Checking in....................................

 

......................................with Albert Ellis:

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

You never truly need what you want. That is the main and thoroughgoing key to serenity.

Convince yourself that worrying about many situations will make them worse rather than improve them.

The trouble with most therapy is that it helps you feel better. But you don't get better. You have to back it up with action, action, action.

You mainly feel the way you think.

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.

Being assertive does not mean attacking or ignoring others feelings. It means that you are willing to hold up for yourself fairly-without attacking others.

There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.

The goal of all life is to have a ball.