When was the last time you did this? When was the last time you looked at yourself in the mirror and was like, “I love everything about myself.”

Heck when was the last time that you looked in the mirror and didn’t instantly start focusing on all the things you would like to change?

Probably never or at least not very recently I’m guessing.

And that is just sad.

So often as adults all we focus on are the things about ourselves that we want to change – the things about ourselves that we don’t like.

When did we lose the courage to say, “I love myself?”

Because, honestly, I don’t believe it isn’t that we don’t see our good points. We do recognize our good points, we just don’t focus on them because we are afraid that everyone else sees our flaws and will think that we are cocky or full of ourselves or delusional if we say we love something about ourselves.

When in reality, we focus way more on our flaws than ANYONE else out there does.

We are our own harshest critics.  And I firmly believe that.

We set our own limits. We push ourselves down.

We can say that magazines present unrealistic body images. We can can say society presents unrealistic standards.

And yes, those societal standards do seep into our brains as we age so that we can’t, with the same abandon as Jessica, say we love ourselves.

But despite what society tells you, I guarantee that there are traits that aren’t deemed beautiful or wonderful by society that you love about yourself. Yet, because society doesn’t value them, you are too afraid to admit your beauty out loud.

YOU hold yourself back.

When will it stop?

When will you muster the courage to admit that you love yourself? Flaws and all.

When will you stop picking and pushing and start enjoying and celebrating?

When will you stop setting boundaries and limits and instead look at the world and yourself for all that you have to offer?

Society isn’t going to change. Magazines. TV. Ads. Aren’t going to change….

Until we do.

So start creating change by changing your opinion of yourself. Tomorrow, look in that mirror and focus on what you LOVE not what you’d change…

And if you happen to do a little dance while looking in that mirror…well that is fine too!

No one’s judging except you.