Michael Moon’s Bookshop, Whitehaven.

Tips for Improving your Self -Esteem

The following suggestions may be helpful for a person who finds that they are struggling with low self-esteem:

1. It starts with a decision to be your own person. Don’t live your life to please, or impress, others.

2. Try to grasp the fact we have different goals and values … And don’t be swayed by people who criticise your dreams.

3. Don’t compare your journey to someone else’s journey as we start from different places and face different challenges.

4. Be kind, understanding and patient with yourself. Accept mistakes and failures are part of all our lives. Also, choose to frame mistakes as learning opportunities.

5. You need to root for yourself, and seek to be your own best friend. Don’t put yourself down – in public, or when you’re alone.

6. Remind yourself a weakness can become a strength in time. It takes patience and effort – but eventually things change.

7. Make a list of what you’re good at, and keep adding to the list. Also, note the strengths that others see, and comment on, as well.

8. Treat yourself with respect and praise the things that you do

9. Find ways to dissipate and channel negative emotions. Don’t allow them to dictate the way you start to see yourself.

10. Spend time with those who like you, and can see your worth and value. Ignore those who attack you, and would like to see you fail.

11. Choose to stand up for yourself, and value being more assertive. Also, set and then enforce appropriate, healthy boundaries.

12. Admit your mistakes - then learn to laugh at yourself. It helps remove the pressure and the stress of “being perfect”.

Testing and Training on the Boeing Starliner : NASA astronaut Mike Fincke works through a check list inside a mockup of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner during a simulation at NASA’s Johnson Space Center on Aug. 21, 2019. (via NASA)

Clair de Lune, Debussy

Happy Earth Day!!!

"Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. 

"This idea is not novel. Men have been led to it long ago by instinct or reason; it has been expressed in many ways, and in many places, in the history of old and new. We find it in the delightful myth of Antaeus, who derives power from the earth; we find it among the subtle speculations of one of your splendid mathematicians and in many hints and statements of thinkers of the present time. 

"Throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic! If static our hopes are in vain; if kinetic — and this we know it is, for certain — then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.

–Nikola Tesla

"Experiments With Alternate Currents Of High Potential And High Frequency," February 1892.

In exchange for Oscar Wilde to have his pictures taken by the popular photographer Napolean Sarony, he actually signed a contract in 1882, ‘agreeing that he would sit for no other formal portraits, or for any other photographer, while he was in America’.

— David M. Friedman, Wilde in America: Oscar Wilde and the Invention of Modern Celebrity

22.4.18 // ivy league dreams

Childe Hassam (1859-1935) “Broadway and 42nd Street” (1902) Oil on canvas American Impressionism Located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, United States

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned (1934)