As the year quickly draws to a close, let me encourage you to give some thought to this issue of self-respect. Do you appear to the world, and more importantly to yourself as someone who truly values their life, their health, their possessions?
Feel like making a statement? Head over to your closet and get rid of one low self-esteem outfit. It could be an old ratty thing that really needs to go. Or how about that brand new shirt, pair of shoes, pair of pants that you have never worn but refuse to get rid of because it was such a great deal? Or the (whatever) that you always hate wearing (wrong color, slightly uncomfortable, makes you feel like a dork) but that you continue to force on yourself because it's still in good condition.
What you wear affects how you carry yourself. And it affects how people respond to you.
We are very affected by the energy of things around us, and clothing particularly. What is in your closet that simply isn't you? Give it to someone who can use it, and if it isn't good enough to pass on, get it gone.
What are you not wearing because it has missed a button for three years or needs ironing? Just handle this stuff. In coaching speak, we call these tolerations.
Handle them.
This includes socks with holes in them, underwear that your mother would be ashamed to hear you were wearing if you get into a car accident, and that single earring that you haven't found the mate for in the last seven years.
Bye bye. You can't come with me into my new year. You are not who I am any more.
Bonus Points: There is a concept called "buff" that I learned about years ago in coach training. Think of it as those things that are "so you". Ideally, you want to make your whole life "buff".
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