that the solution to all my problems – whether they’re to do with my health, career, relationships, or happiness – is probably learning to love myself. I read in a book about positive thinking (The power is within you) that loving yourself is the most important thing you can do, because when you love yourself, you are not going to hurt yourself or anyone else. This, I think, is most likely true.
I love myself more today than I did five years ago but less than I did a year ago. Recently I’ve found myself hating myself for silly reasons and hence it’s no wonder I haven’t been treating myself too well lately. I mostly abuse my body, that’s why I adopted the ‘love my body goal’ as a sub-goal to this one. But I also abuse myself mentally, probably much more than I even realise. I also cause unnecessary arguments and get angry when there’s really no need to. I make my life much more difficult than it should be.
I saw a book today that I might pick up at some point. It’s called love yourself and it doesn’t matter who you marry and it basically argues that every relationship you have is a reflection of yourself/how you feel about yourself and until you learn to love and respect yourself, you’re going to have the same relationship problems over and over again. This makes sense to me and is probably the key to making my marriage work.
I’m also going to make sure I really work on my ‘be positive’ goal and generally put myself first. Overall, I feel very positive about this and I feel like I’m about to really start living now.
