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I've wasted a lot of time trying to punish myself into behaving. It didn't really work for me. I mean, it worked because I was thin, or high-achieving or whatever I wanted so much I had to make myself into a piece of shit to achieve it. But I was never happy. And I was even more unhappy when I reached my supposed goal and I was still the same piece of shit I had been all along.
When I start from a place of self-love, no matter what size I am, what job I have or where I am with my goals, I find that I do better. Not to say that I achieve more, but my life is more well rounded, my health is better, and I like myself and I have a lot more good days.
It's one thing to try and force yourself to be someone you think you might like, it's another to like yourself enough to want to take good care of yourself and do well on principal.
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