Today: Strive for self love!

Hi!
I hope this blog finds you on a great day.
Today I want to write about self love - do you show yourself love often enough?
And I don't mean by buying yourself things, or treating yourself to another piece of cake, I mean taking the time to truly sit down with yourself and contemplate your love of you - and all those wonderful aspects that make you who you are.
Do you spend a little time in your hectic day, complimenting yourself for being the hard worker that you are? Or for being kind and generous to others? Do you tell yourself you are good enough, smart enough and deserving of all that you desire in your life?
Every minute is another opportunity to show yourself love, and it does not have to be in these overt ways - such as telling yourself you are great (and meaning it! which of course is good, but there are other ways). It can also be in the ways in which you interact with others. Displaying yourself to the world as someone who is worthy of respect, kindness and generosity, by offering it to others (without expectations of reward or reciprocation).
Do you portray yourself to the outside world in the way in which you want to be treated? And do you treat others the way you want yourself to be treated?
Many of the ways in which we see ourselves are because of the way others treat us. So we observe the world and how others respond to us (poorly of favourably) and we tend to start reacting in that way and allowing that to become our sense of self.
Perhaps you thought you were artistic, but others have been negative about your recent creations, and you start to have self doubt. Well - in this case you have a choice - is that person, or are those people, important enough for you to put yourself down over? Or will you hold strong to your assertion that you are artistic and keep continuously improving on that gift daily?
Do not let those around you dictate who or what you are.
Treat yourself with love, respect and understanding for your less-than-desirable attributes, and the more forgiving and unconditionally accepting you are of yourself, the more you can be that way with others.
Take some time today for self love and see how it impacts those around you!!
Have a great day,
Jen