Do These Things & You'll Succeed

I talk often about the importance of creating one’s own best daily environment to encourage healing and growth, and there are many components that might go into that.

Stress reduction, employing a support system, positive information intake, the presence of a soothing and encouraging home atmosphere, and regular goal setting are just a few of the things that might help you to construct the optimal environment for yourself in a given week.

But at the end of the day, what does a person really need in order to keep moving forward and to find healing and personal progress? Well, three things actually.

1) First, you need to value yourself. If you don’t value yourself, then there is no point to caring for yourself. If you don’t value yourself, there is no point to working on yourself. If you don’t value yourself, there is no point to setting goals involving your future. Valuing yourself is the first step to reaching a better future.

2) Also, you need to believe that progress is possible. With time and your efforts, progress will happen.

3) Finally, refuse to give up. Don’t allow fear, doubt, or detractors to get in your way.

These three things - valuing yourself, believing with a capital B, and refusing to give up - are the keys to success no matter what you are working toward.

If you value yourself and believe that good things await you in the future, you will never give up on yourself.

It’s hard to stop such determination. Impossible, really.

If you believe that personal progress and healing are 100 percent possible and indeed the logical results of your work combined with time, then you will never give up on yourself.

Good things are simply going to happen that way, even if it takes some time.

Focus on this truth as you move through another day of healing and growth.

Michael