Setting New Standards
Dear Savvy Woman,
For years I was inspired by the regular newsletters that Debbie Ford sent out, and as I was doing some planning for my upcoming Boot Camp event, I read through a few that I have archived. This today is the first of a two-part entry that I want to share with you.
“Withholding acknowledgement from yourself, minimizing your gifts, and projecting your greatness onto others are all forms of self-abuse. So I ask you, what would it take to acknowledge this and to penetrate the defense mechanisms that guard your heart?
For each of us, I believe it takes a shift in perception where we truly understand that there is no more time. It’s not going to happen next week, or next month, or next year. We cannot wait for things to get better, because they won’t while we’re still beating ourselves up emotionally and psychologically! And how CAN it get better if we surround ourselves with others who aren’t in the presence of our greatness and are not willing to see the greatness in themselves?
We have to set a new standard for ourselves where loving-kindness, compassion and acceptance replace judgment, ridicule and rejection. We have to demand a higher level of cared, respect and emotional integrity from ourselves, and then look for friends and a community that hold us there.”
Amen.
The gap between who I am today and who I was five years ago (heck, even last year) is due to what I decided to give to myself.
Decide to give to yourself.
Join me at my Savvy Woman’s Boot camp – a retreat here in San Francisco this Saturday, January 31st – and decide to lay the foundation for a year and life unlike that which you’ve known before.
From my savvy heart to yours ~
Leslie
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