“If you lack self-love and treat yourself as unimportant, others will see you as unimportant as well. If you feel yourself unworthy of the time and effort required to lose weight, then it is unlikely that you will grow healthier and happier”. -JJ Smith
This really got my mind turning. I can remember all of the women that I dated that I loved. I noticed that when we broke up, or should I say when the woman broke things off. I would get sad, and chase after them. I would call them over and over, trying to work things out. I would make myself overly available, sacrificing my time in the gym or whatever personal enrichment activity that I had planned. All of that for a shot at Redemption.
Boy what a waste of time and a way to show yourself that you don’t really love and appreciate yourself.
Yes if you love someone you should show it. Yes, in matters of love the ego needs to be put to the side.
But…..
We do not sacrifice our self worth for nothing and nobody. We do not chase after anybody more than we chase after the God that’s within us. God being the creative force within us that makes life happen. I was moaning and groaning instead of training. I was trippin instead of studying. I was worrying instead of trusting that I was worth someone else’s love. I made myself invaluable.
No wonder I couldn’t get the weight off completely. Because I felt unworthy I couldn’t harness the intestinal fortitude necessary to finish what I had started. After all I would ultimately be let down was my subconscious belief. This is self sabotage folks. I would drop what I was doing for a phone call, a meeting with that person, or just simply spend way too much time obsessing over whether or not they would call me. That’s self robbery.
I basically treated myself the way I saw myself; UNIMPORTANT.
