The Measure of Your Self Worth
Most people believe that success and winning is something that you get by reaching outside yourself and proving to others that you are worthy. Or that success is watching your bank account grow.They believe that you have to prove, or earn, or win, or perform in some special way to deserve the proverbial "gold ring", or medal, or beautiful home or new car.
It is this false belief that you have to get the approval of others BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Many parents make their children feel that they are only entitled to feel good about themselves AFTER they have performed well.
This is wrong.
You need to believe in yourself first. You need to feel good about yourself first. You need to be your own personal best friend first.
You need to feel love inside yourself before you can offer it to anyone else. And because of this, it will be your own sense of value that determines the quality of your performance, which is what other people see.
Your performance is only a REFLECTION of your internal worth; it is not the measure of it.
posted by Barbara Jennings @ 10:10 AM
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