In Others’ Words: Look and Find

How good are you at looking at yourself and liking yourself?

Me? For years, I struggled with looking at myself and liking what I saw. I couldn’t see anything positive because it was blocked by a whole lot of negative self-talk.

How we see ourselves is often affected by what we’ve heard others say about us.

Finding positives about ourselves? Nearly impossible to do if we’ve been beaten down by a lot of negative input.

Sometimes to see the stars shining in the night sky, you have to get away from it all — away from all the lights and noise of the city. Drive out to the country. Or up to a mountain top, where it’s quiet and you can look up and see the beauty that was there all along but it was obscured by all the racket we’re used to, day in and day out. It’s our normal.

You know what? Sometimes negative self-talk is our normal noise, too. 

Take a moment and step away to a place of quiet. Look at yourself. Think of one thing you like about yourself. One thing. Go ahead, find the positive. It’s there, even if you’ve forgotten to look for it, like we forget to look up at the stars at night — or we can’t see them because they’re obscured by streetlights. Or maybe you no longer believe anything positive about yourself because the negative self-talk is too loud.

Tune it out.

Find the positive.

In Others’ Words: What’s one thing you like about yourself? A personality trait … a talent … a physical characteristic … an accomplishment. Come on, I’d love to hear what positive you see when you look at yourself.

 

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'Look at yourself, like yourself, and find the positive.' Quote by Dana Buchman http://bit.ly/2NesF52 #encouragement #identity
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