Unable to sleep, too tired to read, I was watching King Of The Hill reruns at midnight. Bobby Hill said something that won’t leave my mind. “I’m just a clod-hopper pig farmer who’s too 
dumb to know any better,” he exclaimed. The reason he said it was that one of the girls told him he was a clod-hopper pig farmer who’s too dumb to know any better, and it stuck.
What others say about us can mess us up – or lift us up – but what really affects us is what we say to ourselves.
“Your level of self-esteem,” says Brian Tracy, “how much you like and respect yourself, is central to your levels of motivation and persistence. You should talk to yourself positively all the time to boost your self-esteem. Say things like, ‘I like myself! I like myself!’ over and over until you begin to believe what you say and behave like a person with a high-performance personality.”
