Self-respect is the most important thing that one can have. No one can or will respect you more than you respect yourself first. When you respect yourself, you stand for something. And if you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything. If you have self-respect, falling for anything will never happen to you.  Self-respect is something that once you have, you will never lose it ever again.

If you are a person with no respect for yourself then read this carefully. Gaining self-respect takes work. It’s takes looking inside your sprit to find it. Finding yourself is not a straight and narrow path, it’s a forest. You will have to revisit some things that you would’ve never wanted to see again.

The thing you must defeat first is your fears. Defeat the fears and failures that you’ve had in your past. Know that it happened, acknowledge the fact that it happened, accept it and move on. Don’t hold on to what’s been hurting you for years. Did you know that eighty percent of the world has gone through the same things you have? Things like, a broken home, abuse, a loved one passing, or getting talked bad about. Nowadays, it’s more like so what? The question is what are you going to about your future? Get rid of the old problems and move on to something new instead.

Stop worrying about what other people think of you. This is the leading cause of how people don’t gain their self-respect. The whole goal is to not fit in; the goal is to stand out. Standing out and doing something that no one has ever done is what makes one legendary. People fear what they don’t understand. Therefore, there will always be haters and naysayers. They are like crabs in a barrel. A crab pulls another crab down that’s trying to get out of the barrel. In other words, a crab doesn’t want to see another crab make it. So don’t worry about them and just do you. That goes the other way around as well. Don’t worry about what they are doing better than you, just do your best and everything will be just as fine. The last thing you want to worry about is another person winning and you envy what they are doing. It’s a real downer if you think like that. Just stay focused on what you are doing. Remember, what they eat don’t make you shoot a deuce. So why worry?

You can find yourself in many ways. But this is the most important key,

Self-respect comes in the form of a need, not in the form of a want.  

You might not understand that statement but once the respect for yourself comes, you will see the meaning behind the words. And once you got it, you got it. You will be on your path to greatness and nothing or no one will stop you. You are powerful beyond measure.