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HOW TO NOT LIKE YOURSELF and get others to agree with you

    Andy (Timothy Robbins) walks into Shawshank prison, an environment most of us would see as a hopeless place to survive, much less have a life of any quality.  He enters the mess hall and the yard, surveys his new neighbors, and joins the most sane group with the most balanced leader (Morgan Freeman).  He works in the library, teaches inmates to read, and every single night he scoops one teaspoon of sand out of the tunnel he’s digging for his escape.         

     Andy chooses to be in charge of himself rather than allow his surroundings determine what goes on inside him and how More >

MOVIES: 1. PERCEPTION and Defining a Self

   HOW YOU PERCEIVE OTHERS and the WORLD determines, to a large degree, how much fun your are going to have in this life.  Whether you are FREE or in YOUR OWN PRISON.

     Sometimes when I talk about working toward a Self Defined Life, people mistakenly assume being SELF DEFINED is the same as being Self-ish.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  Isn’t it more selfish to run your life on some kind of “auto-pilot” expecting others to change for you?  Could there be a more unselfish gift to a spouse, a friend, or relative than to say, “I’ve complained a lot about More >