Not only has it been extremely self-actualizing, but it has also taught me resilience and self-sufficiency.
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They have helped me become more self-aware and open, and enabled me to understand my blind spots.
They wrote to me about self-monitoring, about working hard to compensate in social situations but then experiencing crashing exhaustion afterward.
"That was Travis' stunt to make me look self-serving, " Armstrong said, reiterating his claim that it was unfair that riders who testified against him received reduced sanctions while he was given a life ban.
"This sort of self-important, self-involved thing seemed funny to me, " he said in the notes.
For me, this self-denial approach would be more in keeping with your old, or early, Earth Day.
It worries me because I don't want him to do anything to hurt himself, and it worries me because encouraging self-harm is one of the most common things that genuine psychotic "voices" tell people.
All we're asking for folks who have been blessed -- like me -- I mean, I'm not being self-interested here.
"It would seem to me to be a self-made kind of individual who has worked his whole life and wants to get away, " muses Greg Archibald , national director of real estate for J.
My mother and the grandparents who raised me instilled the values of self-reliance and personal responsibility that remain the cornerstone of the American idea.
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So once I set a tone of being a fairly tough-minded press secretary, the media's picture of me was never going to allow space for self-doubt.
"It was self-defense for me because someone attacked me, " Oakley told CNN.
Their doings seem to me to be both foolish and self-serving.
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Dispelling their stereotype as the self-centered "Me Generation, " baby boomers in their late 40s to mid-50s are volunteering at higher rates than did the previous generation at midlife.
That might sound squishy, but believe me, it does wonders for fragile self-esteem.
"And being able to survive from my art has given me a strong sense of fulfillment and self-worth, " he says.
And it was the strength of my confidence in myself that brought me through what could have been a self-esteem-bashing, demoralizing situation.
"They looked a little too young to be giving me their phone numbers, " the self-effacing golfer reportedly told a Florida newspaper at the time.
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Now, let me mention one other thing and that is self-deportation says let people make their own choice.
It was impossible to capture an image of me where I wasn't wracked by self-consciousness, my features askew.
The girl beside him cracked a trace of a smile too, but looked away self-consciously when she saw me notice.
Those important self-realizations are what started me down the entrepreneurial road.
Sure, this can be appealing, since choosing to keep my self-respect intact has made me unpopular and disliked at times, with no end to that in sight.
As I sat down to write today, it dawned on me that this might come off as a touch self-indulgent.
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And like her angry reaction to her devoted nurses, often all my teachers got from me in return for their effort was angry, self-justifying, fearful resistance.
"Listen, I was driving to work the other day and I saw the self-driving Google car buzz by me driving much better than I think I was, " Fertik said.
And finally, though this may appear a bit self-serving, the doctor in me is shouting out not to forget an issue that has been driven to the background by the credit markets, job losses and threats overseas: health care.
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