Love Yourself

This is probably the most important writing content I've ever made. This content actually is made because I watch a YouTube video of Zen Habits. Leo Babauta the guy behind that Zen Habits said, we can keep improving ourselves without need to hurt ourselves.

For long times, I thought to improve ourselves, we need to beat ourselves over and over, so that could motivate ourselves to move and get better. But the reality is quite the opposite. That action wouldn't bring us anywhere. On the contrary, hurt us more. We hurt our self trust, self respect, and other thing starting with self.

Leo offers other thing that eventually could help us get better with ourselves without hurting our self respect. The idea is this simple: we don't go to self improvement with the idea of improving something that we are lacking, in fact we lack nothing. If we start to love and embrace anything we don't like about ourselves, we don't need to improve anything about ourselves.

Let's go further on that part. What we don't like about ourselves? Our body doesn't fit the ideal body? Or our income doesn't meet the ideal? But let face it with the clear mindset: what is the ideal? It's all just a fantasy, not real. We make this ideal, so we hope one day in the future we could be as good as that ideal, or as successful as that ideal, and so on. Usually those ideals come from someone that we admire from social media, someone that has already reached certain amount of success, someone that we hope we could follow their path.

But let me tell you something. What if we stop those ideals entirely? Instead, we could look up to ourselves and see what we actually want to be. Stop following other path, and start making your own.

It doesn't mean we're going to stop making a good habit like doing exercises or other habits. But we don't go to that battle with the idea to improve something from ourselves. That's nothing to be improved. Because we lack nothing, we are already perfect. We do it simply because we like it.

Imagine this: we don't go running because we hate our fat, but because we like the activity. We like moving our body. We enjoy that sensation. Imagine that? What if we go with that mindset?

Thanks to Leo Babauta for this beautiful mindset. I'll go implementing this from now on, and see where this is going to bring me to!