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When We’re Not Nice to Ourselves How Do We Expect a Nice World?
It’s super important to us and the world to be nice to ourselves.
I’ve written it before — I’ll likely write it again. I am my own harshest critic.
I also know full well that I am not in any way, shape, or form alone in this. Lots of people I know are most critical when it comes to themselves.
While it’s a good thing to be self-aware and give ourselves critical focus for our overall good — it’s way too easy for us to take that too far.
What that comes down to, for me, is the not-nice things I tend to think and say — about myself.
Does any of this look familiar?
I look terrible. Why do I never manage to make this or that work? How come I always feel like a loser? Why do I fail so often? I’m not worthy. I do not deserve this, that, or the other thing. Why am I never good enough? No wonder I screw up all the time. Of course, it went completely off the rails — it involves me. *sarcasm* Nice job…idiot.
If someone spoke to me in any of the above ways, I’d be pretty peeved at them. So how come I accept that sort of thing from myself?
