Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It: The positive self-help phenomenon

The maps and beliefs of humanity are available to me. I must pick what speaks to me, then go all in. Life rewards me when I take a stand, when I say, “This is what I believe in and I’m going to live it fully.”

Do whatever it takes to feel powerful from the inside out. To feel in control. To feel that I happen to things. Decide that I and only I am responsible for my feelings, my emotions, and ultimately, my life. Every single piece.

What is is what happened. There is not one single thing I can do about it. It is the past. And the past is dead. Done. The only question is, Who am I going to be today? That’s it.

Key is this, when in darkness, have a light switch you’ve chosen standing by.

I’ve come to believe that living this way taps us into the flow of life. Rather than fight or struggle, we go with the natural evolution of things. Perhaps that’s why not only our inside shifts, our outside does as well.

I’ve used commitments to transform my health, my fitness, my finances, my relationships. And, of course, the commitment that changed everything—to love myself. I make it again and again.

One: Your thoughts and emotions create your internal state. Two: Your internal state influences your external state. Three: Your external state affects your life.

Something I’ve learned: to grow fast, find someone you admire, and then model whatever it is about them that inspires you.

For mental, I will write daily. I will take this pain and energy and create something from it.

For spiritual, whenever I catch myself in my head, spinning and falling, I’ll put my hand over my heart and return to myself.