How to Love Yourself​SelfLoveOriginal

If you hate yourself, you will most likely fail. If you love yourself, your chances of success are much higher.

So how can you increase your love for yourself?

Simple!

“If you love others, you will love yourself.”
“If you hate others, you will hate yourself.”
“A healthy state of being is to be a friend to yourself.” — L. Ron Hubbard

Self-Improvement Exercise

Try this concept right now.

1. Take a minute to hate people. Look at a few people and just hate them. How do you feel about yourself?

2. Now love others. Look around and love everyone you see. How do you feel about yourself now?

3. Spend all day loving people. Find something to love about everyone you meet. Continue until your opinion of yourself improves.

Your road to success is much easier if you are your own best friend.

Five Tips for Application

Once you can love yourself whenever you like, use it to improve your life with ideas like these.

1. Love yourself whenever you feel worried or afraid. You will feel more courage.

2. If you cannot sleep, love yourself. You will relax and see a better future.

3. If you regret something you did in the past, forgive yourself. You did the best you could do at the time.

4. If you are being attacked, penalized or punished, love yourself as your first priority. Even if no one else likes you, be a friend to yourself.

5. If you worry about a bad future of loss or death, decide that no matter what happens, you will always love yourself. 

Next: More ways to be your own best friend.