<p><b data-redactor-tag="b">Create reasons to feel proud about who you are</b></p><p> In this article you will learn</p><ul> <li>-<b data-redactor-tag="b">9 points checklist - are you proud of who you are</b></li> <li>-<b data-redactor-tag="b">63 reasons to be proud of yourself right now – as you are today</b></li> </ul><p><b data-redactor-tag="b"><br></b></p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">Self-pride is not possible – unless you know, accept and love yourself</b> with all your weaknesses, flaws, mistakes etc. – unconditionally and completely.</p><p>If you have low self-worth – <b data-redactor-tag="b">creating pride for self can be a very-very tough battle within yourself</b> - till you are able to face and demolish all your inner-demons.</p><p>All of us have <b data-redactor-tag="b">some dark secrets and all of us have done something that we are not proud of</b>.</p><p>But our past – <b data-redactor-tag="b">should not be the reason we suffer from low self-esteem and lack pride in self</b>.</p><p>It is <b data-redactor-tag="b">very easy to feel proud of your family and others</b> and is very healthy to feel happy, proud and joy for others.</p><p>But <b data-redactor-tag="b">it becomes uphill task to see yourself as a person you are proud of</b>.</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">Lack of pride in self - is one of the major cause of feeling de-motivated, uninspired, energy-less</b> and being confused about your goals.</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">Being proud for the efforts, enthusiasm and energy you have put to make your and the lives of your loved ones</b> - can be the best celebration of your life and yourself.</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">When you tell yourself internally as well as others – verbally – that what you have accomplished is insignificant</b> – and may feel subconsciously that you don't deserve to be loved, to be happy, to have wonderful relationship, be fit and healthy – <b data-redactor-tag="b">then everything in life including your closest relationships get impacted negatively</b>.</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">Everyone has something to be proud of but many of us feel and are scared - that it would look bad and seen as boastful</b> – to show pride in self.</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">Feeling pride about self is about recognizing your worth and it is nothing to feel guilty about.</b></p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">I know many people who are accomplished and have qualities that make them great human being</b>– but many of them <b data-redactor-tag="b">have deep emotional insecurities and as a result very low self-esteem</b>.</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">9 points checklist - are you proud of who you are</b> - please answer these honestly - ask yourself how many of you</p><ul><li>1.Spend a lot of time finding and looking at your faults, weaknesses, flaws and imperfections</li> <li>2.Feel that you are not good enough</li> <li>3.Can identify the negatives in fraction of second to take your moods to a low but forget easily all that you are blessed with</li> <li>4.Even if you have accomplished 99% - your focus is mainly on the 1% not done</li> <li>5.Even if you have done your best and given our 100% at that time – you still are unable to rejoice – for some tiny insignificant unnoticeable reason</li> <li>6.Criticizing and berating yourselves for your mistakes and failures – most of the time</li> <li>7.Fell that you are inadequate</li> <li>8.Have difficulty in accepting praise and appreciation</li> <li>9.You feel unnerved and uncomfortable– if say – called on the stage for getting award</li></ul><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">Please understand that this is the total waste of the wonderful, the beautiful the lovable you</b>.</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">Instead of reflecting upon these baseless negativity</b>, we should be doing the exact opposite.</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">We should be focusing on the reasons to be proud of who we are and what we have accomplished in our lives so far.</b></p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">We need to</b> remember all of the <b data-redactor-tag="b">reasons why we are a great person who is worthy</b> of unconditional self-love, self-respect and self-pride.</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">63 reasons to be proud of yourself right now – as you are today</b></p><ul><li>1.List all the difficulties, obstacles, challenges, crisis, setbacks, problems – that you have overcome so far in life<br> list all those things </li> <li>2. In this list also highlight - where you have improved and where you have become better in handling more effectively - through the wisdom gained from all upsets that you have come through</li> <li>3.List all qualities and strengths that you have acquired and build into yourself to become a better person today than your past</li> <li>4.List all your successes and accomplishments that you have got</li> <li>5.List all your qualities, skills, talents [even your weaknesses] – which makes you unique</li> <li>6.List where you have created meaningful impact on people and society - the positive ones</li> <li>7.Go through your dreams on those - you are taking actions and moving towards them and are highly-passionate [which are larger than life – although you have not yet achieved them]</li> <li>8.Start treating yourself - like you treat your own kid and want your kids to be treated by others</li> <li>9.Give yourself permission to be proud</li> <li>10.Think about your struggles in life and acknowledge that you are resilient</li> <li>11.Forgive yourself – wherever you have hurt others and you have regrets as in these relationship – you can't make it up – as these people have gone forever</li> <li>12.But make sure that you will try your best to make-up for the hurt you have caused others – if it is possible. Then after you have done it you have a real big reason to feel proud of yourself</li> <li>13.Even if you have done some really questionable things in your life – as long as you don't continue to do that – no point in beating yourself over and over</li> <li>14.When our kids are at certain age – they think of us as role-model – identify those qualities and start living these qualities</li> <li>15.Exercise to keep your body healthy</li> <li>16.Be proud of people closest to you – also let them know that why you are proud of them giving specific reasons</li> <li>17.Be kind to others</li> <li>18.Appreciate and give genuine compliment to all your loved ones</li> <li>19.Recognizing our and our loved-one's achievements improves our self-image and adds to our feelings of self-worth.</li> <li>20.Take control of your own self-worth - stop looking and seeking validation from others</li> <li>21.Triumphs happens every day in our lives - small victories are more important to celebrate</li> <li>22.Many of our accomplishments might not be always visible to others – but we need to recognize them ourselves first</li> <li>23.And yes you can get drunk [with joy] and rejoice on your large accomplishments</li> <li>24.Spend time with yourself and meditating to know your true self and your strengths are.</li> <li>25.Fearlessly use your strengths to impact your life and that of others</li> <li>26.Be humble - especially when you have reasons to be proud about</li> <li>27.Be generous - with your appreciation and compliments - with others</li> <li>28.Be grateful - for all those things that you have - your parents, your kids, your job - just identify and keep adding to this list </li> <li>29.Never compare yourself with anyone in this world - everyone is unique and their situations and issues are different</li> <li>30.<b data-redactor-tag="b">Be proud of all these following things - about you</b></li> <li>I.A job that you love</li> <li>II.II.Your sense of style</li> <li>III.III.Your friends</li> <li>IV.IV.Your family</li> <li>V.V.Your values</li> <li>VI.VI.Your past – irrespective of whether it was good, bad or ugly - you did come out of it came through it</li> <li>VII.VII.Your ability to raise a voice against injustice and standing up for others</li> <li>VIII.VIII.Your body, your looks</li> <li>31.Have big large dreams – then divide them into small daily action-steps – focus your attention and celebration of achieving these small milestones only</li> <li>32.Work on what makes you excited</li> <li>33.Trust yourself by having faith in your ability to face, handle, deal-with and come out successfully</li> <li>34.Learn continuously to grow</li> <li>35.Take care of your body and personal appearance</li> <li>36.Educate yourself. Read books, enroll in a class, teach – these will eventually become reasons to achieve more and feel proud of yourself</li> <li>37.Avoid and get rid of negative, toxic and critical people</li> <li>38.Surround yourself those who love and care for you</li> <li>39.Learn to enjoy and feel happy in the happiness and success of others</li> <li>40.Stop giving excuse and blaming - and whenever you catch yourself doing it – just course-correct</li> <li>41.Seek different and opposing perspectives to expand your wisdom</li> <li>42.Experiment newer ways of doing things</li> <li>43.Takes risks towards taking actions for making your dreams real</li> <li>44.Take risks to be ridiculed at – by indulging in your passions</li> <li>45.Express yourself fearlessly – by being assertive</li> <li>46.Accept yourself – as you are – with your flaws and strengths</li> <li>47.Appreciate and give credit to others</li> <li>48.Be proud of who you are and without being concerned about how others see you or what they think of you</li> <li>49.Work on yourself to make you more valuable to others</li> <li>50.Ask yourself - why do you care what others think about you, why does it matter to you and why others get such an powerful-negative influence in how you live your life and how you value yourself - why is their opinion more important than yours?</li> <li>51.Continuously make yourself better by raising the bar [while enjoying] to create a better benchmark of excellence for yourself</li> <li>52.Create the ability to laugh at yourself – while maintaining your self-dignity and self-respect</li> <li>53.Live your life being genuinely, authentically, real you - always</li> <li>54.Set goals those are within your area of control – never set goals based on factors you can't control</li> <li>55.Compete with yourself - stop getting into competition where nothing exists</li> <li>56.Learn from the best - identify the masters whose skills makes you in awe of them</li> <li>57.Practice, practice, practice – excel in everything that you do – so don't take too many projects – only focus on few</li> <li>58.Never on yourself - create hope by taking actions</li> <li>59.Be proud of the person you are becoming - consciously try to make yourself better every day than your yesterday</li> <li>60.Never be afraid to go after what you want in life just because you think you may fail</li> <li>61.Don't let troubles get you down -find a reason to go forward in life - by finding solutions if they are important OR ignoring them if they are minor irritants</li> <li>62.Stop looking for love in all the wrong places - go for people who accept and love for who you are AND not because of what you have</li> <li>63.Be proud of who you are and never let yourself feel ashamed by - how someone else sees you</li></ul><div><br></div><p> #Howtobeproudofyourself, #Createreasonstofeelselfpride, #beproudofwhoyouare, #whenyouacceptyourselfyourselfprideincreases, #increasingyourselfworth, #increasingyourselfesteem, #beatyourinsecurities, #areyouproudofyourself, #acceptyourselfwithallyourweaknessesflaws, #reasonsforlackofselfpride, #recognizeyourvalueandworth, #areyouproudofwhoyouare, #improveyourselftomakeyoumorevaluabletoothers, #youareuniqueandvaluable, #identifyandcelebrateyouruniqueness, #beproudofwhatvaluesyouhaveaddedtoothers, #listallyouraccomplishmentsoflifetherearemany, #listhowyouhavehelpedothers, #identifywhatllchallengesyouhaveovercome, #feelgoodbyrecallingwhatinnerbattlesyouhavewon</p>