Honour Yourself-Be Your Own Best Friend

Honour Yourself - Be Your Own Best Friend

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One of the most important things missing in our culture is the ability to recognise what we HAVE achieved and acknowledge it. Growing up a lot of us were told ‘don’t get to big for your boots’ or ‘don’t show off’ if we acknowledged something we were doing well. Or our achievements went unrecognized because of too much busyness. So we learned to keep quiet about our successes in case we became unpopular with others.

As women we are very good at seeing the good in others, but completely miss out on honouring how well we are doing ourselves. Acknowledging ourselves or others outwardly is unfortunately not part of our culture at this point in history and if we are to make the world a happier place this needs to change. Honouring ourselves and others for who they are and what they are accomplishing in the smallest way would build self belief and improve the quality of all our relationships.
Most of us are quicker to see our own failures and shortcomings than we are to acknowledge our achievements and successes. When we accomplish something we feel good about it for a few days or weeks, but then we move on to new goals and new desires. All too quickly we leave behind the good feeling of accomplishment; we forget that we have even achieved them. This is a complete waste of powerful success energy. If we focus only on the not yet attained, we unconsciously feed the mind the idea that we are lacking.
We can re-use success energy from past achievements again and again, with very Positive Results, but unfortunately, we rarely do. We focus on what we still want to achieve, totally forgetting to acknowledge what we HAVE Achieved and what we have already got in our life.
Why concern yourself with what you’re not and what you haven’t got?
We all have areas where we’ve failed, where we feel we don’t measure up. Learn to pat yourself on the back for your present or past victories, no matter how small. Look for anything that makes you feel strong, victorious, successful and good about yourself. Look for where you can acknowledge others too.

BYOBF – Be Your Own Best Friend
Acknowledge anything and everything, small and large, and use it to create a vibration of Success and Achievement "in the now" which will aid you in attracting further success and happiness into your life. Acknowledgement is especially effective when you are trying to achieve new goals.
Search, and I emphasize the word "search" for things to acknowledge. Don’t just acknowledge the obvious; ACKNOWLEDGE EVERYTHING. Don’t feel silly or think it doesn’t matter. Your Positive qualities are just as Real as the negative ones.
Don’t be timid and reserved about it - put it all down in black and white so you can see, in a concrete way, how many reasons you have to feel good about yourself. That’s the purpose of this exercise, to make you realise you have lots of reasons to be proud of yourself. These good feelings create the successful, confident vibration that can form the foundation of your life and future success.

The ‘When’ syndrome
I also notice people often suspend their ability to be happy right now by telling themselves they will be happy ‘When’! When they have the right relationships, a better job, better house, a child, a grandchild! They promise themselves they will be happy and acknowledge themselves when they have some time off or when they go on holiday etc. But if we wait for ‘when’ we miss out on being happy right here and ‘now’ and wish our life away in the process.
When we recognize how well we are doing and acknowledge it and feel grateful for the things we already have in our life a magical thing happens – we feel worthy, we feel happy and our life changes all around for the better!
So living in the now and looking at what you already have to be happy about and what you CAN acknowledge yourself for, will increase your energy, lift your spirit and make you feel good ‘right now’ so you can claim all that wonderful success energy.

BYOBF - Invest in you, take 10 –15 minutes to do this exercise - really Acknowledge You and feel great about yourself:
BYOBF EXERCISE:

Step 1: List all the reasons you could be happy in your life ‘right now’ – the people in your life, things you have, your job, you have a roof over your head, you have food to eat in the cupboard, you are healthy, you live in a beautiful country etc.

Step 2: Take 10 minutes and write down every strong point you can come up with that you have in any area of your life, past or present. List at least twenty things you have accomplished this year, keep it simple eg: I dress well, I’m good at my job, I’m creative, I’m generous, I have a positive attitude, I got out of bed this morning, I’m a safe driver, I support my family & friends, I’m a good cook, gardener, mother, I work hard, I’ve just completed my acknowledging list etc.

Step 3: Choose 2 people you know and tell them 3 things you would like to Acknowledge them for.

Bringing Acknowledgments into your daily life and choosing to write 2 x each day in the back of a journal or notebook will increase and build the self belief and self confidence muscle. Then when you have a challenging day you can look back at your acknowledgement list and see how well you are really doing to give yourself a boost.
Tell other women about these 3 steps to Be Your Own Best friend - BYOBF. Teach your children, your grandchildren and be part of the positive change in our culture towards self belief and empowerment for yourself and future generations.

If you would like to overcome your limitations to increase success and happiness in your life contact me at Think Success.

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Contact: Suzanne Masefield at Think Success +64 9 419 2462
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