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Baby rhino mourning the loss of its poached mother

Many countries believe that the rhino horn is an important ingredient for many medicines. This is false. Rhino horn has the same medicinal effect as chewing on your fingernails aka none. Vietnam, China, Thailand, and Korea are just a few of the countries with markets for horn and tusk. According to traditional Chinese texts, such as Li Shih-chen’s 1597 medical text “Pen Ts’ ao Kang Mu”, rhino horn has been used in Chinese medicine for more than 2000 and is used to treat fever, rheumatism, gout, and other disorders. It also states that the horn could also cure snakebites, hallucinations, typhoid, headaches, carbuncles, vomiting, food poisoning, and “devil possession.” (However, it is not, as commonly believed, prescribed as an aphrodisiac).

Rhino horn, is shaved or ground into a powder and dissolved in boiling water and consumed by the patient.

Rhino horn doesn’t have any medicinal benefit whatsoever, but it is a testimony to the power of tradition that millions of people believe that it does. Of course, if people want to believe in prayer, acupuncture or voodoo as a cure for what ails them, there is no reason why they shouldn’t, but if animals are being killed to provide nostrums that have been shown to be useless, then there is a very good reason to curtail the use of rhino horn. There are five species of rhinoceros, and all are in danger of being hunted to extinction for their horns. Rhinos as we know them have been around for millions of years and it is heart-breaking to realise that the world’s rhinos are being eliminated from the face of the earth in the name of medications that don’t work.

An elephant that lost its trunk to a poacher’s snare in Uganda

Elephants are all evolving smaller tusks due selection pressure put against the large tusked males by ivory poachers, which allows small tusked males to produce more calves. 

Poachers dehorned her with a chainsaw

In 2012, 668 rhinos were poached in South Africa. In the beginning of 2013, these animals were being poached at a rate of 2 per day.

Baby elephant trying to wake up her dead mother, poisoned by poachers

Poachers are now being supplied by international criminal gangs with sophisticated equipment to track and kill rhinos. Often they use a tranquiliser gun to bring the rhino down and hack of its horn leaving the rhino to wake up and bleed to death very painfully and slowly. Poachers are also often armed with guns making them very dangerous for the anti-poaching teams who put their lives on the line to protect rhinos.

Female elephant killed by Somali poachers in Kenya

South African rhino mutilated for its horn

To keep the ivory from the black market, a plainclothes ranger hacks the tusks off a bull elephant killed illegally in Kenya’s Amboseli National Park. In the first half of this year six park rangers died protecting Kenya’s elephants; meanwhile, rangers killed 23 poachers.

Javan Rhino Officially Extinct In Vietnam

A large female Javan rhino, estimated to be between 15 and 25 years old, was shot and killed in late April 2010, and had its horn removed by a poacher. Turns out it was the country’s last. It’s the second subspecies of Javan rhino to go extinct. The third subspecies remains in Indonesia, likely confined to a single park, where as few as 35 of the critically endangered animals survive.

Despite efforts to save them, Africa’s Western Black Rhino is now officially extinct

This is 1 of only 7 Northern White Rhinos left in essistance.

An White Rhino in the Kenyan Ol Pejeta reservation, roams about the plains flanked by armed bodyguards

The gear it takes to stop Rhino poachers in South Africa 

Keeper at Rhino conservancy sleeps with three orphaned rhino calfs 

Baby rhino refuses to sleep alone after witnessing his mother’s death at the hands of poachers 

Gertjie was rescued from the wild on 7 May by staff at the Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre (HESC) in South Africa after he was found next to his mother’s body.

Baby Rhino cries after finding its mother had been killed by poachers

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PSA: DON’T LEAVE YOUR PETS IN THE CAR. Vet sits in a vehicle with the windows cracked to document how hot it can get

Interesting video on the problem with mass incarceration in the US

This is clubbing…..small town UK style(The dude @ 1:40…so awesome!)

PTSD From Gang Violence in LA

Flume – Boiler Room London

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The 101 Hottest Celebrity Instagram Pics Of The Week – Guyism

A Tribute To The Awesomeness Of Jennifer Lawrence – Ned Hardy

Tight Dresses on True Hotties – Crowd Ignite

Christina Aguilera Busty For Maxim – Celeb Jihad

Clever Illustrations of Everyday Sayings – Linkiest

20 Hard Things You Need to Do to Be Happy – Marc And Angel

I’ve Never Been So Turned On by a Commercial for a Dessert – G-Celeb

Hot Girls In Lingerie To End The Week Properly – Bro My God

Aubrey O’Day takes awesome photos for her social media – Drunken Stepfather

She’s Curvy Like A Winding Road – Double Viking

The Sexiest Social Media Pics of the Week – Celeb Slam

What Car Should You Be Driving Right Now? (Quiz) – Classy Bro

Who Doesn’t Mind A Little Junk In The Trunk? (15 Pics) – Regretful Morning

The Hottest Countries at the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil – Total Pro Sports

What’s Actually in a Slim Jim – Gizmodo

They Said I Could Be Anything (20 Photos) – World Wide Interweb

Hot Girls in Nature (34 Pics) – Radass

Pouring Acid On An ATM Will Not Get You Access To The Cash Inside – Consumerist

The 25 Most Amazing Waterfalls In The World – Hi-Consumption

Pictures that will change the way you see the world – Barnorama

17 Valuable Life Lessons You Will Eventually Need to Learn – Chad Howse

Girls getting wild for the weekend – Big 10 Tens

Still a better love story than Twilight. Enjoy your Friday 13th (9 HQ Photos) – Bad Sentinel

I’ve Never Been So Turned On by a Commercial for a Dessert – The Blemish

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Rapper chains are getting ridiculous – Leenks

Your awesome pictures and videos of the day – Ned Hardy

The Sexiest GIFs On The Internet – Crowd Ignite

Jennifer Lopez is Single, 45 and sharing sexy pics on Instagram – Guyism

Emma Watson Shows Off Her Booty In Tights – Celeb Jihad

Miley Cyrus Scandalous Selfies On Instagram – Drunken Stepfather

Danielle Lloyd Bikini Booty Poppin’ in Vegas – G-Celeb

10 Old Wives’ Tales That Will Freak You Out – Linkiest

30 Experiences You Should Have Before You Turn 30 – Business Insider

Hot girls showing off huge tracts of land – Bro My God

Kendall Jenner is not wearing underwear – Celeb Slam

39 Incredible Things You Didn’t Know About Emma Watson – Buzzfeed

12 Ways To Get Super High Tonight That Actually Don’t Involve Drugs, Alcohol, Or Anything Illegal – Distractify

15 Cuties Wearing Tank Tops To Start Monday – Regretful Morning

The 50 Funniest Sticker Placements Ever – World Wide Interweb

The Internet’s Hottest Bum – Knowd

10 Hot and Sexy Photos of “Frozen Lookalike” Anna Faith – Classy Bro

Girls in almost nothing serving coffee…does anyone know where this is??? Double Viking

31 Hot Jennifer Aniston Photos – Radass

These 25 Terrifying Serial Killers Are Still Running Free – Barnorama

Claudia Romani Supports Italy…so hot! – The Blemish

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White People

Big Show The Chiropractor….Just 52 more sessions, and that mild back pain he had should be gone

Someone call 911, Darwin just got robbed

This isn’t supposed to happen

I’ll have what he’s having

Aiming with Google Glass…No more need to flash bang, bunny hop around the corner and go prone anymore.

So apparently low rider fighting is a thing… 

Dog stays by the side of his dead owner

Off-duty cop saves mans life

Smart Crow

Cop car vs 500hp Mercedes-Benz

The damage a hollow-point can do 

Putting 50 Cent to shame

This is an actual timelapse of a star exploding over the course of 4 years, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope 

This fu*ked me up a bit

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Disregard Kings, Acquire Chicken

Oh, Photoshop…

I cannot get over how perfectly the lighting was executed in this steamy scene 

All the reactions to Tyrion’s speech in a Gif.

 Finding out the old guy has a thing for you 

 For those of you wondering who the best fighter is… 

That is downright hypnotic for me. “Punk ass brat. Oh wait, she is going to hit him again!”

Poor Samwell just can’t take a hint

Oberyn vs The Mountain by Mike Wrobel

What Oberyn should have done 

Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the shield that guards the realms of men. I pledge my life and honor to the Night’s Watch, for this night and all the nights to come.

“Tell us about your first kill, Olly.”

Disadvantage of knowing nothing 

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Kenya

Thailand

Sweden

Algeria

South Africa

Malaysia

Iceland

India

Ukraine

Morocco

Nicaragua

Egypt

Malawi

Latvia

Zambia

Lebanon

Australia

Zanzibar

Haiti

Zanzibar

Costa Rica

Philippines

Mexico

Italy

China

Indonesia

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by Chispy

We are the first intelligent animals to know that death is inevitable and that will happen to us some day. It’s a scary thought. However, death may actually be the most beautiful thing we have. Right now we believe that we have one consciousness, but we don’t. Our consciousness is incredibly complicated. The brain has multiple neuronal groups, each responsible for a small part of our whole conscious. And each of those neuronal groups are made up of billions of individual neurons. When our consciousness is being expressed, it’s actually expressed through the firing of electric current through groups of neurons, so it’s always different every fraction of the second. We are actually continuously re birthing and dying in our minds, but our brain makes it seem as though it’s one continuous entity. It’s beautiful. We are merely constructs of the mind, and the mind is constructs of biology. Biology is a construct of incredibly complex chemistry down to the molecular level, and each molecule is a construct of the most fundamental physics that govern our universe, all gaining mass through the Higgs field that runs through the entire universe.

If you really think about it, our consciousness is based on physics, therefore it is physics. And since the universe is based on physics, then basically we are the universe. Each of us is just the universe expressing itself in different forms. And we are living during a very brief moment in time where humanity is discovering this truth, and has the scientific evidence to back this fact up (the Buddhists were right all along.)

You, yourself, are the product of billions of years of evolution. You budded off your mother, who budded off hers, who budded off hers… going all the way up to the first life form that existed on this planet. All the people that exist today are part of that line of organisms that never died, all those organisms that evolved through natural selection. Each of us can be traced back to that very first life form. I honestly feel amazed every time I think about this. And honestly, we all should. Evolution is a beautiful thing. And the most amazing thing about it is that it’s our work of art… Because we are the universe. We created ourselves. When we are studying atoms, we’re only atoms studying itself. We should stand in awe at our creation and look ahead at what we can continue to create in this brief moment of time that we have in this form. It’s amazing how we are wired to appreciate ourself, an infinitesimal beauty. It’s a gift that we are giving to ourself to admire.

And the most amazing thing is that we gave ourself the gift of what we perceive as consciousness, so that we can spend time appreciating our own existence.

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Extremely Well Trained Dog (Very Impressive)

Best Of: Street Fighters Trolling Compilation

Urinal games in Tokyo, Japan

Delicious Vietnamese Coffee

Couple Communicates via Drums

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Movies Before And After Visual Effects – Ned Hardy

Nina Agdal rubs oil all over herself in new SI Swimsuit video – Guyism

Kelly Gale: Your New Swedish Obsession – Crowd Ignite

Liz Gillies’ Bewbs Battle McKayla Maroney’s Booty On Instagram – Celeb Jihad

Luci Ford in a damn hot ‘Murican 1-Piece – Drunken Stepfather

16 Easy Ways To Improve Your Focus – Business Insider

What if Satan and Hitler opened McDonald’? – Leenks

Kim Kardashian Mexico Bikini Pics…Plus See-Through – G-Celeb

You should know more about Emily Palos – Bro My God

All New Pics Of The Smoking Abigail Ratchford – Knowd

20 Most Gorgeous Beaches Around The World - Linkiest

Stream the Long Lost Aphex Twin Album Caustic Window – Magnetic Mag

Tramp Stamp Tuesday – Regretful Morning

This girl is seriously cute – Double Viking

Tuesdays are for Tattoo FAILS – World Wide Interweb

Hot Busty Asian Girls For Top Heavy Tuesday (11 Pics) – Classy Bro

The Hottest Scarlett Johansson Photos Of All Time – Radass

Kim Kardashian is one classy skank – Celeb Slam

Bring Me Giants: Every Man Needs to Dare Mightier – Chad Howse

Keira Knightley Shows Her Bad Sex Face – The Blemish

This Fan at the College World Series Is the Katherine Webb of College Baseball – Total Pro Sprots

The sweet smell of instant karma (10 GIFs) – Bad Sentinel

A Blind Dog That Just Got His Sight Back Sees His Family For The First Time – Barnorama

Gabby is your hot college coed of the day – Big 10 Tens

Miss Colorado Contestant Stripped of Her Title Is Now Making More Porn – Gawker

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A baby elephant is chained in the barn.

The babies often incur painful lesions from straining against ropes tightly cinched around their legs. It may take up to six months before they finally give up and stop struggling.

Baby elephants are chained in the barn.

Once pulled form their mothers, baby elephants are restrained by four legs on a concrete floor in a barn for up to 23 hours a day to break their spirits and are never allowed to play outdoors. Chaining a curious and energetic baby elephant for such lengthy periods is psychologically devastating.

A baby elephant is tethered neck-to-neck with an "anchor" elephant.

Baby elephants are captured rodeo-style, roped around all four legs, tethered neck-to-neck to an "anchor" elephant, and dragged from their mothers. From this point forward in their lives, every movement, every instinct, and every natural behavior is subjected to suppression and discipline at the whim of the trainer.

A baby elephant is walked in the barn.

Initial training involves introducing baby elephants to the bullhook while taking them on short walks in the barn. They are surrounded by six or seven people and tethered neck-to-neck with an "anchor" elephant.

A baby elephant bound by ropes is walked in the barn.

The Circus never reveals the violence and trauma involved in pulling baby elephants from the nurturing care of their mothers, instead claiming, "The calves let us know when they are ready to move to the next social level, usually between 18 and 22 months old, when they no longer rely on their mothers for their nutrition and start showing signs of independence."

A baby elephant is trained at The Circus’s breeding center.

"Then basic training is over and it’s time for full-fledged training. Full-fledged training sessions last 1 1/2 to 2 hours each, twice per day, untiil they get it right." -Sam Haddock

Baby elephants are bound and broken.

"During these training sessions, the baby is screaming and struggling the whole time." -Sam Haddock

A baby elephant is prepped for training.

"Towards the end of my career, when someone would ask me what I did for a living and I’d say that I was an elephant trainer for The Circus, the first thing they would ask is, ‘Is it true you have to beat elephants to make them perform those tricks?’ I sopped telling people what I did for a living. I was ashamed." -Sam Haddock

A baby elephant is trained at The Circus’s breeding center.

The Circus’s much-hyped Center for Elephant Conservation is actually a torture camp for training traumatized baby elephants to perform ridiculous tricks in the circus.

Gary Jacobson apples electric shock to a baby elephant’s head.

"Training techniques used by Gary Jacobson include a lot of manpower, brute force, electricity, and a savage disposition." -Sam Haddock

A baby elephant is bound with ropes.

Baby elephants are bound with ropes and wrestled by several adult men into position.

Gary Jacobson holds a black plastic hotshot in his right hand.

Gary Jacobson, general manager for The Circus Bros. Center for Elephant Conservation, falsely testified in March 2009 in Federal District Court in the District of Columbia, "We use hotshots primarily for self-defense and protection," and is seen in this photograph using a hotshot on a defenseless baby elephant for training purposes.

A baby elephant is slammed to the ground.

They scream and cry and struggle as they are stretched out, slammed to the ground, gouged with bullhooks, and shocked with electric prods.

A baby elephant is being trained to perform a lie-down/sit-up.

Does this look like "the animals eagerly learn to repeat their behaviors in sequence and on verbal cue… because the trainers provide the animals with a stable, rewarding environment"? That’s the bunk that The Circus would have you believe.

A baby elephant is trained to lie down.

This barbaric and violent training process goes on in secret, out of the public’s view, completely unmonitored by any federal, state, or local law enforcement agency.

A baby elephant is trained to lie down.

As long as elephants are used in circuses, they will be subjected to this kind of abuse.

A baby elephant is trained with ropes and bullhooks to sit up.

"The bullhook is designed for one purpose and one purpose only: to inflict pain and punishment. I should know. I used to make them. I built them to where you can’t break them, no matter how hard you hit the elephant." -Sam Haddock

Kathy Jacobson uses a bullhook to keep the elephant’s foot up.

The Circus falsely claims, "Because the performances are based on what the animals do during play and socialization, training is simply a matter of encouraging the elephants to do what comes naturally on cue to music. We accomplish that by reinforcing their natural behaviors through repetition and reward."

A bullhook is used to keep the elephant’s foot up.

They learn out of fear of punishment to lie down, sit up, stand on their head, stand on their hind legs, raise their trunk, kick a ball, and perform other often confusing "tricks" that will be incorporated into a circus routine.

A baby elephant is trained to sit on a tub.

The Circus falsely claims that the tricks are an extension of an elephant’s natural behavior and that they only use voice commands and rewards to get the animals to learn a set routine. But in reality, its training tools are a terrifying combination of ropes, chains, bullhooks, electrical shock devices, denial of maternal protection, and corporal punishment.

A baby elephant is trained to sit on a tub.

"Raising a baby elephant at The Circus is like raising a kid in jail." – Sam Haddock

Gary Jacobson trains a baby elephant to sit up.

Gary Jacobson is using a bullhook to keep the elephant’s trunk up.

Three bullhooks are used simultaneously on one elephant.

An elephant is being trained to perform a headstand. Two handlers are using a bullhook on each hind foot while Gary Jacobson uses a bullhook to apply pressure to the back of the head. A rope is affixed to the elephant’s trunk to keep it pulled under and between the front legs.

Two baby elephants are in a training session

"No one is allowed in the training area, and the training area is fenced in with solid fencing so no one can see."-Sam Haddock

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Sarah Jones

This infamous ex-Bengals cheerleader, 27, who was working as a teacher at an Ohio school made every teenager’s dream come true after banging a 17-year-old student.  She ended up getting arrested after hooking up with him on several occasions and fought in court.  She is now in a relationship with the student, after divorcing her husband, and is set to have her own television show. America!

Hope Jacoby

Arrested on the final day of school, Hope Jacoby was taken in for having a sexual relationship with a boy between 14 and 17 years old. This was confirmed once a picture of her was found on the male student’s cell phone. The 23 year old physical trainer at Tustin High School went free on bail, but was tried for oral copulation with a minor and unlawful sex with a minor.

 Lindsay Massaro

Sussex County elementary school teacher Lindsay Massaro, 26, taught 8th grade students.  She was accused of having sex with a 15 year old boy in her car and then in her bedroom after the victim’s father reported it to the authorities.  The relationship was consensual. She faces parole supervision for life.

Lisa Glide

Lisa Glide was sentenced to 5 years probation and faced up to a year in prison.  She had sexual intercourse with a 17 and a half year old boy twice. The boy said the following:

“I feel the entire case was blown far out of proportion and reason,” the victim wrote once he was a college sophomore. “I was the initiator of the contact, not Lisa Glide. I was clearly not a young child and Lisa Glide was not a sexual predator.”

Carrie McCandless

Carrie McCandless taught cheerleading at Brighton Charter High School in Colorado. She was accused of having sexual relations with a 17 year old male student during an sleepover school camping trip.  She provided the kids with alcohol and “did everything except having sex” with a male student while another male student slept nearby. She was sentenced to 45 days in jail.

Amy McElhenney

25 year old Spanish teacher and former Miss Texas contestant Amy McElhenney was accused of having sex with an 18 year old male student.  The age of consent in Texas is 18, but there’s a law forbidding teachers from having sexual relationships with students regardless of their age. The grand jury refused to find her guilty of an improper relationship with a student since the text messages colored their relationship as endearing and flirtatious, but she did lose her teacher credentials.

Michelle Preston

Michelle Preston, 27, of Shawnee Mission West High School, Kansas, was charged with three counts of having unlawful sexual relations between September and December 2010. She had sex with three students at her school aged 16 and 17. Naked photos of Preston – who taught psychology and geography as well as freshman cheerleading – were said to have been circulated by the students after the details of the affairs emerged.

Pamela Rogers Turner

Pamela Rogers Turner was 27 and an elementary school teacher/coach when she was arrested in February 2005 for having an ongoing relationship with a 13-year-old student. In August of 2005, she pleaded no contest to charges of sexual battery by an authority figure and was sentenced to 9 months in prison, as part of an 8 year suspended sentence for statutory rape.

In April 2006, she was arrested for turning around and doing it again! Turner was sentenced to serve the remaining seven years of her sentence in state prison, along with two more years after she pleaded guilty to sending the student naked pictures of herself which never resurfaced.

Amy Northcutt

Amy Northcutt and her husband, Justin Northcutt, were arrested for sending lewd text messages to a 16-year old female student and then arranging to have group sex with her.

Debra Lafave

Florida teacher Debra Lafave had sexual intercourse and oral sex with a 14 year old student. Charged with two felonies, she served no jail time because the boy’s mother didn’t want to put her son through the emotional turmoil of seeing the trial. She now has twins and is happily married.

Heather Daughdrill

28 year old Heather Daughdrill had sex with a young, 13 year old boy after meeting him at a summer Bible camp. “The investigation revealed Daughdrill would engage in inappropriate sexual contact with the boy after picking him up from school without the parents’ knowledge,” the press release explains. Lewd text messages were found between her and the boy.  She faces criminal charges such as sexual battery, carnal knowledge of a juvenile, kidnapping, indecent behavior with a juvenile and contributing to delinquency

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by Nick Notas

Every man seeks the answer to the eternal question:

“How do I become confident?”

And for most, they’re asking the wrong question. They should be saying:

“How do I love myself more?”

Before you think I’m spouting some new age fluff, hear me out.

Confidence is not something you instantly acquire. It’s not a simple on and off switch or a few lines you can memorize. It’s not about getting laid, acting “alpha”, or anything external. It is an internal belief about yourself that must be cultivated over time. That begins with your self-esteem.

Wikipedia defines self-esteem as:

“A term used in psychology to reflect a person’s overall emotional evaluation of his or her own worth.” (Source)

In other words, do you love who you are? Do you trust in yourself? Do you prioritize your needs? Do you invest in yourself regularly? Do you respect your opinions? Are you congruent with your values and principles?

When faced with various situations in life that challenge the above, there are two paths you can take. One leads you to a life of fulfillment, the other leads to endless suffering. 

Fear and avoidance: the path to misery

Men with low self-esteem often choose the wrong path. They don’t realize how much damage they’re doing by perpetuating a cycle of frustration and unhappiness.

1. You choose not to love yourself. You subdue your needs, wants, and desires. You hide or lie about your opinions. You avoid pushing your comfort zone out of fear. You always act how you think other people will want rather than what you want.
2. You receive internal destructive feedback. You feel like a failure for not trying and beat yourself up about it. You’re ashamed of yourself. You feel weak and powerless. You make excuses. You’re always left wondering what could have happened and over-analyzing.
3. You subconsciously reinforce that you aren’t worthy and lower your self-esteem. You build beliefs that no one will like the real you. You think you are not worthy of being loved. You keep burying your core and lose the sense of who you are. You fail to trust in your abilities. You’re convinced that you will never get what you want. You re-affirm that you’re a failure who can never change.

The cycle keeps repeating and gaining power over you. You are creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Vulnerability and action: the path to freedom

By taking the right path, you build self-esteem and liberate yourself.

1. You choose to love yourself. You go after your needs, wants, and desires. You speak your mind freely. You challenge your comfort zone even though you’re terrified. You are considerate of others but act congruent to yourself and your wants. You present the real you at all times.
2. You prevent internal destructive feedback. You prove to yourself you are stronger for trying regardless of the outcome. You’re proud of being honest with yourself. You feel empowered. You can accept the reality of what happened (good or bad) and grow from it.
3. You subconsciously reinforce that you are worthy and raise your self-esteem. You attribute the connections you make with people to the real you. You know that you are worthy of being loved. You find a sense of identity. You establish trust with who you are, what you stand for, and what you’re capable of.

Recognizing poor choices and getting on the right path 

To break the negative cycle you need to be aware of which path you’re taking every day. I’ve found that keeping a log is the best way to hold yourself accountable and start changing your habits.

Note every time you are being fake and self-sabotaging. Write down how you could have been true and self-loving instead. Use some of the common situations below as examples to apply in your life.

You see a girl you want to approach.

Wrong path: You don’t approach because you’re too afraid of getting rejected, sounding stupid, or bothering her. You get down on yourself because you never talk to women. You start thinking about how you’ll always be alone. You go home depressed and apathetic to trying again.

Right path: You start moving your legs before your brain has a chance to talk you out of it. You introduce yourself to her with your stomach in knots. Regardless of how it went, you feel amazing afterwards that you finally did it. You proved that you are resilient enough and it didn’t destroy you. You gain more motivation and confidence to do it again.

You are interested in this girl you know.

Wrong path: You want more than friendship but don’t flirt or initiate physical contact. You’re worried that she’ll think you’re a creep and tell you off. You make excuses that it’s not the right time or place. The longer you wait around, the more frustrated and resentful you become about the whole thing. You believe that she is everything and you are nothing.

Right path: You show your intentions to her because that’s how you truly feel. You feel courageous for putting everything out in the open. If she doesn’t return interest, you can be relieved to know she isn’t compatible with you. You can then move on to find someone who is. This reinforces that you value yourself and your time.

You want to build an interesting lifestyle and make friends.

Wrong path: You don’t go to local events or meet-ups because you might not “fit in”. You’re worried about being judged. You get lonely and think about how you don’t have many friends. You convince yourself that there must be something wrong with you. You continue the cycle of staying in because no one will want you around.

Right path: You go out because you want to try something fun and challenging. You remind yourself to relax and that you don’t have anything to prove. Instead, you focus on getting to know people that interest you. This puts you in a mindset of choice and abundance. You now look forward to going out because you can be yourself around people that actually matter.

For more ways to practice heading down the right path, see my post on being more assertive and getting what you want.

Recognize your natural inclination to take the path of misery. Remind yourself how going down this route is doing more harm than good. It may feel like the easy way out, but it’s destroying your self-esteem in the long run.

Every subsequent time you choose the path of self-love, you will build trust in yourself. By repeatedly making choices that are in tune with your core, you create a habit of prioritizing your happiness. Your success is then based on whether you were genuine rather than external results. This is how you achieve outcome independence and high self-esteem.

Only when you love, respect, and approve of yourself unconditionally can you become a confident man.

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