Convincing yourself of how flawed you are won’t make things better. It’s important for you to remember that you are enough just as you are, the more you practice it, the more you’ll believe it.
It will better serve you to focus on progress rather than perfection and on how far you’ve come instead of how far you have left to go.
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Focus on progress not perfection. Each day you practice a habit you are one step closer to making it a part of your life.
Accomplishments make people more motivated and positive. Checking them from time to time makes you remember how far you’ve gone and how valuable these achievements are to you.
Create a "goals log" in your journal. You’ll always see that you’ve got something to look forward to.
It can paralyze you from taking action because you become so afraid of not living up to some standard. And so you procrastinate and you do not get the results you want. This will make your self-esteem sink.
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