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A Winning Hand

Today I met with my counselor, she did something I thought was very interesting.  She got some playing cards out and had me identify several positive attributes that I have so I could learn how to 'own' them.  Just as this is a winning hand in poker, I can help my confidence levels by 'owning' my traits or characteristics.  I had a hard time defining attributes that I have as I'm just not a confident person.  Here's what we came up with that are my strongest attributes when I am stressed, what she did was write each attribute on the playing card so I can remember my own winning hand
Ace:  Dependable (I do what I say I am going to do)
King: Resourceful (if I don't know the answer I research it until I do)
Queen:  Stick to it (generally I see things through the end)
Jack: Compassion (I have strong compassion for both people and animals)
10: Knowledgeable (I know a lot about animals and other subjects)
Then I had to go through and 'own' each on of these attributes, by saying "I am dependable", I tend to say 'sometimes', but she had me rephrase by saying I am dependable most of the time, etc etc etc.  I really like my counselor and really like her methods.

Today I worked on getting our pantry put together, I definitely miss our huge walk in pantry at our old place, it was huge our new one isn't so big.  I told  Rob that is his project in the summer is to build bigger shelves to hold all our food on in the pantry.  It feels good to be getting 'moved' in and going through boxes etc.  I have emptied quite a few today and still have more to go.  I have been doing good at keeping up on the dishes. Still have several tubs of dirty dishes from the last place to do, but it's a work in progress.  Feels good to be doing and feeling so well.  I hope I can continue feeling this way instead of feeling down on myself.
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  1. Yaya December 11, 2012 at 2:56 AM

    That seems like a very good exercise. Glad you recognized what your winning hand is. :)

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