About Respecting Yourself
When you understand that you cannot control what’s outside of you, life gets simpler - focus on yourself first.
When you understand that you cannot change others, life gets even simpler - always focus on yourself first.
When, a step further, you understand that the only way to inspire and positively influence other people around you is to start with yourself, you start to be convinced that focusing on yourself first is the only key - and it really is
When doing so, many people tell me they feel they’re becoming a different person, that they start to feel selfish and bad about themselves - and that’s usually the first (short term) impression. Because we need to understand that putting ourselves first is unfamiliar, it’s seen or judged as being selfish and we can easily blame ourselves for doing so…
My question is, when you’re doing that thing you don’t want to do (because you’re expected to), when you’re around that person you don’t want to (for whatever reason) despite being mainly negative and never looking for solutions to their life’s challenges, when you force yourself into being in environments that make you feel bad or worse (despite the fact that you can clearly see the pattern) - Who are you respecting? Who are you disrespecting? Whatever the answer, the important is to start to observe what you usually do, what makes you do it and how it makes you feel…
Always respect yourself first
…and that’s a question you can ask yourself every time you’re invited to go somewhere or to do something - Am I respecting myself first? Or am I only respecting others?
Know that we teach people how to treat us and when we decide to change, when we decide to work on ourselves and transform, in the end we’re the only one changing and that’s natural that us changing might be sensed as us acting different or weird when we’ve never put ourselves first in the past. But again, this is your job, this is why you where put here on this planet, to respect yourself above anything and anyone else, to put yourself first and from there, be able to help the world being a better place for yourself, for your family and for your baby.
