It took me twenty years to find out.
Throughout my twenties and thirties, I lacked self-confidence.
I remember in a self-development course I attended; I thought so highly of other participants and so lowly of myself that I kept my head low and didn’t say a word.
But then the course facilitator did something that changed my life forever.
She gave all the participants a sheet of paper with the name of each participant on each sheet of paper and asked us to write one good trait we saw in each other.
At the end of the exercise, we got to read our sheets.
When I read mine, I cried.
Others thought I was:
– Logical
– Intelligent
– Hard working
– Clear thinker
– Highly educated
– Compassionate
– Conscientious
– Determined
– Smart
– Witty
I never saw those qualities in me.
I only saw my faults.
At that moment, I changed.
I became a person who was all those things that others saw in me.
We all have good-traits and not-so-good traits.
But by nature, we choose to concentrate on not-so-good ones. They make us feel inadequate.
When we don’t respect ourselves, others don’t respect us either.
Try to identify good-traits in yourself. If you are having trouble, ask the people around you to spot one good thing they like in you.
Collect them and put them where you can see them every day.
You are all those things and more.
So, what’s the biggest thing you can achieve in your life? “It is to be comfortable in your skin.”