You cannot criticize yourself to success.
Louise Hay once said, remember, you've been criticizing soft for years and it hasn't worked. How about try approving of yourself and see what happens.
Oftentimes we criticize ourselves and hope it will make us better or fix our lives or solve our problems.
But in fact that just doesn't work. That approach will not work.
What if instead we try approving of ourselves?
What if we tried lifting ourselves up?
In the book, Attachments, author Rainbow Rowell, offers a simple piece of advice to help us do more of what Louise Hay's suggests to help us approval of ourselves more.
Maybe you practice some self-kindness.
I'm just trying to figure out what's wrong with me, says one character in the book.
And the other responds... well stop. I told you, figure out what's right with you.
So today. Let's make the intention to stop criticizing ourselves.
And instead to put our focus on figuring out everything that is right with us.
How do you think that would feel?
How do you think that would transform your day?
What would be different if you started to point out all the things that you were doing well, all the things that you're proud of?
So how about this let's follow Louise Hayes and Rainbow Powell's advice.
Let's see what happens when we stop doing what isn't working and try this new approach instead.
Give it a try.
You got absolutely nothing to lose.