I had a funny epiphany this morning...and it went something like this...

(Inner Voice) "Hey you! Get up and get going. It's a beautiful day out there full of possibilities and promises. You have everything inside you to accomplish anything you can imagine...just believe you can and trust in the promise of past victories."

(Other Inner Voice) "Ummm...you sound really familiar..."

(Inner Voice) "I should."

(Other Inner Voice) "You should?"

(Inner Voice) "Absolutely!"

(Other Inner Voice) "Ah-ha! I know who you are! I've let Joel Osteen become my motivational coach inner voice. How'd that happen?"

(Inner Voice) "All I know is that you would rather have it be my voice than Al Franken's Stuart Smalley voice."

(Other Inner Voice) "How true. OK...you can stay."

Obviously, I am a very disturbed individual. No argument there. But I find it interesting that the people in life who I once characterized as destructive and damaging have made their residency in my subconscious as positive inner voices. Maybe they have the reputation of being the angel on the shoulder and I unknowingly personify them as the voice inside...or maybe...I've talked about them so much that they naturally became a byproduct of my everyday.

Either way (or something completely different), I just know that I'm glad it's Joel's voice verses these other possibilities:

• Stuart Smalley (SNL Character)
• Barney the Purple Dinosaur
• Tony Robbins
• Billy Mays or Vince Offer
• Gilbert Godfrey
• Rush Limbaugh

Any other I'm missing?

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