In my first post, I talked about about what self-care is - it is not salt baths and chocolate cake, it is making the choice to build a life you don’t need to regularly escape from. It is making a lifestyle that you are happy with.
What do I mean by being the most beautiful you? It is about having a positive outlook on life and yourself. Being the most beautiful you is not about what others think, but what YOU think about YOURSELF. Making healthy choices and habits will lead you to be happier with yourself and thus see yourself as in the best possible way. Today I will talk about steps you could take that will hopefully inspire you to see life in a more beautiful and positive way.
1. Be Grateful
Sometimes, there is so much stress and negativity going on in your life that you forget to be grateful about the little things that you have. Take some time out of your day and think, or write down, about the things - especially the little things - that you are grateful about. Doing this will help develop a more positive outlook about life in general.
2. Surround Yourself with Good People
Your relationship with other people can really affect your mood, mindset and overall life satisfaction. Surround yourself with people that understand you, respect you, care about you and support you.
Surround yourself with people whose values match yours, or people whose values you want to develop more within yourself. Make sure your relationships with people are healthy - meaning you communicate healthily with them and set reasonable boundaries.
Having a healthy relationship with others means you feel more secure about them and can easily open up about problems with them. This means it is easier for you to reach out to them and ask for help. Opening up about problems to your friends allows them to support and comfort you to help clear your mind.
Friends that are always there to support you and make you feel better can actually help you have a more positive mindset on yourself and a healthier mindset with life as you have people you can enjoy it with.
Having a healthy relationship with others means you feel more secure about them and can easily open up about problems with them. This means it is easier for you to reach out to them and ask for help. Opening up about problems to your friends allows them to support and comfort you to help clear your mind.
Friends that are always there to support you and make you feel better can actually help you have a more positive mindset on yourself and a healthier mindset with life as you have people you can enjoy it with.
3. Be Less Critical
As mentioned in my post before, we are our biggest critics which means we bring ourselves down the most. Start creating a habit of talking more positively about yourself, rather than negatively. While you may be making self-deprecating jokes, it can actually demotivate you and make you feel worse inside even though it's meant to be funny. So try to stop bringing yourself down and start bringing yourself up!
Work on yourself by being kind to yourself, as you would with your friend.
Additionally, try being more positive when you're around your friends and partner. Remember to also take care and support the people around you. Your friends also need your support and comfort sometimes. You also need to take care of them when they do not feel like themselves.
