Success Approach #3

Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.

The biggest mistake in life is not learning how to love yourself. How can you possibly share what you don’t have? Relationships with others are essential to success in life, as I discussed in previous blogs. To be able to love yourself first is critical to relationships within your family, friends, co-workers, and communities.

Like every other threat in life, you can make the best use of it as a path to constructive ideas rather than merely giving up on yourself. Your love yourself campaign, is unique to you and you alone, it has no other options. Success with this approach relies primarily on your commitment to adapt to such change.

Quite honestly you’ve never been alone with such a challenge, for at some point in life, virtually every one of us has been confronted with it. For those who have recognized the role this plays in experiencing their true potential and confronted it accordingly, success has become both a target and a reality in their lives.

Another part of such a challenge is to understand when or why you need to love yourself. Be assured it is not simply a one-time challenge each day. As I pointed out once before, in every day of your life there are 86,400 seconds, and that’s only a simplistic measure of how much change your life; mentally, emotionally, and consequentially is subject to. The best possible tool for success in any and all of these is love of yourself.

So where do you go from here? I’d like to recommend at least one resource you can rely upon and that is this one, http://www.wikihow.com/Build-Self-Confidence. Here is one approach I believe could be of value to you as you confront this particular challenge relevant to success; learning to love yourself.

“Recognize your insecurities. What does that voice in the back of your mind say? What makes you uncomfortable or ashamed of yourself? This could be anything from acne, to regrets, friends at school or a past traumatic or negative experience. Whatever is making you feel unworthy, ashamed or inferior, identify it, give it a name, and write it down. You can also tear these written pieces to start feeling positive on those points.”

Remember also that your success depends not on how many times you read about it, but true success hinges on how well you apply what we have just discussed and honestly love yourself.