Love Yourself!
It is a fact that there are times when we often focus on building relationships with others that we forget the essential first step - that’s being friends to ourselves. It is the crucial first step if we are to have good relationships with others. There are often challenges to have good relationships with others if we don’t even have good relationship with ourselves!
1. Forgive yourself
You may have made those mistakes in the past, but is there anything you can do about them? Except learning from them. It’s true that you are not perfect, but neither is anybody else. It’s normal to make mistakes, so do yourself a favor by giving yourself forgiveness.
2. Accept things you can’t change
There are some things you cannot change, such as your background and your past. So learn to accept them. You will feel much relieved if you treat things you can’t change the way they deserve - just accept them and move on.
3. Focus on your strengths
Instead of focusing on your weaknesses, focus on your strengths. s You always have some st strength which gives yo you a unique combi bination nobody el else have. Recogni nize your strengths an and build your life ar around them. 4. Write your success stories One reason we may not like ourselves is we ar are too focused on what we don’t have that we forget about what we have. So it’s helpful to make a list of your achievements, write your success stories. They do not have to be big things but are a lot of small but important achievements in our life. For example, if you have some good friends and families, that’s your achievement!
5. Stop comparing yourself with others
You are unique. You can never be like other people and neither can other people be like you. The way you measure your success is not determined by other people and what they achieve. Instead, it is determined by your own life purpose. You have everything you need to achieve your life purpose, so it’s useless to compare yourself with others.
6. Always be true to yourself
You don’t like other people being dishonest to you and similarly you won’t like yourself if you know that you are dishonest to yourself. Whether you realize it or not, that gives your mind a reason not to like yourself! That’s why it’s important to always be true to yourself in whatever you do. Be honest and follow your conscience. info: shabnam@skcounselling.ca