When I believe in myself I am the happiest being in the universe. When I believe in myself all of my desires are fulfilled, all of my dreams are reality and all of my creation is good and very good.
   To have a happy attitude in life could mean to have everything going my way. To have a happy attitude in life could mean I have no obstacles, no problem, no challenges. To have a happy attitude in life could mean I am born with a gold spoon in my mouth and have had all easy decisions.

   Life is not what I receive but what I do with what I have!
   I have serendipitously been blessed with great happiness in my life, great wealth, healthy body, alert and genius mind, a deep inner spiritual integrity-and I am quite happy.
   It is noble for a person of wealth and position in the community to go out and work in the Peace Corps. It is meaningful for a person of little means or position to take the fragile and formative years of their lives to dedicate it to such a calling.
   The person of wealth could always buy his way out of any circumstances and therein testing his mettle is dubious. The mettle or character and body out of which a person is made is taken to the real test when that person has no other alternative. That person has no other means to subsidize his dream than to cooperate with a given program.
   When I cry because things do not go my way, I demonstrate that I am trying to manipulate my world. When I smile and give whatever I am doing my very best, my mettle shines forth brilliantly.
   The real mettle of my being is believing in myself-believing in myself COMPLETELY! Again, it is not so much a matter of what I do or what I am doing, rather how sincerely I play the game, with what integrity do I apply myself to the dance in which I perform. It would be easy to act in a shoddy manner and give half my best and best of all to complain outrageously. Complaining outrageously is one of the greatest games I have played from time to time.
   I can hear you exclaim, "What, YOU, complain outrageously, you be a shoddy participant in the games of life, it cannot be so."
   One thought proves this so. If ever I say I cannot do something, if ever I say I am not good enough, if ever I say the game is too difficult, if ever I give less than my very best-I am complaining outrageously.
   When I believe in myself I am confident of my capabilities. When I believe in myself I speak positively about my every talent-and sometimes talents I had never exercised or dreamed about previously.
   Believing in myself is a very wonderful way of living life. Besides being rewarding and uplifting it is selffulfilling of my self- awareness.
   It works for me. I know it will work for you too as you use it.

-Dr Herbert L Beierle