W.I.N. Wednesday: Progress and Self Loathing
In a recent blog post by James Clear, the author of Atomic Habits, he shared some important wisdom his wife passed along to him:
You can be happy with who you are and still want to be better. You can love your body and still want to improve it. You can appreciate your financial state and still want to improve it.
Progress does not require self-loathing. You can feel successful along the way.
Progress does not require self-loathing, hating your body or your life or hitting rock bottom. Sometimes those are motivators, but they do not have to be. Self-loathing takes a toll and can become a mindset that will lead you down a dangerous path.
It is also important to understand that just because you are happy with where you are does not mean you have to settle. You can be happy and still continually strive to improve, grow, learn and get better. Committing to the pursuit of excellence and striving to be a little bit better tomorrow than you are today does not mean you can never be happy. In fact happiness is likely a result of the journey and what you learn along the way.
What’s Important Now? Like yourself, love yourself, be proud of who you are and what you have accomplished and then get back to work on the journey to continually being a better version of yourself.
Take care.
Brian Willis
www.lifesmostpowerfulquestion.com
Maximizing human potential through Life's Most Powerful Question - What's Important Now?
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