Saturday, January 9, 2010

Self Approval

There is nothing that will hold you back in life more than waiting on other people’s approval. You may never even see the day. The only approval you need is Self-approval. We all have flaws and have done things that we feel guilty for doing. Don’t harp on those things. Focus on making sure that whatever you did wrong never happens again. Use the situation to mold yourself into a better person. People make mistakes and not everyone may forgive you for what you have done. Unfortunately, that is just the consequences of your actions. Forgiving yourself and asking God for forgiveness is what’s most important. Some people aren’t always going to “approve” how you look. Everyone has something that they are self-conscious of. It could be their weight, height, nose, ears, toes, hands, hair, acne, Etc. Some people dwell on it more than others. Sometimes we become self-conscious because of what other people say about us. You might not have ever thought anything was “wrong” until someone pointed it out to you. I use to always have bigger feet than my friends in middle school. They would always make jokes about them. I started to get self-conscious about my feet, so I would never wear sandals. Now I look back like "was i really self-conscious about my feet"? Something on my body that I obviously can’t change and have no control over how they look. Now I love my feet. People tell me all the time that I have really nice feet. In the summer I’d rather wear sandals than any other shoe. So sometimes you have to look at the reason why you are self-conscious. Is it really because it’s something you don’t like about yourself or is because someone influenced you into not liking something about yourself. No matter what your outside appearance is always know that you have a talent that no one else in this world has. There is something big or small that you can do better than anyone else can. That is something that no one can take away from you. Always know that you can do anything that you put your mind to. You don’t need anyone else’s approval. Take all the necessary steps that you possibly can to achieve your goals. Do it right the first time. Cutting corners will only set you back in the long run. Educate yourself. Sometimes the best teacher is yourself by learning through trial and error. I believe all you have to do is choose what you want to be in life. Follow your heart, and take the first step. Have the faith and confidence that you can achieve all your goals. As you achieve one goal you will create new goals and you will eventually reach the success that you want.


Love,Live,Give,More. <3

Love Always,

Sherixoxo

7 comments:

  1. I think the biggest asset I'll ever have is my confidence. I feel I can just shut out what other people are saying about me and keep saying to myself "I like who I am." Nobody can change me. Nobody can tell me what to eat, what to wear, etc. What matters to me is ME.

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  2. Julia and Sarah Reindl (dollforlife)January 9, 2010 at 1:28 PM

    dare to be different i would say. don't let anyone control your mind. thanks for the blog post..it's wonderful and i'm always so speecheless after your words cuz they are 100% the truth and they help me see lots of things way different. :) muuaaahh

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  3. exactly!! that's it girl! we can't take other people's commments too serious, to the point that they make us feel insecure about ourselves.. We are not perfect, nobody is. Nowdays we live in a world where your look seems to be too important, but the truth is that there is nothing more important than the personality. So if someone is overweight, has too big ears,.. any physical "flaw", we shouldn't attach importance to them.
    Being confident, wow! That will help u a lot in your life. No criticism will affect u ;-)
    (i love how u express yourself gurl! u r so concise and clear on what u wanna say)

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  4. just can say OMG Sheri, God bless you!
    i think that everybody try to don´t go down with the opinnions of the people, but not for everybody is so easy...And more if you live in a city of people that have the mind short! We just have to believe in ourselves! With time all is possible! If you have something that you don´t like (In general) , you just have to write the goal in a paper or in directly in ur mind and try to do your best ALWAYS for improve! We have to be the change that we want see! :)


    GUYS!! NEVER GIVE UP!! PURSUE YOUR DREAMS!!


    Love you Shery Lynn <3
    LLGM Family
    xoxo

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  5. I can really relate to what you said (: you are a very talented writer miss sheri ;D
    keep doing what you love.....

    "What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval." - Mark Twain

    xx Mira

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  6. Wow, love this! Self-approval is also knowing how to work with what you're given. After being a competitive national gymnast, I switched to ballet. But I didn't know that you needed a certain type of body to be a ballerina. I was always scrutinized for my broad shoulders despite being good at ballet. It was always the one thing judges commented on and it usually costed me from "winning" at dance competitions. When I saw PCD and how they each had different bodies, I slowly realized where in the dance world I was meant to be. I loved dancing, that's all that counts. Once I accepted my body, the muscles I had gained from yrs of gymnastics .. I used those tools somewhere else in the dance world, and I began to see the commercial dance industry was where I really belonged, I just had to find it.

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  7. "I started to get self-conscious about my feet, so I would never wear sandals. Now I look back like was i really self-conscious about my feet ? Something on my body that I obviously can’t change and have no control over how they look. Now I love my feet."

    Often the things you hate about yourself (like your feet) are the things your loved ones love about you.

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