To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.   Eleanor Roosevelt Eleanor had a lot of wisdom.  Too many times we practice the opposite of what she suggests.  We handle ourselves with our hearts and others with our heads.  I'm so guilty of this.  I forget that really it needs to be the other way around.  With myself I can't handle things with my heart, I must approach it with my head.  Why is that?   Because our hearts deceive us .  I know you want to protest that you have a good heart.  Sure you do.  And sure you don't.  Our hearts have moments of goodness but unless we relinquish the control of our hearts to the One who created it then our hearts get us into trouble.  Our hearts like to pet our egos and tell us we are right and everyone else is wrong.  You know its true because there have been moments in your life when you have carried a behavior out as far as it can go and all...

We do not have to become heroes overnight.  Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up...discovering we have the strength to stare it down.   Eleanor Roosevelt What's a hero?  Anyone who has the courage and fortitude to stare at what is seeking to intimidate and looking it up and down and then tackling it.  It doesn't matter what the thing is because a hero is one who conquers.  Do not feel the pressure to conquer overnight, it will take time.  The best heroes are ones who allow the process to happen and allow complete victory.  Rush it and you'll miss important steps.  Rush it and you'll think you don't have what it takes to take it down.  But you do, you have what it takes.  And I do, I have what it takes.  Let us become heroes because we are conquering those things and people in our lives that seek to intimidate.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.   Eleanor Roosevelt Don't allow people to tell you who you are and who you should be.  Don't allow people to tell you what you are suited for and what is above or beneath you.  When you allow people to define you then you have given them permission to control your life.  And generally what happens is when someone else is controlling your life you feel inferior, even if they are telling you how amazing you are.  Because generally they only think you are amazing if you are performing/behaving up to their standards. Once you don't, they don't think you are amazing, they belittle you and push you to be better which leads, oddly enough, to feelings of inferiority.  You have the choice whether or not you will go through life feeling inferior.  If you have given anyone permission to make you feel inferior you also have the choice to deny them access any longer.  The choice is always yours, even wh...