MOTIVATION


How to Be a Fully Functioning Person DR. WAYNE W. DYER


Let me give you the characteristics of a fully functioning actualized person. First and probably most important, this is a person who never feels guilty or ashamed of him- or herself. This person doesn’t know how to feel ashamed. He or she doesn’t know how to be offended. As a matter of fact, guilt is not a way of life for such a person.


Now, guilt is not to be confused with learning from the past. If you do something and you don’t like it – or don’t like the way it turned out – you


can change it. You can decide not to repeat it or not to behave in that way anymore. In that way you resolve it. You also have the choice to be upset


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about it. Or you could feel guilty about it, meaning you’re immobilized in this moment about something you’ve done in the past over which you no longer have any control. Now, to do something or behave in


a way that you don’t like is one thing, but to compound that by feeling guilty seems to me a double dose of neuro- sis. If you’re going to do it, go ahead. If you’re going to do it and not like it, fine also. But don’t do it and not like it and then feel guilty about it as well. Guilt is that immobilizer. This world


is full of people who are loaded down with guilt. Keep in mind that, if we were wired together in such a way


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