Just for Today Affirmations

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-Condensed from the Wall Street Journal - Benjamin J. Stein -

Just for Today, I will be as friendly as can be to the people I work with. I am going to treat them as if they were responsible for keeping me in my job and be grateful they are there.

Just for Today, I won't assume my job is to be chief critic. I will try to see the good in every situation and will look for something to praise in every person who works with me.

Just for Today, if I correct someone, I will do it with as much good humor and self-restraint as if I were the one being corrected.

Just for Today, I am not going to insist that everything I do be perfect. I am not going to try to break any speed records. I will do what's in front of me with competence, not painful compulsion.

Just for Today, I will assume that I have adequate competence for my tasks. I will not endlessly question whether I really deserve my title and pay.

Just for Today, I will be grateful to live in a society and time in which I do not have to do back breaking work in horrible circumstances. And I will be thankful I work in a free country where no one is forcing me to work.

Just for Today, I will feel happy I am at work, alive, and well, and not in a combat trench or in a hospital awaiting surgery.

Just for Today, I will not have any expectations about how I should be treated. I will not compare my pay or status with anyone else. I will just be glad that I am who I am.

Just for Today, I will not worry, I will not dwell on how much I did or did not get done. Instead, I will look forward to the evening, and be thankful for whatever I have accomplished.

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