No ego...

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Just something I've been thinking about...Do you live with or without ego? Now granted,there's a tad of ego is in everyone...But my question is, do you let it motivate you, do you let it speak for you? I've noticed so much lately, that operating without ego allows you to meet people where they are, allows you to empower them, allows you to motivate, and better than that, allows you to "just be". I challenge you to think about it...What do you have to lose?
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I used to have an Ego.. But my wife took it away.... apparently I was not qualified to handle it correctly.. :LOL: :LOL:
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I gave up on my ego years ago. I believe that once you give up the ego and drop the pretenses you are living under, life is much simpler. And all it took was me losing almost everything and everyone......

"Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall." (Proverbs 16:18)
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
And all it took was me losing almost everything and everyone......
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Thanks Killajosh...This is exactly what I would like to see stopped...
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
my bi polar alter ego (mr hyde) is safely tucked away in the back of my mind this year.......i am determined to be a nice person, not fly off the handle, not stir the pot OR rock the boat....my goal is just to try to help people with skinning problems....and encourage everyone here at the community . :) 
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Isnt thinking you are "above" having an ego kind of egotistical? :LOL:
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
No one is above ego...see orinial post
Now granted,there's a tad of ego is in everyone...But my question is, do you let it motivate you, do you let it speak for you?
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Herein lies the message... ;)
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
i tried to edit my post but i couldt......thanks for posting this Jack, i really appreciate it, it made me think too.........  :LOL: 
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
trouble editing as well...thanks for responding Kitty ;)
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
my alter ego used to control every thing i did......this yeah.....nuh uh! no way, a more posative outlook for meh (hope that answers your question)
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
True reflection upon ones self is always for the better. Ego is only natural and when we are in control of it, can be a very motivating force. It is when we loose control of it and let it control us, that it's destructive nature is revealed.

We all have a bit of Ego, the question is do we control it or does it control us? The answer to that question, is the defining factor :)
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I dont really have a question that needs answering...just a question I'm asking myself, and thought it was worth sharing... :)
Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
you should share more......i luv it...... :LOL: 
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
It's just amazing what the power of selflessness can do. An ability to work for a common goal.
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
It's just amazing what the power of selflessness can do. An ability to work for a common goal.
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I see it here on the forums every day, folks all pitching in to help each other out.. Its a great feeling of acomplishment when it all works out.
Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top
kitty, I know all about being bipolar. I was diagnosed when I was 17. And the "other" Josh, the one with the REAL ego trip...well, I still have to deal with that asshole sometimes. But like you, kitty....

my bi polar alter ego (mr hyde) is safely tucked away in the back of my mind this year
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Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top
My ex-wife got my ego in our divorce! Seriously, this is a really great post Skinhit. I've always tried to relate "Healthy" ego to confidence in combination with selflessness. "Unhealthy" ego to over-confident along with arrogant. I don't know if that's anywhere near rational (that went with the ex too!) it's was just my way of relating to the difference.
Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top
My ego has made me an unreasonable man. I have changed the world because of it.
Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Do you live with or without ego?
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Well it's human everyone has an ego, the difference is in the size of it ;)

AS Radial my ex-wife got it in our divorce... thought not that i'd a big one before....

Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I don't have an ego - a god has no need for one...
Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top

My Ego took my Karma and ran over my Dogma...;)

Isn't an Ego a sub-compact made in Korea?....;)

Egos are fine....but they just need to be kept on a short leash.

Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top
you are like the buzzing of flies to Ego.......... ;)

No ego here, I'm way too perfect to have one. ;)
Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I think, ego I am..
from the book of Zubish Proverbs...
Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top
No one is above ego...see orinial post
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yeah I was just kidding thus the :LOL: at the end ;)


Your questions make good points for those that have yet to learn the lesson.
Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Whats an ego? I do what I do...I don't think about things like ego's. To many other problems in the world to have an ego anyway. Wait a minute...this is a trick question....isn't that a breakfast food? Leggo my Ego! ;p
Reply #25 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I never really gave it much thought. Then I looked in the mirror one day and said...that's not good. One of the reasons I decided to write my book. My alter ego is blonde, blue eyed and stands five foot nothing. Though I'm of the male persuasion my other 'self'...(a character in my book and no, I'm not coming out of any closet so don't get the wrong idea) is a girl with a split personality. One part is mature level headed and as flaky as they come...the other is as a five year old with a somewhat different outlook on life. An example:

"Thissa not good. Thissa not good" she says as her bondmate stares quizzically at her,"How I are supposed to dood this? I are just a wee person".

Her other self would have said,"Yeah right...you expect me to do this? Get bent why dontcha".

In other words my 'ego' was more like the older persona. Then you lose your job, your home and a lot of other stuff and say to yourself,"Is this really worth it?" Believe me it isn't. So I trashed him and now it's time to get back to the real world.