How To Accept Yourself

“Love yourself—accept yourself—forgive yourself—and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.” - Leo F. Buscaglia. If you don’t find favor with this quote then you may be among people who cringe on seeing themselves in mirror, they are not happy with their job, their appearance and their life. They want to become somebody else and live all their life in misery and anonymity. What they don’t realize is that we become what we think. And to become a successful person we need to accept ourselves. Accepting oneself is important to live a happy and content life. Explore the following pointers to know the ways for accepting yourself.

It may be very difficult for you especially if you have grown up disliking everything about you. You always find yourself not good enough and by saying that you were not just being humble. It may be because of some flaws, because of negative thinking or because of other people’s opinions. Remember that nothing is more important than your opinion. Take pride in your success and see yourself as successful, you would soon find change in your outlook towards life, and you would start accepting yourself.

 

Self-confidence is essential element for accepting oneself. Develop self-confidence by telling yourself constantly that you are a unique and beautiful person. Stand in front of the mirror and focus on all the features you like about yourself. It will help you understand your uniqueness, and you would soon start to accept yourself.

Writing all your qualities will help you. Focus on all the positive qualities you possess and you would soon start to see yourself in good light. Write all the qualities no matter how trivial they may be and then read them. You would soon start to feel important and accept yourself.

It is important to accept you as you are but it is also important to strive to better yourself. After you have gained your self-confidence, work towards something, which you want to do. You can also write all about yourself, which you feel, are negative. After you have written, work on eliminating them. For instance, if you feel you are too emotional and get hurt easily, work on it to do away with it. If you feel that you are not able to focus on your career, think about the root cause of it and work towards bettering it.  

 

 

Happiness or sadness largely depends on oneself. So instead of focusing on the greener grass on the other side, focus on what you have achieved and be happy. Remember that happiness doesn’t lie in earning millions, or possessing all the luxuries, happiness lies in one’s mind otherwise all the millionaires in the world would be happy.

Remember that you will have to work towards the goal of accepting yourself. It will not happen overnight. Keep in mind that you are a unique person and unless you accept yourself, the world will not accept you. Work on inculcating self-confidence and you would soon see the opinions of others changing towards you.