Day 47 "Self-Improvement And Self-Empowerment"

Who knows why any of us feel the need for self-improvement?

Why do we feel the need to create a better image of ourselves?

Why do we feel so imperfect when we know that perfection is a lie, a fairy tale for adults?

Who is it that we desire to see us in another light? Perhaps we are no longer good enough for ourselves?

For whatever reason any of us might have for the execution of a dedicated plan to erase our old selves, it must be considered the best course of action. If our hearts demand it then it must be the right moves to make; this is the hope anyway.

There is no hope in staying in a dark place for too long, and there can be no happiness when the body, mind and soul are left unattended to, and left to atrophy in denial.

It is important to take every decision with a certain amount of sincerity. That you hold yourself fully accountable for the way in which you choose to grow and progress through this lifetime, how you choose to honor the temple and gift that is yourself.

What better time than now to look at your life through a microscope, to take yourself off autopilot, to look yourself in the mirror and ask "Am I making the healthy and right choices?"

You must have the strength, sincerity and honesty to acknowledge whenever you make an unhealthy choice, whenever you damage rather than protect; whenever you choose to hurt rather than heal.

You must have the dedication to grow beyond who you are today, and to shed your skin often.

You have to believe that you were never meant to stay defeated and weakened. You have to believe that you were meant to rise above the desperate undertow.

You have to believe that you were always meant to change.

Take your chances in this life, but calculate them in the healthiest way possible.

Acknowledge that we make mistakes and that even in the process of self-improvement, failure can still lead to self-empowerment.

Whatever and whomever that you choose to change for, to better yourself for, to erase yourself for,  make sure that first and foremost that it is the reflection in the mirror that still matters most of all.