Self-Love

Jesus said, "Love your neighbor as yourself." The implication is that our ability to love others is limited by our ability to love ourselves. A person who is continually self-critical and carries a lot of self-hate will find great difficulty in trying to love others. One can not give what they do not have.

I've made a few mistakes in my business along the way. I'm a self-employed massage therapist, and there have been a couple appointments over the last few months that I missed. Either I neglected to check my schedule the night before, or I made arrangements with a client and forgot to record it, or most recently, someone with the same first name cancelled their appointment and I erased the wrong appointment from my schedule. It would be easy to dwell on these mistakes, because they cost me money and in one case it cost me a client. I'm working on forgiving myself quickly, letting go of those mistakes, and focusing my energy on improving in the future instead of thinking about the mistakes of the past.

Whether mistakes are big or small, let's let go of them quickly and put our attention on the positive, on the solution. Energy flows where attention goes, give more energy to the solution, give more energy to forgiveness and love, than you do to your problems and mistakes.