Sam Owen Quotes
Know your worth so you know when to say, “Yes”, and when to say, “Thank you but no thank you.
Our perspective equals our reality, tweak the perspective and you tweak your reality.
Healthy people learn how to frequently adjust their thoughts to make reality comfortable and realistic.
Thoughts repeated over time, no matter how incorrect, become consolidated in our minds as beliefs because we’ve repeatedly affirmed them over and over again.
Being your authentic self exudes a quiet confidence.
Confident people tend to evaluate their opinions alongside those of others and then follow their intuition.
The long-term pain suffered by suppressing emotions is far greater than the short-term pain of confronting them.
When you’re confident in what you have to say, you don’t need to add effect.
Confident people generally handle people with respect, compassion and integrity.
Embrace the anxiety of confronting your emotions because it’s often the emotional hitting of rock bottom that ignites our resolve to get back to the top.
Arrogance based on relentless denial of faults eventually makes a person weary.
Building confidence comes from overcoming the voice in your head that says you are not capable silence the noise and then prove it wrong.
Remembering our personal growth that resulted from negative life experiences makes new obstacles easier to embrace.
An external locus of identity is unhealthy and yet the very thing that social media encourages in those with low self-esteem.
In each moment you are nurturing or damaging your relationship with yourself.
If you emulate the behaviours of confident people, you will help yourself to become confident.
Implementing good relationship habits consistently over time elicits good relationships which in turn feed our thoughts about our own self-worth and capabilities.
Being your authentic self reassures the people you meet.
Our emotions stem from our thoughts, redirect your thoughts to redirect your emotions.
Negative emotional states are a breeding ground for mistakes.
For intuitive people, it can be exhausting having to constantly manage other people’s emotional needs on personal social media accounts.
Trust yourself to be able to confront and work through your emotions. If you believe you can’t do it, you won’t do it and you’ll become stuck. If you believe you can do it, you will.
Lack of ownership over your anger can incorrectly absolve you of all responsibility and so keep you stuck in the anger.
Taking charge of our life reinforces our self-worth.
Identifying body language changes connected with the conversation in hand gives us insights into their thoughts and emotions.
We build confidence by daring to step outside our comfort zone in small increments.
Via self-talk we give our mind instructions on what we expect of ourselves and so behave accordingly. Change the instructions and we change the outcomes.
Get in the driving seat of your thoughts. You control them and they absolutely control your life.
What we do makes a difference and what we think about influences what we do.
It takes effort and concern to really think about things.
Modern day information overload stops us sufficiently engaging with our thoughts.
Where you are now is the result of your previous overriding thoughts and actions. Tomorrow is still in the making so plant good seeds...
Always think in terms of solutions. Focusing on the problems usually gives us more of them.
Depressed states can make us feel like we're constantly fighting against ourselves but we must engage in that fight for ourselves.
Jealousy is when their reflection in the mirror that is your progress, is attacked rather than appreciated, begrudged rather than understood.
Anger usually only serves us, and even then, only very fleetingly.
Feeling your way to knowledge rather than thinking your way, often results in better learning.
Within our emotions lie answers, truths and instructions.
We have to allow ourselves to feel it in order to heal it.
When you become aggressive in arguments, you force the other person to become defensive which means they’ll either get ready to fight you or ready to flee from you.
Goals for the future distract from worry and anger about the past and redirect your focus to the direction you're travelling in.
How we make people feel shapes how they feel about us.
Our emotions are encoded in the heart signals we emit. Use the energy you feel to know how they are feeling.
Correctly identifying a negative emotion takes the brain out of fight-or-flight mode and into problem-solving mode, out of tension, anger and confusion and into ease, calm and clarity.
Your eyes will contradict your words if your words contradict your thoughts and feelings.
Sometimes being overwhelmed by emotions can leave you speechless but even then it is important to identify the correct emotion.
Whatever you focus your mind on, you will consciously and subconsciously work towards.
When you walk around feeling quietly upset, frustrated, angry or some other negative emotion, people around you will detect it to some degree or another, even if only subconsciously.