The Complete Self Lovin’ Checklist – Part 3.

How do you know if you like yourself? How do you know if you think you are a worthy person?

What signs do you give when you don’t like yourself and alternatively what signs do you give when you do?

Lets have a look.

If you don’t like yourself you may;

1. Say horrible things to yourself like “you’re hopeless, stupid, useless, dumb, ugly” etc.

2. Believe those things you say to yourself deep into your very core.

3. Behave irrationally and inconsistently . You may be happy and lovely one minute, then awful and mean the next. You don’t treat others or yourself with consistent regard.

4. Be very rigid. You will struggle to embrace new ideas and concepts because you will find them too threatening.

5. Be fearful of new things or things you haven’t experienced or seen before.

6. Be very compliant (because you are too scared and don’t think you are worth enough to follow your own heart and dreams) or very resistant and difficult (which will come across as anger but underneath that anger is the same fear as the compliant person.) It shows up differently for everyone.

7. Become easily defensive in your manner of speech and body language.

8. Be fearful, argumentative or hateful to others.

9. Experience poor relationships that are unfulfilling and leave you feeling bad.

Do any of these sound like you? Of course we all have an off day sometimes but are these things something you experience regularly?

How about liking yourself? What does that look like?

If you like yourself you will;

1. Have warm, likable feelings inside. You’ll feel a fondness and happiness when you think about yourself. You will giggle at your little idiosyncrasies and accept them as part of who you are.

2. See others as the same as you, not better or worse.

3. Treat people with respect, goodwill and fairness.

4. Be able to cope with and adapt to change.

5. Embrace new ideas and concepts with curiosity and an open mind.

6. Willingly admit when you have made a mistake or hurt someone and do what you can to correct it.

7. Approach things with an attitude of cooperativeness and collaboration.

8. Be able to laugh at yourself.

9. Have an attitude of generosity towards others achievements.

So, go on, be honest, how did you go? Are there things you want to change?

How exciting for you, just think about how good you are going to feel when you get that thing sorted. And don’t worry, I’ll help. Over the weeks we’ll talk about lots of steps you can take to activate these good self lovin’ concepts in your own life.

It’ll be fun.

Promise.

PS. Check out Part 1 and Part 2 if you missed them. Happy reading!

 

 

Comments

  1. Penny Magro says:

    Go Shona,
    Deliver it sister! Woo

  2. Shona Smith says:

    That’s funny and sweet.
    Thanks Pen!!
    S. xx

  3. Hello Shona,

    These lists are a good example of the way you are able to get “right to the point” of something … and talk about hitting the point square on when you describe the characteristics we display when we don’t like ourselves and when we do!

    I like the way you present this issue of how we feel about ourselves because you are showing it creates behavior that affects others too… and in time everyone is in your vicious cycle of self-loathing.

    I’m looking forward to your follow-up!

    Peppy

  4. Shona Smith says:

    Hi Peppy,
    Thanks for appreciating my “right to the point” way of writing. I speak like that too and my reserved English husband has had to adjust his sensibilities sometimes to learn to live with it!
    I’m really excited about writing more as I am so passionate about people liking themselves. I think it’s life changing.
    Thanks again Peppy,
    S. xx