I’m OK You’re Not,

A Journey In Personal Discovery

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“No man is hurt but by himself.”

Diogenes

“What’s the worst that could happen?”

“Geessh! I won’t do that again.”

When you look at the relative worth of the US dollar as a share

of this estimated bundle, in 1981, a gallon of gas took 60%
more out of the average consumer bundle than it did in 2006.
Thus in 2006 prices, the relative price of gas in 1981 was
$3.86.

Source: Measuring Worth.com

“I gave that my all!”

“They have issues”!

According to recent studies, the diagnostic criteria for

depression is far too broad, leading to people who are not truly
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clinically depressed being diagnosed due to a normal reaction
to negative events.

Source: The Washington Post, Tuesday, April 3, 2007; Page

A02

“Oh, I see! Well your depressed Ms. Jones, take these pills for the rest
of your life. Oh, and if you have any side effects like thoughts of
suicide or beating baby seals, call me and I will give you different
pills.”

“Fifty scientific studies have shown that the Transcendental

Meditation program can be used to defuse acute
societal stress, as measured by reduced crime,
terrorism, and conflict.”—Dr. Hagelin-

“More pills please!”

“It’s not knowledge by itself, but the application of ones

knowledge to affect beneficial outcomes, regardless from
where it is gained.” Jim Tippett

“I can’t believe they (I) did that, what in the heck?”

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“We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking
we used when we created them." Albert Einstein

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“Seek to understand before being understood”.

“A stranger is a friend you have not yet met”

Security, Belon Unknown

Level of satisfac
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“I’ll bet they won’t even know what hit them! Come here my little
puppet!”

“Sucker me once, shame on you, sucker me twice, shame on me!”

“I know you’re going to do something to make me proud some day!”

This process of the good life is not, I am convinced, a life for

the faint-hearted. It involves the stretching and growing of
becoming more and more of one's potentialities. It involves the
courage to be. It means launching oneself fully into the stream
of life. (Carl Rogers 1961[2])

“if it sounds too good to be true, it isn’t”.

“I must do as I am told and I will be afforded clothes for my efforts”.

“The only thing you have right now is today, the past is gone,
leave it there, and leave the future where it is too, because all
the time you spend thinking about the past and worrying
about the future is only wasting away the time you have to
actually do something about it!”
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“What ever tomorrow brings, I’ll be there!”

“What does not kill us makes us stronger”

“If everyone focused on the strengths within

themselves and others, there would be no
weakness.” - J. Tippett

“What if I had (insert your own action or event here) instead? I surely
would be much happier”

“Where have all the leaders gone?”

“The views of this company are not necessarily mine,

but for now they pay the bills” - Jim Tippett

“Follow me or die!”
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“Our good people must be celebrated, not driven into
the ground!” - James D. Tippett

“If you know both yourself and your enemy, you will come out of one
hundred battles with one hundred victories.”

“Compromise is OK, Submission is Not”

“Don’t cause a scene!”

“That’s an interesting perception or perspective you have there”

“What do I like about myself?”

Obesity contributes significantly to medical costs in the United

States. In 1998, 9.1% of total annual medical expenditures
could be attributed to obesity.7.Between 1987 and 2001, 27%
of the growth in inflation-adjusted per-capita healthcare
spending was associated with obesity.8 The annual cost of
obesity is estimated to range from $69 billion to $117 billion
(including $61 billion for direct medical expenses and $56
billion for indirect expenses such as lost productivity [in year
2000 dollars]).9
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“Lighten Up!”

"We are suggesting that people are influenced by the

behaviors of those around them, and if they're interested in
losing weight, forming ties with people who are the proper
weight is likely to be beneficial."

Nicholas Christakis, MD, PhD

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

Source: www.timlebon.com/maslow_files/image002.gif

“But I don’t have addictions!”

“A man has got to know his limits”

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Limits are a part of everyday life. They can stop us from

enjoying life and doing what we have always wanted. Some say
the sky is the limit, I say “What limit!” If you think about it,
the only limits that really, truly exist are those we impose on
ourselves. We tell ourselves that we can’t do it or it’s
impossible. As humans we tend to prevent ourselves from
enjoying a full and blissful life. We fear a life without limits
because it is unfamiliar territory. So we hide away, fearing the
unknown and convince ourselves that limits exist, when really
they don’t.

For if they did, the world wouldn’t’ be very interesting. It

would be a world full of rule followers and perfectionists and if
it was like that, the world would not have individual thought.
Scientists such as Einstein, Galileo and DaVinci, great
philosophers like Aristotle, Plato and Socrates, none would
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have had the impact they had and the world wouldn’t be as
great as it is today. James X. Tippett

“Finally someone else has to endure what I did!”

“It is my mothers, my fathers, my boss’s, Mr. Roger’s2 or my

neighbor’s dog fault, for the way I am!”

“I’m OK, You’re Not”

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Your friends wanted to say; you’re OK!