Published on 12, July, 2020
I don't know how many have been subjected to things like "motivational posters" and their ilk, but as a cynical IT professional I much prefer the more accurate "demotivational products" from https://despair.com/. My favourite is the retired demotivator (https://despair.com/collections/retired) :
I wish I could still get the desk sized variants of that one for my work desk.
Anybody else have any favourites of this sort of thing they'd like to share?
Try this:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Anti-Affirmations-2018-Daily-Desktop-Calendar/dp/1683751507
Another:
YOUR FEELINGS OR THEIRS?
Without knowing it, you may be ascribing to
other people the feelings you are
experiencing yourself.
Because you hate yourself, you think other
people hate you.
This is known as projection.
Sometimes, of course, other people really
do hate you.
This is known as hatred.
There's not much you can do about it.
You're probably just the sort of person that
people hate.
When I was claiming ESA a few years ago, I had to visit a government-appointed private agency once a month to see a 'job coach'. The walls of their office were covered in the things. My favourite was:
'There's a job out there somewhere with your name on it.'
You mean, like a bullet?
I got a little book one Christmas: The Little Book of Complete B****cks - The Definintive Guide to Mind, Body, Spirit and the Healing Power of Just About Everything, by Alistair Beaton. Each day, I flick through it to find something to keep me going.
Today:
BEING YOU
It's okay to be you.
It's not okay to be somebody else.
Spare a thought for all those people
who are somebody else.
It must be awful for them!
I like this one: