Do you think you are not good enough, productive enough, pretty enough, thin enough? In this article, I share what I believe is the main source of our unhappiness and how a specific gratitude practice can help you learn to love yourself and be confident again. I also give you a free extract from my gratitude journal, “My Happy Place”, including a PDF gratitude journal template.
Better, faster, prettier, thinner!
Do you think you are not good enough, productive enough, pretty enough, thin enough?
You’re not alone… The constant pressure to perform and the steady flow of information in our society keep raising our own expectations of what we should be doing and who we should be. It gives us a constant sense of failing.
Never being where we want to be makes us unhappy. We lose touch with what we already have (achieved & experienced); who we already are. If you are unhappy with yourself or your life, you may have lost this connection.
Learn to love yourself through focused questions
I want to encourage you to pay more attention to the good in you and your life again. With this small change in focus you can:
- learn to love yourself & your life again
- increase your self-esteem
- move through life with more ease
… naturally… through a simple journal routine and targeted questions that are specifically designed to make you feel more resilient, at ease, and happier. You can find examples of such guided questions in my free gratitude journal extract below.
How Bianca’s teenage daughter did it
For example, Bianca told me about her teenage daughter. She was able to increase her self-esteem through my gratitude journal “My Happy Place” by recognizing what she already has (achieved & experienced), who she already is… Naturally through self-reflection with the daily questions in the journal. *1
The funny thing is that when you learn to love yourself, you are often more successful, more productive, have better relationships and are more resilient. What you actually want. Just without the pressure.
Learn to love yourself with a specific gratitude routine
In my guided gratitude journal “My Happy Place”, I share a gratitude routine that has helped me and many others to increase our self-worth. Download the free extract from “My Happy Place” now and start your journey to more inner peace, resilience and joy. Learn to love yourself & your life again!
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P.S. I created the journal out of my own challenges with overwhelming dissatisfaction and paralyzing self-doubt.
I never felt good enough and had trouble accepting myself. It made me unhappy and at some point, I felt lost. I started asking myself specific questions every day to practice seeing the positive in myself and my life. After a short period of time, I actually began to notice a difference. My vitality began to return and I became happier.
Thus, I made it my mission to create this journal and share it with you. My hope is that it will have a similar impact on you and your life. We are all unique, and therefore your challenges and dissatisfactions may be in different areas. With this journal, I hope to help you see the good that already exists in you and your life. To help you learn to love yourself and your life again …
Bianca’s personal words
*1 I received the following email from Bianca (name changed). Her daughter used my gratitude journal series “My Happy Place”.
Aileen,
Thank you so much. Just a little more about my daughter, she is her biggest critic. She has been raised to try her best but not to her own detriment. B’s are better than A’s if you’re happier. But there’s still something in her that her own mind is her biggest hurdle.
[…] I know how much self-doubt is inside. I have been there. Your book acknowledges that, even elicits it. But past that is a power for her to choose what is next for her, what is right for her, and what is good for her. She has no need to get that direction from anyone else. Your book has helped with that in a smooth way that she has incorporated into her nightly routine.
I am not the first to ask for journal volume number 2, she is. 😊 Thank you for your work. […]
Bianca