LIFE: 14 Ways to Love Yourself More

Fortunately, this is not a guide on how to enhance the vanity we incorporate into our lives everyday. These 14 Ways to Love Yourself More are quick tips on methods, approaches, and ideas on caring for yourself more and empowering yourself more. Many of the tips are simple reminders on how to make the most of our day, explore them below:

1. Find Someone or Something That Inspires You: Finding someone’s work ethic or lifestyle to motivate you to live better is always beneficial in empowering your life for the better.
2. Find Someone or Something to Inspire: Depositing your knowledge or skills into another “someone” or “something,” honestly gives you an energy that fuels your purpose and calling in life.
3. Invest in your local community with your time or talent: In previous years, speaking at the elementary school I attended truly empowered me to continue striving for the best. Plant seeds in the communities that played a part in your growth.
4. Dare Yourself to Do Something Grayt: Challenge yourself to do something that you’ve never done before. You may end up hating what you challenged yourself to do or you may love what you challenged yourself to do, but the empowerment is in the pursuit.
5. Try to Improve a Skill Each Week: Currently living in Buenos Aires, I’m going to start challenging myself to contribute more to the conversation during dinner (which is in Spanish). There’s power in identifying a particular skill and growing with intent!
6. Try a New Food or Cuisine: I’ve traveled the world and tried many different authentic foods, there’s so much joy in stumbling on a particular new food or cuisine.
7. Improve the Consistency of Your Nutrient Intake: This may be a personal way to love myself more, but there are benefits in improving the consistency in the nutrients we take over a period of time.
8. Increase Your Fruit & Vegetable Intake: If your are trying to escape the depths of hell’s bakery (as I am), make an intent to increase your fruit & vegetable intake (currently doing so by eating more apples & more salads)
9. Walk & Enjoy More: When you walk more, you come across things that you would normally zoom by if you were driving. Take in new sights or view new sights with a new perspective–an enriching experience.
10. Listen to the Soundtrack of Your City: Each city has a way of communicating to you through the voices of the people, the way the trees shade the streets, the way the cars drive by, strive to listen to the way a city speaks–such absorption is a further enriching experience.
11. Seek Productive Methods in Expressing Your Emotions: Whether its through journaling, painting, singing, dancing, or creating, seek productive methods to materialize the seeds of emotions that are inside of you, so they may grow.
12. Find a New Scent to Wear (Even if its just for a day): Excite your senses, excite those around you with a new scent. Fragrances are a great way to charge the trajectory of your day.
13. Find a New Scent for your Room: Find a new scent that sets the environment of your room, switch it up and keep your senses excited (I, personally, use Glade Scents, as they are easy and convenient)
14. Never Forget the Power, Grace, & Love in Jesus Christ: Personally, for me, the foundation of the love I have for myself and others is the love Jesus Christ has for me and others. If you’re seeking a starting point, I do recommend this route.