If it's good for you, make it a habit.

Learn to work with yourself in the moment. Handle only the moment as it comes. Learn to cooperate with the moment. Accept what is. Work with yourself and what is.

Practice being kinder to yourself. Practice celebrating your accomplishments. Practice complimenting yourself. Give your best effort and at the end of the day, smile at another day well lived. Have the best possible relationship that you can with yourself so that you don't end up standing in your own way. Speak kindly to yourself and about yourself. If you can't appreciate yourself, then you won't be able to accept when someone else does either. You deserve your own love.

Act, think, do, according to your truth, according to who you are, and who you want to be. Congruency matters. How can you escape when you betray your heart, your passion, your needs and your mind? There is no hiding. It will eat you alive. Even if it is difficult, even if it may seem impossible, stay true to yourself. No one can live this life but you. If you live your life solely for others but never for yourself, you will impair your ability to truly help others. Whatever is within us always seeps out through our words, actions and behaviour. If we sabotage ourselves by doing what we may think we are supposed to, according to others but not according to our own hearts, what will our children and loved ones think? What are we showing the world when we betray our very nature? Will others think this is an act of love or self-love? Worse still if others then attempt to mimic it and do the same. Would you want your child deeply unhappy because they were following what they thought they had to, what was expected? If you wouldn't wish that for your child, then don't wish it for yourself either. Be just as loving and caring to yourself as you would be to those you love the most. Learn to love yourself enough to allow yourself to dream, explore, follow your passions, and even risk failure. Follow the truths that are carried within the heart of your soul.

Stand in the sunshine of love. Bathe in the beauty that is life, that is you. Put love into everything you do. Put it into your words and actions. Love yourself. Live with gratitude. Let it wash over you. Appreciate yourself. Love the beauty of your own soul.

You've got to be able to look at the mirror and smile at yourself. If you can't do that, you've got work to do. You have to learn to get along with yourself, to like yourself, to be proud of yourself. You've got to learn to celebrate yourself. You need to be able to love yourself before you can ever appreciate anyone else who does. You're worth it. Put the work in to have the best relationship with yourself that's possible.