, "Tell me something good about this person instead." When you're confident you want the best for others and it shows through your kindness and love for mankind. When you're confident you have positive self-talk such as, "You can do this," and, "It's okay, you'll do better next time." You don't beat yourself up with negative self-talk. So, for instance, if you mess up on your diet you simply say, "Oh well," hopefully having chewed that chocolate candy bar slowly enjoying every last bite. Then, you simply start over. When you're confident you're loyal to people in their presence and even their absence. You aren't a chameleon. You are the same person to their face as you are to their back. When you're confident and trials come, you know they are for your own 1 rails En REAL ESTATE good, you're grateful for them, you may even pray for more, and you look for lessons in them. You even think, "If this is how God needs to mold and shape me for Him to effectively use me, then so be it," even if it's not what you prayed for or would have ever imagined. When you're confident people want to be around you and or want to know you. When you're confident you don't compare yourself to others. You even live by the following quotes, "To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are," and "What you think of me is none of my business," especially because you can think of far better things to focus your time, energy and thoughts on. When you're confident you assume the best in others and give them the benefit of the doubt. You don't sit in judgment. When you're confident you take time to listen. You have eye contact, turn off your cell phone (even put it away), remove yourself from the computer or television, aren't continually looking at your watch or the clock, are engaged, and ask questions. The only person that matters to you at that moment is the person you're listening to. When you're confident you are fun and funny, but not sarcastic. There's a difference. The former can build people up; the latter, put people down. When you're confident and you accidently wear two different color shoes to school, church, your job or out in public, you laugh and have fun with it instead of being embarrassed and beating yourself up over nothing keeping in mind what American football coach, Lou Holtz, said, "Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it." When you're confident, you choose friends who make you better. You wouldn't even think of having friends who would influence you negatively in any way. 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When you're confident and you see someone being bullied, discriminated against or harassed you find a way to put a stop to it. When you're confident you frequently ask those you lead, "What would you do if you were me?" Or, "How would you do things better or differently?" When you're confident you smile more often. When you're confident you are more respectful in thoughts, words, actions, and even in how you dress. When you're confident you know when to say no. Okay, now you know what to do to be confident. And yes, when you're not confident, you may do the opposite of everything you just read. The only way to be in life is confident. Like anything it's an acquired skill. The more you believe in yourself, the more confident you will become. Don't give up on this process. You can do this. Truly, it's all up to you. And as you do, keep in mind the words of Spiritual Activist and author, Marianne Williamson, who coined the often quoted words, "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." Cynthia Kimball Humphreys is a professional speaker and trainer through her company Every] Counts, LLC. She writes a column for weeklies in southern Utah and is a southern Utah correspondent for the Deseret News. Her column, "GR8NESS," appears on deseretnews. corn. E-mail: kimball@every 1 counts .net Driving in Ohio, we spotted a sign that read, "Wildlife Refuge." Seeing a dead deer lying in front of it, my husband shook his head. "He almost made it." PAINT SUPPLY Paints were a very precious quantity in the good old days, and British merchants could make a small fortune supplying paints to the colonies. One company sent a clipper ship full of red paint across the ocean. It had the very bad luck to collide with another ship full of blue paint. As a result of this disaster, both crews were ... marooned. OLD AGE In conversation, my adult son Larry expressed concern about my future. Confident in my children's love, I announced, "I'm not going to worry about old age. 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