Overcome Your Insecurities by Treating Them Like an Imperfect Friend.
If you are burdened with insecurities, think of them the same way as an imperfect friend.
We all feel insecure about something, whether it’s a physical quality that we don’t like about ourselves, or a personality quirk that we think makes us strange. Instead of shaming yourself for your shortcomings, Zen Habits’ Leo Babauta invites you to treat these qualities as if they were a buddy stuck by your side through all the difficulties:
Pause and self-assess. Pay attention to the parts of yourself, both your body and your inner self, that you do not like … See them as the imperfect parts of yourself that they are, deserving love, because an imperfect friend also deserves love. Think about how you would treat this imperfect friend, and treat yourself the same way. Give yourself confidence, show compassion.
Your friends are not perfect, no one is perfect, but you shake them anyway because you know you wouldn’t be the same without them. It’s the same with things that you feel insecure about. They are what makes you you . You don’t always have to like these qualities, but they don’t have to be a constant source of negativity.
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