No matter how intelligent, successful, attractive, or talented you may be, when you doubt your worthiness, you sabotage your efforts, success, and undermine your relationships. Life is full of gifts and opportunities. Allow yourself to receive and enjoy them. Give yourself the same respect and compassion you would give to others.
Many factors shape our lives including beliefs, support systems, motivation, relationships, family dynamics, fate, or karma. Finding, knowing, and appreciating your self-worth will help heal you from any self-destructive behaviors. It will help get you on the right path to help move you onto a more expensive, fulfilling life.
The problem is not our actual worth, but our “perceived” self-worth. We have lost touch with our intrinsic goodness. We have allowed it to be covered by memories of our many past life transgressions, real or imagined, which makes us feel undeserving of life‘s goodness.
At its core, self-worth is the answer to your single internal question: “how deserving am I” or “how good can I stand it today? ”If you observe your life very closely, you will discover that you don’t necessarily get what you deserve. Rather, you get no more and no less than what you “believe” you deserve. To paraphrase a quote worth sharing: “the rain may pour down upon you if you are thirsty, but if you only hold up a thimble, that is all you will receive“.
If opportunity or success appear in your life, how do you react? Do you rise and feel deserving or do you back down and feel undeserving of it? Do you feel confident or does it make you nervous, uncomfortable, or anxious?
Discovering your sense of worth is a deeper and more pervasive issue of your own intrinsic sense of value, goodness, morality, and deservedness. If we feel worthy, we will make productive choices. If we feel unworthy we tend to make destructive or limiting choices. At every turn in life, we are free to choose the high or low road. Our sense of self-worth tends to influence whether we choose to learn easy lessons or difficult ones, to strive or to struggle.
Appreciating our self-worth can dramatically improve our life circumstances, by changing the choices we make and the actions we take.
If you were to ask yourself, on a scale of 1 to 100, how would you rate your self-worth as 1 being the opinion you are a bad person and 100 being you deeply believe in your goodness and deserving of everything good in life? Whether or not you consciously remember your past behaviors, the fact that you were able to even come up with a number indicates that your subconscious mind has been keeping score. In any event, if you rate yourself less than 100, which all of us expectedly do, you have some self-worth issues to address.
We tend to record every negative, hateful, petty, envious, spiteful, or cruel thought and feeling that passed through her mind. Thus began this assessment score. We end up being our own self observer-punisher, continually making note of our rights and wrongs. Forgive yourself for past actions or words, take positive action in the present. Make a right from your mind’s wrongs and do know that other people do forget and forgive your actions.
No one is perfect. Nobody! Begin today to make a positive change in yourself and forgive “you“ for past actions it all begins with you! Stop punishing yourself all over again for your past actions. That is not necessary. It never has been necessary.
Evolution moves in an upward spiral and that life can and usually does get better over time. You live in learn, stumble and evolve, rise and fall, constantly change, grow, expand, and progress. When you pay attention and strive to improve, you become stronger, clearer, wiser, and more capable. Life is a process of re-discovering your worth and the worth of all beings. To discover your self-worth you need to reach within yourself to find it. You need to create it through worthy actions.
Life is a “gift“ and within each moment is our own reality the past and the future exist only in our minds. None of us can go back and change our past nor can we predict our future. But, we can live each moment, from here on, preparing and letting go of those things that get in the way of our life preparations. Start to wipe your slate clean of past mistakes to open up your life scoreboard to new ideas, creativity, and deserved success.
Trust in yourself! You are so deserving of a great life! Allow yourself to live, love, and laugh! There’s only one “you” in the entire world, so be the best you, you can be! “You” are the best investment you will ever make in your life! You are so worth it!
