The best version of you

 

 

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 My confidence has taken a beating for years, starting as a young child.

 

 

You are not good enough because you are overweight. Boys don’t like you. It’s ok for a man to disrespect you.

Your job that is looked down on, ‘you don’t need schooling to do that job’.

When are you going to university? When are you buying a house? When are you having children?

Don’t leave it too long or it may be too hard.

 

 

The last few months I have noticed a big shift in me.

 

 

I don’t need or want to be skinny. I deserve to be respected. I have more intelligence than what the company I work for believes I have. I am not utilized for what I am capable. I don’t want to go to university, it’s not me. I’m still saving for a house. It’s not that I don’t want children….

 

I want to more than anything.

 

 

It amazes me how people, (whether close to you or not) and their opinions and comments about you, can have you believe every little negative thing they say, knowing you and your situation or not.

 

 

This shift in me has been welcomed with open arms.

Perhaps it comes with age, or just having had enough,

But

 

I have decided to shake off any of these small minded opinions/comments, past and present, and work every day for me.

Who I am and who I strive to be.

 

 

 

I want to be the best version of myself.

 

 

  

What can you do towards being the best version of yourself?

 

What step/s can you begin with?