Loving you

I will start by saying that I am not a believer in New Year's resolutions - I am a believer in realistic goal setting any day of the year. However, if I was to make a resolution for myself this year, I have decided that it would be to trust myself more, believe in my intuition and my own greatness (I did come up with that before watching Oprah this last week in case any of you were following her shows). Although everyday I try to motivate others, help them see their own strength and greatness, I have to admit that I struggle with believing in and loving myself - but, I think a lot of us do! I had a conversation with a client last week about how difficult it is to see the real "us", how cute and great we really are. Even young women, high school and college aged girls, don't see their own beauty or benefits. We are more used to picking ourselves apart and listening to our negative conversations with ourselves instead of the positive. I don't know about you, but it is easier for me to pick on myself than it is to compliment myself - how sad! So, I have decided I am going to work on being nicer to myself, because I deserve it. We all deserve it, we all work hard and we all deserve to be proud of us. Self-affirmations are positive statements that we can make to ourselves, our inner-dialogue, that can help remind us of who we are or who we want to be. They can help us re-write out "mantra" as some would say. For more information on negative scripts and positive self-affirmations, follow this link: self-affirmation article. It also gives you different ideas for how to incorporate positive self-dialogue into your daily routine. Check it out!

And, I found a website where you can read a free daily positive self affirmation.

I am going to keep a list of some of my self-affirmations right here on my blog - you can ask me if I am listening to them :) Here's to loving you!