Love Yourself

Yesterday I briefly mentioned loving yourself. Do you honestly think that you can love yourself if you are not striving for the greatest potential that is within you? No! I mean, come on, everybody has potential and it is yours alone. You have something your best friend doesn’t have. Your neighbor has something you don’t have. But this isn’t about your friend or your neighbor, it is about you. You are not anyone else but yourself - duh! Can you believe I just said that? It’s such a sill thing to say, but it is true. Sometimes people get caught up in what others have or did or are doing and they become paralyzed in their lives because they think they have to be like someone else. It’s not true. You have to love yourself like you love your spouse or your kids or your parents. You are the only person that you have to spend your entire life with - 100% of the time. It’s better to love you and be happy with you than to be around someone you don’t like. Find the qualities about yourself that you like and write them down. Focus on those good qualities. Find a way to enhance them, to share them with others. Then find one thing that you don’t like about yourself that you can change. Not your nose, or other physical quality that would require major surgery! You could change your hair style or color, you could whiten your teeth, you could take an art class, learn to control your temper, stop procrastinating, lose some weight, smile more, pursue a hobby, make a career change, whatever it is that you want to do. Do something that is just you, then do it again and again and you will love yourself!