You. You are beautiful.

In case no one has told you: You are beautiful. You are smart. You made it this far. 💕

I have recently been focusing a lot on my personal development. Last year I focused on my health, nutrition, and skincare--this year I'm working on myself from a much different direction. One of the podcasts I've been listening to is The Brendon Show from Brendon Burchard.

During his most recent podcast titled Demonstrate More Love and Validation, he focuses on the simple task of giving people the validation they seek. Seems like a simple concept, right? He claims that in order to lead people and truly make a difference in the world, we need to value people and validate their experiences.

Burchard says that people now take joy in making fun of others and putting others down. And this includes how we speak to ourselves. So many of us haven't given ourselves the credit we deserve. We aren't valuing ourselves. We aren't validating our own experiences.

What are you doing to lift others up? Think about those actions you take in order to be kind to those around you. Now, think about how you talk to yourself. Burchard claims if "give what we want to receive" it will all fall into place. If we want to be treated kindly we must treat others kindly. If we want others to have compassion for us we must have compassion ourselves. If we want to be loved we must love. And all of this applies to ourselves.

Once again, you are beautiful. You are smart. You made it this far.

Have you told YOURSELF that lately? Because you should. You need to. The more you tell yourself those things the more you'll believe them, and the less you'll believe the hurtful things people say. Including yourself. So practice this. Self-love. Because you deserve happiness. We all deserve happiness.