Hey You! You can be proud of yourself right now.

Did you know you can be proud of yourself any time you want?

Including right now?

This very minute.

You don’t need permission. You don’t need someone else to say something nice to you. You don’t need someone else to approve of you.

You don’t even need to have done anything in particular. Or at all.

You can decide to be proud of yourself at any time, for any reason, or no reason at all. Because you are worth being proud of just as you are.

You can decide to love yourself at any time. Because you are lovable just as you are.

You can decide you are worthy any time. Because you are complete and perfect just as you are.

I KNOW.

It’s contrary to everything you’ve ever learned.

That you need other people’s approval. That you need to achieve and accomplish every waking moment. That you have to be a certain way to be loved or worthy.

None of it is true.

And this learning does not serve you.

It was never meant to serve you.

It was meant to serve someone and/or something else.

It keeps you from recognizing your own worth.

From understanding that you have an innate value that is not dependent on anything other than your existence.

From being yourself.

From taking up space.

From taking risks.

From succeeding.

From thriving.

From changing your life.

From changing the world.

The key is in the unlearning. Unlearning all the ways in which you’ve been taught that you are not enough.

And you are worth that process.