That’s right! 100 things! I want you to create a list of things that you love about yourself. It might be hard at first (and it might take some time), but I promise you, you’ll come up with 100 things.
I would love to see your list! So if you’d like to submit your list, you may do so here. Please include a picture of yourself.
Idea from Gala Darling.
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Choose one thing about yourself
Hello Everyone!
Thirteen days into our challenge. How is everyone doing? For those who don’t know today is International Self-Love Day. I thought I’d share one thing with you that I am dedicating myself to accept. I developed breasts quite early and I have either been teased, harassed or admired for having them. The truth is I have never really completely embraced them. The truth is I have always thought they were too big for my body and didn’t look the way I wanted them to.
This month, I am learning to love this part of my body just the way it is.
What one thing have you chosen to accept about yourself that you cannot change?
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42 Ways- Love Yourself Challenge
February is a month of acceptance and celebrating love. With Black History month and Valentine’s Day, it is the perfect month to celebrate who we are no matter our race or relationship status. We often spend so much time focusing on others that we neglect to focus on ourselves. The 42 Ways Challenge Blog is therefore dubbing the month February of self-love. Join us in this challenge of 29 days to fall in love with yourself.
The challenge begins on Wednesday, February 1st 2012. The goal of this month is to spend everyday celebrating who you are. The aim is complete all 29 things by the end of the month.
Start the challenge out by rating how you feel about yourself on a scale of 1 to 10. 10 being you feel absolutely amazing and 1 being terrible. At the end of the challenge you will rate yourself again and see how you have progressed.
Read over the list and plan out when you will do each item.
1. Visit the 42 Ways group on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/groups/256540124361228/) and request to join. This will be the hub for the challenge and a place where you can interact with others and track your progress. Kick the month off by writing down a list of at least 20 things that you love above yourself. You can share this with the group or keep it to yourself.
2. Choose one thing about yourself that you don’t like that you cannot change and dedicate this month to learning to love that one thing.
3. Search the tag “love yourself” on Tumblr and read all the inspiring posts on loving yourself. Save your favorite quotes to look over daily.
4. Write a love letter to yourself. It’s a bit corny but trust me it does wonders for your self -esteem and you can re-read it whenever you have a low day.
5. Take up a hobby that you’ve always wanted to try but have been too afraid to. Doing something you love will increase you vibration and make you feel better about yourself.
6. Commit a random act of kindness or several acts of kindness.
7. Repeat an affirmation like, “I love and accept myself completely and unconditionally,” to yourself 5-10 times a day. Feel free to make up your own affirmation as well.
8. Choose a day to pamper yourself.
9. Treat yourself to something nice that you’ve always wanted.
10. Smile
11. Start exercising more.
12. Choose a bad habit and quit .
13. Evaluate what you are feeding your mind. This means, negative television programs, books, music etc. Make sure that whatever you consume is uplifting.
14. Associate yourself with positive and supportive people. Have you ever noticed that hanging around a Negative Nancy has a negative effect on you as well and before you know it you start to think and act like they do?
15. Stop comparing yourself to others. There is only one you on this planet, therefore it makes no sense to compare yourself to anyone else. The only person you need to compete against is yourself.
16. Stop negative self-talk. When you find yourself saying you aren’t pretty enough or smart enough, quickly replace it with a positive statement.
17. Eat healthier foods. Loving yourself means taking care of the only body you will have for the rest of your life.
18. Learn to forgive yourself.
19. Make some quiet time for yourself, to enjoy your own company.
20. Stop seeking approval from others.
21. Be true to yourself. Being yourself is a lot easier than trying to be someone else and it demonstrates a strong sense of self.
22. Start everyday being grateful for the things and people you have in your life. Try making a gratitude list.
23. Learn to see the beauty in everything. When you see the beauty in unexpected places you will start to see the beauty in yourself as well.
24. Acknowledge your efforts. You may not always come up on top, but making an effort and doing your best is just as important.
25. Don’t settle for less than you deserve.
26. Treat yourself with respect.
27. Celebrate your past. Everything that happened in the past whether good or bad, helped you to become the person you are today so celebrate it.
28. Appreciate your life. They often say that you should love as if it is your last day on earth. Every morning you wake up is a cause for celebration.
29. Make a list of all your past successes no matter how small. Remember what it felt like when you achieved those things and remind yourself constantly.
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End of the Year Insight
Well folks we have made it to the end of the year. For me it has been a year of ups and downs and a great deal of life lessons. I have embarked on another part of my journey and of course I will keep you updated along the way.
When 2011 started I hoped it would have been as enjoyable as 2010, however the universe had another thing in store for me. My eleven month relationship ended about four months ago and I was devastated to say the very least. I could not see any good that came of it and at the moment I thought I had lost the best thing that ever happened to me and that it was all my fault.
Time has a funny way of allowing you get perspective on a situation. Someone asked me a couple weeks ago why we broke up and I think I said it best when I said:
Sometimes things don’t work out and I’m okay with that.
That’s a big step from crying every time I heard his name or something that reminded me of him. I focus on this because I think this has had the biggest influence on my personal growth journey this year. In time, I realized that the break-up was the best thing that happened to me. In hindsight it wasn’t all my fault as I thought, but two incompatible persons desperately trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. I did my best and that is all anyone could really ask for.
I now can see that more good than bad came from that situation and that it was really best. I still have low days, but I’m a lot stronger. I even have a new love interest (oohlala). They say time heals all wounds, I say time a little hard work does the trick. I am still working with my counsellor and focusing on my goals and honestly it feels great. Sometimes you don’t realize how unhappy you are until happiness strikes and realize what you have been missing.
I say this to give hope to anyone who has gone through what I have been through. It does get better and sometimes better than you ever thought it could be. My goals for 2012 are to continue to focus on my career and personal goals and continue to be the wonderful woman I am.
I can’t wait to see you all in the New Year!
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Monthly Insight: My Challenge has Ended (or has it?)
I must admit when I went searching for ways to improve myself/life a couple months ago, it was for all the wrong reasons. But they led me to all the right reasons. :)
Every experience in life is meant to teach you something, and recent experiences have taught me that my personal growth journey is about me and no one else. There will always be people in your life who inspire you to be better, but you must never want to be better for anyone but yourself. I am grateful for learning that lesson.
I’ve gown so much in these three months, more growth than I could ever imagine one person could undergo. With each challenge, with every article I read, it confirmed the fact that loving oneself unconditionally, was the best way to embark on the journey I had undertaken. I stopped focusing on the things I have lost and started to think of the things I have gained. The less I focused on them the more I realized that everything I ever needed was always right in front of me. I fall deeper in love with the person I am everyday, both inside and out knowing that I am enough and I am an incredibly beautiful person.
I started having the courage to meet new people and go out and have fun even if it’s on my own. I have connected with people on a whole new level now. I figured out the people who were there for me and who weren’t. I’ve even gotten closer with my family and my sisters (big step). I am laughing more and overall, I feel liberated.
Three months ago, I was broken into so many tiny pieces I could not imagine ever getting to this point. I felt worthless and I was in a very dark place. For years, I have been sacrificing who I am to be the “perfect (girlfriend,daughter,sister etc)”. I believed every negative thing people said about me and it hurt me to my core. I cared a great deal of how I was perceived and went out of my way to prove them wrong. But guess what, people will almost always make assumptions about your actions. And 9 times out 10 they are wrong, but that’s really not your problem, it’s theirs. You know why you do what you do. I often became a shell of a person and almost every time without fail I would shut down, unable to feel myself, as if I was locked in an emotional prison. Desperately hoping that if I was “good” someone would love me, someone would stay. I knew something had to change.
These three months taught me, that I didn’t need someone to tell me I was good enough. I learned to love and accept myself despite my issues, flaws and mistakes. I know that even if I’m not perfect I am worthy of love and respect. By not loving and accepting myself in my entirety, I was allowing people in my life who could not love and accept me either. I was a doormat, I wouldn’t stand up for myself, I would apologize for my feelings, I would feel guilty for doing things for myslef, I would sit blaming myself for things that were not even my fault.
I won’t say it was easy or my journey is over. It is a lot of consistent work, it is truly an investment. Between journalling, reading articles, living my life and assuring myself that I am a beautiful person inside and out, I got to where I am now. I know by expecting someone to make me feel loved, special or happy, I give them an awesome power of determining my self worth. Once you put your self worth into the hands of another, you are allowing every word they say, every comment, every opinion to define you. The only person who should ever have that power is you.
I started focusing on treating myself the way I always expected others to treat me. Taking myself out, pampering myself and doing things I truly love to do. I have reached the point where I can enjoy seeing a movie or having lunch alone. It is liberating and I know that I am better prepared to attract healthy happy people in my life. People who will appreciate me, the way I appreciate myself.
Learn to love yourself and you will be surprised the happiness that follows. Sometimes I can’t even help myself from kissing my reflection in the mirror, lol. My life is a lot richer now and through loving myself I’m becoming the type of person I’ve always known I was. I finally started living and I finally started being myself.
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» How To Stay Focused – 63 (Very Focused) Ways
Struggling to stay on task? Jumping from here to there and back to here, only to forget where here was. The good news is you are not alone. The bad news is if you don’t fix it, you will be alone (with a struggling business). Thanks to the amazing TPE Community, here are 63 tips on how to stay focused. OK, go ahead and read, and make sure to turn off the email while you read this…. you need to focus.
