Tips to Love Yourself!!!

• Apply positive self-talk. Speak positive words about yourself. Affirming yourself even in small ways can help boost your self-acceptance. There is power in the words we express to ourselves.

There’s no law that prohibits you from declaring positive words about who you want to be as a person. Be careful with what you are thinking about yourself. The more you think negative things about you, the more you will discover that you are becoming what you have been thinking.

Try speaking three or four positive words to yourself every day for the next few weeks and watch what happens to you. If you say to yourself, “I can make it,” chances are you’re going make it to the finish line. If you say, “I am nothing”, or “I’m not good enough,” then you will accomplish nothing and you will feel like you’re no good.

Therefore, never look down on yourself, and avoid speaking and thinking negatively about yourself, even though it may be true. At the same time, don’t deny the reality of aspects of yourself that need improving. This, too, is part of your self-acceptance.

• Consider your uniqueness. Think always that you are a special person. Even identical twins have unique characteristics. Every one of us has something that others don’t have.

• Concentrate on your strengths. Utilize your strengths. Focus on those strengths and use them to your own advantage.  Also, use them to help other people. It is more beneficial to look at the specific areas of your strengths rather than to focus on your weaknesses or limitations.

• Eliminate your weaknesses. All of us have personal weaknesses. Sometimes the reason that we look down on ourselves is because of our weaknesses. Don’t focus on your shortcomings.

Some people focus more on their weaknesses than their strengths. They seem to view their weaknesses as a verdict on their personality.  In the process, they may never realize that they have many positive qualities which more than compensate for their limitations.

The next step, after recognizing your weaknesses should be to overcome them in order to avoid repeating the same mistakes. Turning your weaknesses into strengths is challenging, but it’s very rewarding.    One way of overcoming your weaknesses is to be willing to look deeper into your true self.

         I want to offer my own experience as an example of how you can defeat your weaknesses. I have overcome one of my limitations that crippled me for many years—the fear of rejection. This weakness was the result of many pains and hurts in my life. I have accomplished less because of this. I have lost many opportunities because of my fear of rejection.

I could have grown personally and achieved many things in life if only I had overcome this earlier. I am thankful for my understanding of personality growth that helped me to overcome my fear of rejection, as well as some other weaknesses. In this case, I was able to turn my weaknesses into strengths.    I’m convinced that you can do the same. You can deal with fears and weaknesses one at a time. Remember not to engage in self-defeating habits while eliminating your weaknesses.