Here are 10 things to stop doing in order to love
yourself:
1. Stop
spending time with the wrong people. – Life is too short to spend time with
people who suck the happiness out of you.
If someone wants you in their life, they’ll make room for you. You shouldn’t have to fight for a spot. Never, ever insist yourself to someone who
continuously overlooks your worth. And
remember, it’s not the people that stand by your side when you’re at your best,
but the ones who stand beside you when you’re at your worst that are your true
friends.
2. Stop
running from your problems. – Face them head on. No, it won’t be easy. There is no person in the world capable of
flawlessly handling every punch thrown at them.
We aren’t supposed to be able to instantly solve problems. That’s not how we’re made. In fact, we’re made to get upset, sad, hurt,
stumble and fall. Because that’s the
whole purpose of living – to face problems, learn, adapt, and solve them over
the course of time. This is what
ultimately molds us into the person we become.
3. Stop lying to yourself. – You can lie to
anyone else in the world, but you can’t lie to yourself. Our lives improve only when we take chances,
and the first and most difficult chance we can take is to be honest with
ourselves. Read The Road Less Traveled.
4. Stop putting your own needs on the back
burner. –
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too
much, and forgetting that you are special too.
Yes, help others; but help yourself too.
If there was ever a moment to follow your passion and do something that
matters to you, that moment is now.
5. Stop trying to be someone you’re not. – One of the
greatest challenges in life is being yourself in a world that’s trying to make
you like everyone else. Someone will
always be prettier, someone will always be smarter, someone will always be
younger, but they will never be you.
Don’t change so people will like you.
Be yourself and the right people will love the real you.
6. Stop trying to hold onto the past. – You can’t start
the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading your last one.
7. Stop being scared to make a mistake. – Doing something
and getting it wrong is at least ten times more productive than doing
nothing. Every success has a trail of
failures behind it, and every failure is leading towards success. You end up regretting the things you did NOT
do far more than the things you did.
8. Stop berating yourself for old mistakes. – We may love the
wrong person and cry about the wrong things, but no matter how things go wrong,
one thing is for sure, mistakes help us find the person and things that are
right for us. We all make mistakes, have
struggles, and even regret things in our past.
But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are
here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future. Every single thing that has ever happened in
your life is preparing you for a moment that is yet to come.
9. Stop trying to buy happiness. – Many of the things
we desire are expensive. But the truth
is, the things that really satisfy us are totally free – love, laughter and
working on our passions.
10. Stop exclusively looking to others for
happiness.
– If you’re not happy with who you are on the inside, you won’t be happy in a
long-term relationship with anyone else either.
You have to create stability in your own life first before you can share
it with someone else.
