Respect yourself

Many ills in life can be traced to the failure to do this. When you respect yourself, you treat yourself with unconditional love and care, you value the depth of what you don’t know, and refuse to be fooled by what you know.

Respecting yourself helps you see fear as it is, without getting entangled by it or allowing it to hold you back.

When you respect yourself, you play the longer game not minding what it may cost you in comfort at this moment. You don’t pander to peer-pressure and FOMO.

You give yourself forgiveness and grace when you fall. You make commitments and follow through with them.

More than what others think about you, what you expect of yourself matters. And because you deeply respect yourself, you can spend time getting to know yourself better.

As you do, maybe you can learn to extend that respect to others.