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Posted: Fri, Oct 27, 2023 11:47:04 AM

all of me! well, after changing up my morning routine to adding a trip to use the stationary bike at the rec center, i totally spaced out about this little exercise. i certainly had time before i started working, but i just got right into the task i started yesterday and well, one can see the result, it is 1130 AM MDT and i am finally getting around to this task. i could be all self-deprecating about this, instead i will just take a break from work and pound this out.
i have to admit that once upon a time i would say that i certainly did accept myself, just as i was. that was however, part of the denial i used to feel “good” about who i really was. the lie i believed as the truth due to my constant repetition fed that denial and it was only a few years ago that i decided that i had yet to deal with that. when the lie was exploded, i was out in terra incognito and have been on a journey of discovery ever since. today, i have moved beyond surrendering to my lack of knowledge to a place where i not only accept myself, just as i am, but have come to love that person. it is so ironic that i tell the men i sponsor that they need to find the ways and means to value themselves, when for so long i did not value, esteem, respect or even liked myself.
one of the great things about working from zero is that every day is yet another opportunity to uncover what i am all about. i would love to say that i have reached a point where i know exactly who i am, what skills i possess and what i think about my purpose and my place in the world. what i do know is that i still have a lot to learn about what makes me tick. 🤔
moving on, it is time for me to post this little ditty and get back to work. i still have my job to save and stuff to do to prove i am worth being kept on after the first of the year. i am worth doing what it takes to be a valued member of my team and will continue to make whatever changes i need to make to my work ethic and knowledge about how things work in the world of cable TV. it is a good day to acknowledge my worth, at least to myself.

∞ DT ∞


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Tao Te Ching

☯ The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao ☯

The Tao Teh King, or The Tao and Its Characteristics
by Lao-Tse
Translated by James Legge

Book 2

He who in (Tao's) wars has skill
Assumes no martial port;
He who fights with most good will
To rage makes no resort.
He who vanquishes yet still
Keeps from his foes apart;
He whose hests men most fulfil
Yet humbly plies his art.

Thus we say, 'He ne'er contends,
And therein is his might.'
Thus we say, 'Men's wills he bends,
That they with him unite.'
Thus we say, 'Like Heaven's his ends,
No sage of old more bright.'