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I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and gosh darn it, people like me.
Yeah, it does sound pretty hokey! But it’s an important thing, and I think not a lot of people really get it. It’s not really so much about loving yourself as a) taking responsibility for your own happiness, b) making the commitment to treating your self in the best way possible, and c) accepting yourself exactly the way you are. That last part doesn’t necessarily mean that you can’t be open to changing yourself, of course, but you have to start out being OK with the raw materials that life has handed you so far. It’s brutal self-honesty, but in a good way.
Great stuff.
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It really is. Since we’re talking about the hokey good stuff, one of the things that surpised me the most was how resistant to being happy I was. I had to tell myself over and over that I deserved it (and still do). It’s a strange world that we live in.
Oh, and thanks for all the well-wishes, everyone. I do consider this a major success in my life; it is possibly the hardest thing I’ve ever done.