Have Patience with Yourself

One of the greatest ways we hold ourselves back is by being far more demanding than we would with anyone else. We support, nurture and encourage our loved ones to be successful and happy, then turn around and belittle and scold ourselves for not doing or being “enough.” We obsess about our physical flaws, dismiss our achievements and force ourselves to measure up to some imaginary standard we’ve set in our own minds. Is it any wonder we feel awful much of the time?

If this describes you, you are all too familiar with the sinking sense of defeat such habits cause.

Perhaps you have given up on improving your life because you just “can’t seem to get it right.” Maybe you have set goals and failed to achieve them in the past, or you avoid goal-setting activities altogether because you know you’ll never succeed anyway. Perhaps it is time to ask yourself: Are you expecting too much? Are you pushing yourself beyond your limits, expecting perfection, and berating yourself viciously when you slip up? No one can work effectively under that type of pressure! You would never treat your friends and loved ones like that, so why do it to yourself?

Today, take a few minutes to acknowledge that you are a work in progress. Not only are you not perfect now, you never will be. No one is! If you are in the habit of comparing yourself to others or forcing yourself to measure up to some impossible standard, it is time to let go of your unrealistic expectations and embrace a gentler attitude of patience and self-love. Become your own best friend by nurturing, loving and caring for yourself. Push yourself hard enough to feel challenged and exhilarated, but not so hard that you feel pressured and abused. Let go of impossible standards and instead allow yourself to be exactly who you were meant to be: beautiful, imperfect, blissfully unique YOU.

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One Response to “Have Patience with Yourself”

gary mikes says:

September 16, 2008 at 7:34 pm

Thanks for the advice that’s true but what about putting ur self around the people u want to be like ? I mean I’m broke and I’m around broke people if they were rich ill be rich or wealthy not to say that its up to them on how my life turns out but a good percent of it is true what about being humble I’ve being humble and patient my whole life the question is how long should I be like this when tomorrow aint promised man my life is like a rollacoaster with no ups to experience a new hieght my motivation is that I want to be the first in my family to succeed or be successful ill be the first wealthy one I pushed my self in a hole by having a kid and not even that the type of mother my kid have she aint one of them types to even think of doing some thing to be successful so I am on my own on this one and sorry to say but I’m the only one that’s trying I just tell myself its worth the struggle but damn how long do u have to struggle there’s no leaders just followers when some body talks about it and able to plant some thing good it makes u wanna go after it when it can change u for the better