Dear Dr. Romance:
I read your article "Motivation And How to Create It (Good Boss/Bad Boss)" and found it very interesting. I understand your point about celebrating and appreciating yourself to motivate your inner potential. However I am confused about how to order my brain for converting negative thinking to positive motivation. If we could go that far to recognize these differences, we would be able to react against our demotivation to get motivated. But I don't understand that how I should celebrate and appreciate myself when I don't have any appreciation of myself?
Dear Reader:
You can learn to appreciate and celebrate yourself and what you do. Your mind belongs to you, and so does everything in it, so you can learn to take charge and change your ideas and your mindset. "Attitude: From Negative to Gratitude" ; "Gratitude, Kindness and Happiness" and "Resolving Inner Anarchy" will all help you to learn how to appreciate yourself. It Ends With You: Grow Up and Out of Dysfunction has information and exercises for how to do it.
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Tina B. Tessina, Ph.D. is a licensed psychotherapist in S. California since 1978 with over 30 years experience in counseling individuals and couples and author of 13 books in 17 languages, including It Ends With You: Grow Up and Out of Dysfunction; The Unofficial Guide to Dating Again; Money, Sex and Kids: Stop Fighting About the Three Things That Can Ruin Your Marriage, The Commuter Marriage, and her newest, Love Styles: How to Celebrate Your Differences. She writes the “Dr. Romance” blog, and the “Happiness Tips from Tina” email newsletter.