Learn 2 Love Yourself in 6 Easy Steps with this new fancy infographic!
It’s true. I’m really loving these infographics for summarizing all this important stuff. I hope you’re finding them useful too!
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Want 2 B Attractive 2 Others? U Better Start With Yourself. 3 Easy Ways 2 Value U.
You will be as much value to others
as you have been to yourself.
– Cicero
In this little mini-series of mine I’ve been breaking down the top six things you need to do in order to love yourself. If you’ve been following along you’ll know that it’s time to talk about #5 – Value Yourself.
1. Know yourself.
2. Be true to yourself.
3. Accept yourself.
4. Be gentle with yourself.
5. Value yourself.
6. Invest in yourself.
We all certainly value a lot of things in life don’t we? We value our family, our friends, and our stuff. Oh and our phones. We really value our phones. Imagine if you valued yourself as much as your phone? Mind blowing.
It turns out that your worth to others actually depends on how much you value yourself. People can figure this out pretty quickly too. It’s like they can just sense whether or not you value yourself and if they sense that you don’t, you can be sure that they won’t either. Trust me, there are some pretty crappy people out there who will be more than happy to take advantage of you one way or another if they realize you don’t care enough about yourself to stop them.
Time 4 a Random Act of Kindness – 4 U!
Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. – Max Ehrman
On this road to learning to love yourself we’ve discussed the following:
1. Know yourself.
2. Be true to yourself.
3. Accept yourself.
Today we’re going to discuss #4: Be gentle with yourself.
You’ve probably noticed that you’re much harder on yourself than you are on others (and let’s admit it, we can all be pretty judge-y and critical of others so the fact that we’re actually harder on ourselves is pretty bad.) We’ve talked about accepting ourselves and forgiving ourselves but it’s ok to just be nice to yourself too. In fact, you’ve heard of paying it forward and random acts of kindness right? Why not love yourself by using some of those acts of kindness on you?
Happiness Starts with Being True 2 Yourself
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. -ee cummings
In a previous post I shared my cheat sheet to loving yourself which includes the six steps below.
1. Know yourself.
2. Be true to yourself.
3. Accept yourself.
4. Be gentle with yourself.
5. Value yourself.
6. Invest in yourself.
Let’s talk about #2 – Be true to yourself.
First, let’s recap why it’s important to love yourself. It’s pretty simple. Until you learn to love and be happy with yourself you will not be able to love someone else and you won’t be able to accept their love of you. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to miss out on love because I can’t figure out a way to love myself. As I discussed in another post, knowing yourself is the first step to loving yourself. After all, it’s hard to love someone you don’t even know right?
The next step after you know yourself is to actually be true to yourself. So what does that really mean?
The Top 6 Things U Need 2 Know 2 Love Yourself w/ Some Detail on #1
When I revealed the 5th Secret, that Life is All About Love, one of my next posts talked about loving yourself as the first step to loving others. I realize, however, that it’s easy to say “Love Yourself” as if loving yourself is obvious and easily accomplished but it’s not. In fact, many many many adults don’t love themselves (I’m sure you’ve met some of them) which has led to a lot of the problems here on this planet but I digress.
Anyway, I thought I’d actually give you some concrete steps on how to love yourself to make it a little easier to understand and undertake. I’ll give them to you all here so you don’t have to wait for them to be revealed but I hope you’ll come back for a more in depth discussion of each one.
Here’s the cheat sheet.
In order to love yourself you need to:
1. Know yourself.
2. Be true to yourself.
3. Accept yourself.
4. Be gentle with yourself.
5. Value yourself.
6. Invest in yourself.
Let’s talk about #1. Know yourself. (Or you can say “Know Thyself.” if you want to sound all philosophical and what not.)
L.O.V.E. Who Do I Love? Me! Me!
Sounds pretty self-centered right? I love me?
In my last post I talked about the 5th secret which is that life is all about love but what I didn’t tell you is that love actually needs to start with loving yourself. Let’s be clear about something though. I’m not suggesting that you become some kind of ego maniac who thinks they are better than everyone else. If you’ve been reading along with me you know that if you feel that way it’s actually your ego at work which is not the real you. No, what I’m talking about is deeper and more real than that.
Love is one of the most incredible things we have in our existence. It is pure, warm, comforting, complete and filled with joy. You know this about love when you experience it from others or when you see it’s existence in the world or when you look at a puppy. You can’t help but feel all fuzzy and warm inside when you experience love. So why wouldn’t you want to love yourself?
The Secret Handbook 4 Teens 