Be Ridiculously Good at Life

The meaning of beauty and the usage of beauty has been muddled with other desirable character traits. Often, people are so used to calling each other "beautiful" that we feel entitled to being seen as beautiful, and that we are being treated wrongly or perceived wrongly when other can not see our own brand of personal beauty. In writing this article, I would like to help you free yourself from the constraints of beauty and the prevalence it has taken over our modern culture. Freeing yourself from the illusory entitlement to beauty is a vital step. Not Everyone Is Beautiful Physical beauty can be measured. The ancient Greeks found phi, the golden ratio to beauty (which I highly recommend you read about... here .) We have the BMI, the waist to hip ratio, the lines of symmetry, the angles of one's facial features, the condition of one's skin. These features all provide us with information- from a biological standpoint, beauty is a highly coveted trait which means that th...

Self respect is essential to true self love. In order to fully love and care for yourself, you must become aware of your boundaries and values and you must commit to them and thus commit to yourself. Self respect is about preserving your values and acting in a way that promotes self growth whilst fulfilling certain standards regarding how you want to be treated. What are your values? In order to define your personal boundaries, you must look within and gain insight through introspecting and honesty. How do you think you deserve to be treated? How do you think you should treat yourself? Do you let people walk all over you, or do you walk all over other people? Do you not trust other people, do you act in an untrustworthy manner? In order to understand how you would truly like to be treated, you must also consider how you treat others. There is no separation between the two when true self respect and self love is reached. What you value, you must exercise. If you do not exercise your val...