26 Discounting Self

Consider yourself to be like a cash register.
When you do something good you enter a ‘credit’ into the register.
When you do something that could be better you enter a debit.

Sounds simple, doesn’t it.

Yet when you do something well, you discount your deeds. You enter a smaller amount of credit into the register.

Then, whenever something less than ideal happens — which it will! — you count up your credits, measure them against your activity and invariably come up short.

Why not treat yourself as if you are someone else.
A good friend, for instance. Or even a stranger!

Would you say to them the good they just did was “nothing, really” or would you point out they actually did that good deed.

Then, when you see them put themselves down because of a less than perfect event, you’d remind them of all the good they have done.

Discounting self seems like a modest thing, …until you make a mistake. Then you have no counter balance.
How many times have you, a good person!, discounted your good deeds and enlarged your less than good ones under the guise of modesty and humility.

Stop That.  Be Yourself!

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These are related:

3 Cumulative Knowledge -   4 Common Courtesy -  11 Feedback

21 Interpretation – 22 Attitude -  25 How Old Are You?

47 Gold Stamps – 50 Limits – 59 Hesitation -  64 Natural Talents

73 Killing Frogs – 77 Nine Cows -  82 Limitations – 85 Babies

90 Good/Bad – 96 Habits -  98 Third Time -  99 Perfection!

100 Ransom Notes