7 Routine Activities To Boost Your Self-Worth
By: La Dolce Vita Diary
Tags: Self, Identity, Productivity, Success, Personal Growth

7 Routine Activities To Boost Your Self-Worth

Your daily micro shifts help you rise and shine

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You may have heard this story.

Once upon a time, there were four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important task to be done. Everybody was sure that somebody would do it. Anybody could’ve done it. But you know, nobody did it.

Somebody got angry about that because it was everybody’s job. Everybody thought anybody could do it. Nobody realized that everybody wouldn’t do it. Everybody blamed somebody when nobody did what anybody could’ve done.

When I hear that story, I think the important task is to go vote, a topic we hear discussions about in our daily lives. No one person’s vote makes the final decision, but each person can importantly cast their voice or vote.

A low self-worth person can think their voice doesn’t matter. A person with high self-esteem would think their opinion is important and can make a difference. The prideful person can wrongfully think their opinion is the only one that is right, or matters.

If you think you have low self-worth, you want to change your opinions of yourself to live your best life and for your overall well being.

Low self-worth can be situational if life isn’t going as you planned. If you question or doubt your self-worth, you may just need a tune up to boost start loving yourself again, the opposite of selfish.

Because you can’t authentically come to the world, whole and loving if you have a small tank of love for yourself.

Lack of self-worth thoughts come from your past and present situations or relationships. As signs, you could be sulking in self-pity, lazily moping around or unproductive.

If you feel less than worthy, this could exacerbate in a relationship when you may be confronted with a mirror showing you who you are. There’s a disconnect when you are expected to show consideration for others and you can’t authentically show up for yourself.

The good news is you can boost your self-worth with daily routines for you and others around you.

7 Routine Activities To Boost your Self-Worth

1. Give yourself love (self-love).

Look in the mirror and in your eyes, and repeat saying “I love you.” This may seem silly or narcissistic, but your brain and inner self needs to hear these words.

Make every cell in your mind and body aware. You are talented and worthy of love. A person or an opportunity will appreciate your qualities.

State people aloud you’ve helped and how.

If you feel guilty for any situations recent or past, forgive yourself. If you did wrong, you want to free yourself from beating yourself up by playing in your mind what happened, over and over again. Practice apologizing if someone else is involved. Tell yourself you didn’t know better at the time, and now you know, and will do better.

If after humble reflection, you can’t think of what you did wrong, tell yourself you did nothing wrong to let go of the self-imposed guilt, to positively move forward.

2. Take care of yourself (self-care).

Look in the mirror at another time from your self-love routine.

What physical features do you like? Zero in and appreciate those. Do something to accentuate those features like flex a muscle or put on a big smile. Feel powerful.

Conquer fear and stress. Take care of your body and appearance. If you don’t feel good about your outside, that feeds into your mind and can lower your feelings about yourself. And when you have stress, you can develop skin disorders and small maladies that don’t help your psyche feel good.

In yoga studios, there are often times full length mirrors in the room to help you witness and adjust your pose. If you don’t like to look, then that’s a mirror into how you feel about yourself, your body and appearance.

In the same way, when you’re working out, put a full length mirror in front of you. If you feel you have to suck in your gut, hide a part, or you lose your smile at what you see, then that’s an area you can work on so you feel good about yourself again.

3. Focus on your inside character.

If you focus on material stuff and satisfying wants to make you happy and give you identity, you’ll just be chasing the fleeting things to feed your fix. And then still be unsatisfied and unfulfilled. Authentic growing happiness inside you and your thoughts, can complete you.

I went from a 4,000 square foot home to a 200 square foot space. In the bigger home I had to think of how to fill the space, and then the opposite for the smaller place. I was forced to look at my situation instead of my stuff. Looking back I realized I had everything all along that I needed inside me to feel whole.

4. Lose the self-deprecating humor or attitude. Think before you speak.

Don’t make fun of yourself to make a situation less heavy. Words matter and what you feed to your mind matters most. Words bring reality to light. You become what you say or feed your mind.

In a relationship, especially don’t make fun of an unhappy relationship no matter how cathartic it may feel in the moment. Because you could find yourself alone soon. After the dust has settled, lessons learned would be a better place to channel your settled in healed thoughts that could help others not make the same mistakes.

5. Accomplish something daily.

When you get your adrenaline going or blood flowing, you have more energy to stand ontop of the world. Meet a goal and your self-esteem increases. Your self-worth is positively impacted as a result.

When you work on the same daily project, over time the details become something significant you can see and marvel over like a Seurat pointillism painting.

6. Help someone who is less fortunate or appreciative of your help.

When you help someone who is grateful for your time and effort, you feel better about yourself. Your doing a good deed can have lasting effects. Volunteering could be a regular way to keep feeling good.

7. Find a calming hobby or activity.

When you’re at peace, you don’t feel anxiety that can make you feel less than. Activities such as reading may seem relaxing but could make you more anxious if you’re mind isn’t settled.

An activity where you use your instincts, is better. Your mind can safely go on auto-pilot rest from thinking for several moments while pool swimming or knitting.

Free divers know how to calmly dive to the bottom of the water without equipment or oxygen tanks. They conserve their air by being calm.

Like divers, without fear, your calm state can increase your productivity, and your success that boosts your self-worth.

You and the people around you may already know your potential, but you need to know your self-worth to unleash your power and authentic happiness. Your self-worth discovery and how important you are now, can be one of the most empowering breakthroughs you make. You’ll never look in the mirror the same.