YOU ARE
POWERFUL when you believe in yourself. You are beautiful when your
strength and determination shine as you follow your own path. You are
unstoppable when you know you can fall down, pick yourself up, and move
forward. Here are eleven ways to become the person you love:
1. Stop
judging, and appreciate the beauty within you.
When it comes
to being compassionate and non-judgemental, the only challenge greater
than learning to walk a mile in someone else‟s shoes is learning to walk
a lifetime comfortably in your own. In every human being there is soul,
worth, and beauty—including in yourself.
2. Treat
yourself the way you want others to treat you.
Accept
yourself! Insecurity is what‟s ugly, not how you look or seem to others.
3. Care less
about who you are to others.
Don‟t lose
you in your search for acceptance from the outside. You have nothing to
prove to anyone else. Care less about who you are to others and more
about who you are to yourself.
4. Know your
worth.
We often
accept the love we think we deserve. It makes no sense to be second in
someone's life, when you know you‟re good enough to be first in someone
else‟s.
5. Don't rush
intimate relationships.
Love is not
about sex, going on fancy dates, or showing off. It‟s about being with a
person who makes you happy in a way that no one else can. If you haven‟t
found true love yet, don‟t settle. There is someone out there who will
love you unconditionally—you just haven‟t found them yet.
6. Let go of
those who aren't really there.
There are
certain people who aren't meant to fit into your
life no matter how much you want them to. Maybe a happy ending doesn't
include anyone else right now. Maybe it‟s just you, picking up the
pieces and starting over, freeing yourself for something better in the
future. Maybe the happy ending is simply letting go.
7. Forgive
yourself and others.
Life begins
where your fear and resentment end. When you forgive yourself and
others, and stop the inner imprisonment, you free yourself to live with
love and purpose—looking forward, not back.
8. Focus on
the positive.
Our thoughts
are the makers of our moods, the inventors of our dreams, and the
creators of our will. That is why we must sort through them carefully
and choose to respond only to those that will help us build the life we
want, and the outlook we want to hold as we‟re living it.
9. Believe in
the person you are capable of being.
The real
purpose of your life is to evolve and grow into the whole person you are
capable of being. Change really is always possible—there is no ability
that can't be developed with experience. Don't
ever let your negative beliefs stand in the way of your own improvement.
10. Work on
goals you believe in.
Never put off
or give up on a goal that‟s important to you. Not because you still have
tomorrow to start or try again, but because you may not have tomorrow at
all. Life is shorter than it sometimes seems. Follow your heart today.
11. Keep
looking and moving forward.
Moving on
doesn't mean you have forgotten, it means you have accepted what
happened in the past and choose to continue living in the present. It
doesn't mean giving up, it means you‟re giving yourself another chance
by making a choice to be happy rather than hurt. Through all the
challenges you have faced, you can now say, “I survived and I now know
better for next time.”
In the end,
loving yourself is about enjoying your life, trusting your own feelings,
taking chances, losing and finding happiness, cherishing the memories,
and learning from the past. Sometimes you have to stop worrying,
wondering, and doubting. Have faith that things will work out, maybe not
exactly how you planned, but just how it‟s meant to be.