As we considered source of our corruption one participant offered: "Aren?t we like a frog living at bottom of a well and thinking that sky is a plate?"

We acknowledged that although frog?s error in judgement about sky brings little harm to frog, contemporary people believing sky was a plate would obviously corrupt our thinking along with our relationships with world and each other: - Our explanation for where water and air came from would be wrong. - The value of wind, landscape and ocean would be unknown. - Thoughts of Earth and Nature's beauty might be considered insane. - We would hold a corrupt view of how world worked and would relate to each other accordingly. - Our life goal might be to train slaves to be strong enough to throw garbage out of well so slave owners could live better. Some group members said that sounded too familiar for comfort.

I share frog metaphor here because it pertains. There is a similar but very real and destructive corruption in our culture. It erodes our every potential. It produces our justified lack of trust in our institutions and each other.

Fortunately there is an antidote for this corruption. A readily available process now exists that enables anybody to reverse polluted thinking that contaminates most relationships today. Our presently deteriorating situation will vastly improve if some open-minded "frogs" simply support process and its use. Is that something you might be willing to do?

If you find your own self-doubt hindering your personal progress, try these tips:

1. Listen to people around you. Most of us have friends and loved ones that we can count on to give us honest feedback. Ask those people to tell you what they think are your strengths and talents. You will surely get a laundry list of things that prove you are more than competent enough to pursue task at hand. But here's a tip: If people around you can't give you those motivating messages, that's probably one source of your problem; you need to upgrade your associations and surround yourself with more positive, supportive people.