Wellness Wednesday| Be Prepared for something “Bigger”
Having a seal of approval these days means so much, it’s worth, is as great as winning the lottery. The need for approval starts at childhood from your parents and extends into adult years with your relationships with friends, spouse, co-workers, boss, and even from total strangers. Your worth is so much based on the approval of others that it can dictate your life choices and prevent you from reaching your true potential. In Social Media, you get approval from the amount of likes and love you receive from your posts. From friends and families, your approvals are based on the time and money they spend on you, the more time and money they give, the greater the approval you feel.
You cannot always rely on other people to approve your actions and emotions. Not everything you do can be approved, even you don’t approve of your own decisions, actions and emotions all the time but you learn to accept it and move on. Needing other’s approval is like an addiction, where you constantly look for the next complements, encouragements to cheer you on. Relying on them to make you feel good about yourself can lead you into discouragement and discontent, making you work harder just to get their approval. Recognizing that your value as a person is not based on what others do or don’t do for you or how much they give you or don’t give you can be the first step to acceptance. Your value is based on accepting what you have been given and know that you have to accept yourself and validate yourself. Those that don’t approval you may not be part of your purpose or destiny, learn to move on and don’t waste the pain, sorrow and disappointment, rather let it be a preparation for something bigger in your life.