Value and self-worth are treasures that each of us possess. The irony is that so many people believe they lack both. Yet, it is possible to boost your value and self-worth.
Value and Self-Worth: How to Boost Your Powerful Inner Gold
Do you know how to boost your value and self-worth? If you’ve been searching for self-worth and come up empty, there are ways to rediscover what you already have.
“You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being – not because anybody says so, not because you’re successful, not because you make a lot of money – but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.” – Wayne Dyer.
You Always Have Value and Self-Worth
When things look bleakest, hope seems to disappear. It’s understandable to feel hopeless, helpless, and even worthless at such times. Finding any value in our actions may also be incredibly hard.
However, what we may not realize and may have a tough time believing is that we always have value. The key is to tell ourselves this until it sinks in repeatedly, and we begin to believe it.
What It Means to Have Self-Worth and Value
Think about what it means to have value and self-worth. These are not attributes someone else gives us. One can argue that God gives us value and worth and that we’d be animals without them. That may be the subject of a philosophical discussion, but the concept likely has some merit.
For now, however, the focus is more on how our internal beliefs help shape and motivate our actions and determine the extent to which we live a meaningful life.
- Making tons of money may sound like a panacea to solve all problems, but it rarely happens. Just as you can’t buy happiness, having a stack of cash won’t ensure you feel any better about yourself than an average, hard-working individual.
- Being a celebrity or the prominent CEO of a thriving company similarly doesn’t catapult you into high self-esteem, self-worth, and value.
- Remember that value has nothing to do with dollars and cents, titles or material possessions, celebrity, or community stature.
Ways to Boost Your Powerful Gold
If you doubt your value and self-worth, realizing that you always have value may take some time to bubble up. Your value and self-worth are there. You need to be patient to discover and nurture them.
How can you do that? Here are some suggestions:
Edit Your Vocabulary
Strike the word worthless from your vocabulary. Replace it with worthwhile.
See the Positive
Strive to see the positive in everything you do, from the seemingly trivial to the most important decisions you make. How do you do this:
- Examine each potential action.
- Weigh all possible outcomes, both positive and negative.
- Choose the one that offers the most hopeful result.
Savor the Goodness in Life
Savor life’s goodness and simple pleasures, for they are all around you. How you view life helps shape how you live.
- You can do good things from the goodness of your spirit or bad things in an impulsive, punishing, lashing-out way.
- Remember that goodness is more powerful than evil.
- You can do more to bring about goodness in the world and, in so doing, elevate your own sense of value and self-worth.
Spend Your Time Wisely
Remember that each of us makes our way in the world. Life is also short, so our time is precious and deserves our best.
- How do you want to live your life so that it means more to you?
- Remember that your choices help you feel you’ve contributed something worthwhile.
Pursue Self-Improvement
What we learn helps make life more enjoyable. Our overall well-being naturally improves when we find joy in what we do.
- Always pursue self-improvement.
- Make incremental progress to overcome perceived or real shortcomings.
- Eliminate a tendency to be hypercritical of your efforts.
- Give yourself permission to make mistakes and learn from them.
Wisdom comes from experience and an increased sense of value and self-worth.
Finally, all you need to begin to believe you have value and self-worth is the decision to do so.
