Self-love is the greatest gift you can render to yourself. Shower yourself with daily affirmative words to remind yourself how special you are.
Therefore, never allow anybody to look down on you or make you believe that you are worthless. Remember, you don’t need anybody’s validation to like yourself. No matter how you perceive yourself, there are so many things to love about yourself.
Although you will never believe you are good enough if you don’t like yourself. So to excel and build self-esteem, learn to love and appreciate yourself even if no one else does.
There Are Several Things To Love About Yourself
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1. Your Personality
No two individuals are the same. Therefore your Personality is who you are and stands for. You are unique and special. So, learn to love and appreciate yourself.
Don’t allow people to determine your happiness Hence, you appear exactly the way you feel about yourself. If you feel confident about yourself, you can step out anytime and excel in whatever you do.
However, if you feel intimidated by others, you might remain stagnant because you will always believe you are not good enough. To become successful at whatever you do, you have to love and adore yourself first.
2. Your Fashion Sense
The way you style your outfits speaks a great deal about you. Be confident in your chosen styling
Don’t respond to people’s opinions of the right style of dressing. Regardless, dress in a way that makes you satisfied and comfortable.
However, every occasion and event has a fashion that suits it. For example, don’t show up for an interview wearing native attire just because you feel good about it.
Your ability to wear the right outfits to the right place and at the right time shows how sensible and confident you are in yourself.
3. Your Business Or Career
The first thing in succeeding in your career is to love and accept what you do. Every business requires nurturing and persistence
However, you will lose focus and become tired if you don’t like your career.
Sometimes, when every other thing fails and you don’t see any reason to continue with your business it is your love for the business that will keep you going.
Therefore, before you venture into any business or career make sure it’s something you love and can work on with or without the support of anybody.
4. Your Body
Your body is one of the greatest gifts you possess and you should be proud of it. Learn to love and adore every part of your body.
Don’t compare your body structures with someone else’s. Nevertheless, if there is a part of your body you don’t find fascinating, love it regardless of the dysfunction.
Things To Love About Yourself
Your face: No one has this kind of face, though you might have a look-alike your face remains unique. And that is the more reason to love and pamper it because it’s special to you.
Your legs: Everyone is created with different shapes of legs. Resist admiring other people’s legs and condemning yours.
Your Body Shapes: most people opt for surgical operations to get their desired shapes or body looks. Though some came out successfully, some people also lost their lives in the process despite the efforts, time, and money invested in the process. Therefore the keynote is love and accept your body shapes and be confident about yourself.
Your Teeth: White and gap-tooth are beautiful nevertheless if you don’t have one love your teeth. The most important thing is to maintain and keep your teeth clean all day.
Your Breast: There are different shapes of breast and no matter what you do your breast might not stand as firm as you wish. Also, different situations attribute to breast sagging like pregnancy and breastfeeding. However, if you wish to firm your breast, it is advised to opt for a natural remedy.
Your breast shape does not matter if you dress and package them well. Therefore love your breast and carry them with charisma.
Your skin: Most people bleach their skin to feel good about themselves. They lack self-confidence and feels intimated by other people. Your skin type doesn’t matter whether black, fair or even brown skin type. In loving and appreciating your skin type you are also loving yourself.
Do not entertain body shaming from anybody. Your body is pleasant and appealing. Learn to love and be complimented about yourself.
5. Your Relationship
When you love your relationship and marriage, you will be ready to put in efforts to make it thrive.
Your ability to sustain and make sacrifices in your relationships determines how much you love and are ready to be with your partner.
Therefore, before you venture into a relationship
Make sure it’s with someone you love and value, someone that you respect and hold in high esteem, and turn, the person also appreciates and wants to be with you wholeheartedly. When you and your partner love and value each other loving yourself becomes easy.
6. Your Weaknesses
Everyone has a weakness, and once you realized and accepts your weakness, it becomes easy to work on them. Your shortcoming shouldn’t hinder you in loving yourself. Instead, find a solution to your weakness and liberate yourself from them.
Don’t allow your weakness to define you or make you feel less of yourself. Those who don’t acknowledge their weakness end up making the same mistakes several times.
But whenever you recognize your weakness, it helps you to stay careful in whatever you do and avoid taking unhealthy decisions.
7. Your Sensitivity
Not everyone can perceive or sense things before they happen therefore when you possess such power, you should be happy and love yourself about it.
Your ability to discern things will help you stay out of trouble and will also help you know the right steps to take at a time.
However, don’t ignore or overlook things you sensed not right due to fear or disbelief. Learn to appreciate your sensitivity and put it into action whenever the need arises.
8. Your Ability To Celebrate Others
As easy as it sounds but not everyone feels happy when others are winning. Most people hate to see others progress and will do anything to keep them stagnant.
Seeing yourself joyously and rejoicing when others attained a greater height; It’s something to be proud of and worth loving yourself for.
Although most people want to be happy for others they don’t know how to express it. They allow envy and jealousy to get the better part of them. But when you realize that you can’t change certain situations and you are doing yourself more favor you will become happy for yourself and others.
9. Your Family
The family you hails from is also your identity. Your family doesn’t have to be perfect for you to love and accept them.
It is difficult to see a family without rivalry and misunderstandings. However, the challenges you face in your family are what bond and strengthen you and your family members together.
In life, you are given the chance to choose every other thing apart from family and that is why you should love and respect the family you come from.
Nevertheless, friends and acquaintances might change towards you or forget you ever existed. but in families, despite the disputes and disagreements existing among them, they will always find a way to make amends and come back together as one.
10. Your Ability To Excel
Not everyone Excels at their chosen fields. That you can succeed at what you do is something to be proud of.
Learn to celebrate your victory no matter how insignificant it might look. Many people fail at whatever they do.
To excel in whatever you do. you must learn to put in the work, deprive yourself of certain needs and wants. focus your energy on building yourself and watch yourself grow from one stage to another.
When you don’t like yourself you experience the following
Low self-esteem
Low self-esteem is a result of feeling dejected and worthless. You believe you are neither wanted nor appreciated by anyone and therefore you keep hating yourself unnecessarily.
But, when you like yourself you will step out confidently and super proud of yourself.
Failure
Because you don’t like yourself, you lack the energy to succeed at what you do. You become lazy thereby finding it difficult to achieve your goals.
Self-love reminds you that you are special. You will be happy to carry out your daily activities confidently.
When you love yourself, you will also find every possible means to earn legitimately to take care of yourself and those around you.
Anger
Those who don’t like themselves are always angry and irritated by everything and those around them.
When you lack love, you become easily angered and bittered. Nothing pleases or excites you.
By yourself, you will be free from anger. Your life will be filled with joy and you will spread happiness all around you.
CONCLUSIONS
When you love everything about yourself, you move and carry yourself with dignity and respect.
Everyone will not like or believe in you. Don’t wait for anyone’s validation to be yourself. Focus on being the best at whatever you do.
Though circumstances that will warrant you to hate yourself might arise, nevertheless self-love and confidence will keep you cheerful to face them all.
Loving yourself gives you the ability to love other people and everything around you. But when you dislike yourself, you will find it difficult to appreciate those around you because “you can’t give what you don’t have”.
One of the greatest lesson I’ve ever learnt.
God bless you real good