30 Days of Truth - Day 02: Something you love about yourself.

From one extreme to the next with the 30 days project.  Continuing right along with my self esteem issues, I'm having difficulties thinking of something I love about myself.  I guess I just don't like tooting my own horn as it were.  I always feel like I'm bragging whenever I try to describe myself.

After thinking about the topic... and some inner decision making (see the last post), I've come to the conclusion that what I love about myself is my ability to adapt as needed.  I embrace change and live for it... rather than being set in my ways.  It's helped me more than once in my career as employers, the job description, and generally the work I'm required to do has changed over the years.

But more than that... I actually enjoy the chance to do something different... to try new things. I don't like it when a system is put in place and then people stick to it for years and years because that's tradition... that's "what's been done before".  Or people who refuse to adapt to new technologies... new situations and problems that demand a new approach, but are stuck with "the way we've always done it" as an excuse.

So I guess Change is something I live for...  maybe that's why I voted for Obama. ;)

30 Days of Truth - Day 01: Something you hate about yourself.

Oh jeez... where to begin.  I haven't ever really had great self esteem.  Sometimes that itself is something I hate about myself.  But I guess the most hated thing would have to be my indecisive nature.  I find it very hard to choose the path to take, and usually leave it up to someone else to decide for me.  I flip-flop a lot on every decision.  "Should I do this, or should i do that."  I'm flip-flopping right now on whether this is really the thing I hate most about myself... or the trait I really want to blog about.  Which I guess makes up my mind for me, doesn't it?

See? Told you something else always decides for me...

As an aside... The alternate thing I nearly blogged about:  My inability to let things go from my past... like previous bad decisions or embarrassing moments, things that hurt people, or things I said or did that I shouldn't have.