Or the life of someone you love.
85% of people suffer from low self-esteem, lack of confidence, or a general feeling of not being “good enough.” That’s 17 out of 20 people with enough self-doubt to make success difficult and life hard.
It starts in childhood: Something is said that makes you feel inferior, or you interpret something to mean that you are somehow “less than others.” You replay it in your mind until it becomes a fixed grove winding deeply through everything you think and everything you do.
Low self-esteem and lack of confidence affect your life on every level. But so does finally learning – deep down inside where it counts – to honestly love yourself. It’s transformative. It’s simple. But it takes lots and lots of practice to overwrite all of that bad programming you’ve endured.
I recently discovered a Kindle book that can change how a person thinks about themself. The author hit rock bottom. He was sick of the misery and the pain.
So he got out of bed, staggered to the desk, and wrote the following in his notebook:
“This day, I vow to myself to love myself, to treat myself as someone I love truly and deeply – in my thoughts, actions, choices, and experiences I have, each moment I am conscious, I make the decision I love myself.”
After that moment, he told himself, “I love myself.” He said it when he woke up, throughout his day, and when he went to bed. He said it like a mantra in his head, over and over again.
Things gradually changed for him. His body healed. His life got better. Fantastic things started to happen to him. And through it all, he kept repeating to himself, “I love myself, I love myself, I love myself, I love myself.”
If you don’t think this will benefit you, please try it anyway.
You don’t have to believe it; you must repeatedly say it to yourself. It’s a practice. You won’t see a miracle on the first day, but you will begin to notice subtle changes in how you feel and your business, connections, and life.
Despite being a quick read, “Love Yourself As Your Life Depends On It” by Kamal Ravikant has much more to offer than I can write here. I highly encourage you to get it, read it, and let it be a reminder to love yourself and those around you more daily.
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