I will be 56yrs old in a few weeks and the concept of learning to love yourself really shouldn’t be something that I’m still learning to do. But it’s my experience that many people truly don’t love who they are, and I’m really not unusual in this. Our experiences and what other people have said about us or the way others have acted towards us have an impact on an otherwise secure individual.

The truth is many people go through the whole of their lives covering up how they really feel about themselves. Even the most confident looking people can genuinely truly not like who they are. This has an impact on our presence in the world and really can’t be hidden forever, although some people go to the grave with this sad secret disguised as something else.

• Pretend confidence
• Lack of confidence
• Feeling as though you don’t belong
• Bullying and control issues
• False humility
• Unconscious bias
• Feeling like you’re always held back
• Excessively worrying about your problems
• Very bleak view of your future

The truth is that despite your upbringing and your experiences of life to date YOU are a unique individual and there has NEVER been another YOU and so what YOU bring to the world, ONLY YOU can bring. Sure, you might meet someone with the same name as you, or someone who has similar values and beliefs as you, but in reality there is NO ONE like you!! YOU are unique, and that makes YOU special in my eyes. Doesn’t that excite you in some way? Knowing that what you bring to the world is unique to YOU and no-one else can bring that, only YOU can!!!!

So, for the next week, I want you to walk around believing that YOUR life matters! YOUR life has value and no-one else can bring what you have into the world and it’s needed. YOU’RE needed! Please believe that! I can’t think of a single thing that I can say that is more important than this!

You’re life matters

So, choose to love YOURSELF today and know that just your presence in the world can bring blessing and joy! I say “can” because only you can choose what you bring to the world and whether it’s a blessing or not. But if you choose to be a blessing then, believe me, what goes around comes around and what you do to bless others will chase you down the street with blessings towards YOU!! Above and beyond what you could imagine! Make the decision today to learn to love yourself, because you truly are worth it ❤.

Until next week,

Love & blessings, Sam xx