learn to take compliments better

As soon as I started this goal I started noticing my reaction when someone would give a compliment. I either downplay it, saying something about how it’s nothing special or begrudgingly I will say thank you and move on as quickly as possible. In either case, my internal reaction is one of wanting to run away and hide. I find it embarrassing. I suspect I also don’t like it because the spotlight is on me and I feel like they might find my faults, too.

compliments that are about the way I look. I’m not currently at a weight that I am happy with, so when someone compliments me I tend not to believe them or say something that contradicts what they just said. I really have to work on this and enjoy the compliment, and believe it and say “thank you.”

you’ll learn to accept a gift
when it’s offered.

A compliment is a pleasant gift,
in a pleasantly intangible way.
The memory is guarded, elusively
in the temple of the mind.

you’ll learn to accept a gift
when it’s offered.

A compliment is a pleasant gift,
in a pleasantly intangible way.
The memory is guarded, elusively
in the temple of the mind.

I have a really bad habit of being all wishy-washy and making contradictory statements when people give me compliments. The funny part is, I HATE it when people do this, yet I do it. So I’m stopping.