Lack Esteem

Do you?

1. Think you’re nothing.

2. Believe you’re a mistake of nature or lapse of contraception.

3. Feel you should be sodomized by a gorilla, not because you enjoy it, but because you deserve it.

4. Constantly wonder what the next disaster to befall you will be.

5. Dwell on every past hurt that’s been done you and talk about it to yourself while driving.

6. Repeatedly refer to yourself when you’re by yourself as a waste of skin.

If you answered “yes” to one or more of these questions, you probably suffer from lack of self esteem. I am your guru of lowly expectations, as I have had plenty of experience myself from being a supposed nonentity.

Once, a co-worker called me “deranged,”

which I took as a high compliment.

I’m here to tell you lack of esteem can be channeled.

You need my soon-to-be-completed book and CD, “How You Can be a Pile of Dung and Still Win.” The package will include a “Coward’s Kit” complete with yellow stripe to pin on your back.

Did you know many famous and successful people suffered from lack of self esteem?

Julius Caesar had epileptic fits because Alexander The Great conquered more of the world. But who got Cleopatra, huh?

I’ve had a similar reaction. Sometimes the world makes me so sick I go into seizures of gagging. But less about me. What about you?

You must visualize the darkness as a kind of light in itself.

Most people say they want love, acceptance, money, success, money, support and security and money.

Why then, ask yourself, is it your lot in life to experience loathing, loneliness, failure, betrayal and unpaid bills?

There’s got to be a reason.

There is.

Your concept of failure and success is wrong. Nothing succeeds like failure, and nothing fails like success. Here’s an example. Which of these two names, General Custer, and General Miles, have you heard of? Custer right? Miles was a successful Indian fighter, while Custer was wiped out. But Custer is remembered. See?

Do you drink heavily to escape who you are? Don’t do that. Revel in who you are, warts and all.

I had a boss who didn’t like me and I said “Hi Tom” as I passed by him, and he kept walking, saying nothing. I must have created a real impression to generate this hostility.

This was a workplace where the more successful the company became, the more angry, stressed, dysfunctional and vicious the place became. Did more money make these people happy? No.

More more more won’t do it.

Maybe you’re one of these rare people who have an innate ability to infuriate others. Maybe you’re a stinker. But stink is at least an honest smell.

Let’s be honest. The world is a war-torn, A-Bomb, pollution ravaged, lying, cheating, stealing steroid mess.

And you feel out of place in it? You haven’t taken advantage of it?

It’s to your credit that is so.

You can make a difference in this world by helping others, and just being yourself.

Be proud.

Next month we’ll talk about using self-pity to your advantage.

Copyright 2006 by SammonSays.com