By Molly Luffy

So many people stay stuck where they are because they don’t value themselves fully. Recently I started working with a person – we’ll call her Susie – who has so many obvious talents and abilities. She’s smart as a whip and has an encyclopedic knowledge of a variety of interesting topics. She happily rattles off resources, ideas, tidbits of information. It’s very clear that Susie loves to help others and is always right there with some relevant information.

While Susie has many talents that are obvious to me, she has a difficult time recognizing them in herself. During a recent phone call I was telling her how much I appreciated her intellect and she started to cry. She shared with me that she doesn’t really feel that way about herself and struggles to appreciate her own qualities. I can certainly relate. There was a time when I struggled with my own gifts too, thinking they weren’t really that special.

But I’m over that, and Susie is on her way now, too. All of us have wonderful qualities that are unique and special. And we should lovingly appreciate ourselves for all of these qualities. It’s a delicate dance, though isn’t it? We don’t want to come off as an ego-maniac or a jerk by flaunting how great we are. But we also owe it to ourselves to heal the part of us that tells us to play small and undervalue our own gifts.

The world is changing every day. More, now than ever before, people are waking up and realizing that in order to make a difference and be their best in the world, they need to follow their soul’s lead and let go of those old beliefs about themselves that aren’t serving them anymore.

Susie is working on developing her own sense of self-love and appreciation. She understands the value that comes from this and is taking steps to live her life from this space. Are you ready to do the same thing? Are there qualities that others tell you they appreciate, that you can’t appreciate in yourself? Are you hanging on to past hurts or beliefs that aren’t serving you?

It’s time to let this all go. It’s time to get in touch with yourself, your gifts and let your inner star shine brightly. The world needs us now more than ever before, to stand in our power, to know who we are, what we believe in and be willing to take a powerful stand for those things that we care about. Loving yourself is the best gift you could ever give yourself – or the world.

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