There are always days where you feel like complete crap and see more shortcomings in yourself than you thought imaginable but you can’t help that. The only thing you can do is to have a good night’s rest and feel rejuvenated the next morning and remember that you are capable of no more or less than what you set your mind to. Improving your happiness, self-love, self confidence, self esteem, and self-worth need to be your biggest projects and they only require one mind: your own. I am incredibly excited that I have come to this realization sooner rather than later and I hope that you, too, love yourself enough first before you bring someone else into the equation.

I promise you that the moment you begin loving yourself more, you’ll notice things that you’ve never observed before. You’ll almost instantly have a more positive outlook on life without actually changing anything about yourself but your mindset! With loving yourself comes the willingness to go out of your comfort zone more often, taking better care of yourself, seeing the glass as half full, and just strutting your stuff anywhere and everywhere you go.

The great thing about loving yourself is that it includes being selfish at times where you need to be. You do more things for yourself like treating yourself to better food or new clothes or new shoes. It is important to learn and sincerely understand how imperative it is to be there for yourself physically, mentally, and emotionally before allowing yourself to do those things for someone else. I’m not saying that you can’t do that while you’re in a relationship with someone but it takes some time to have a good balance of it. Loving yourself is so necessary in order to even know what kind of love you deserve in a relationship.