Self improvement options are always out there, waiting for you, sucking you in and terminating you. Beating you down, when you don’t feel like you measure up. I kept running into the same one, for the longest time, I couldn’t get past it. I’ve always been really big on self improvement, never quite seeing myself as ‘good enough’ until I realized that I’m the ‘me’ God created and God doesn’t make mistakes.

It took a good friend of mine slapping me upside the head (virtually) to capture the reality of my error in thinking. I needed to hear someone else say it, I guess. I’d been saying it myself for a long time, but when she said it, I finally HEARD it.

As a child I was always ‘bigger than the other kids’ and everyone reminded me of that. I was the oldest of a group of cousins. I was taller than most of my classmates until after we started high school. Even then, I was in the tallest segment of the class. I outweighed many of them too. Diets didn’t seem to work well and exercise wasn’t my friend, I was a klutz. I grew up feeling less than perfect. That carried over into my adult life.

After two failed marriages, because I married abusive husbands, I even took responsibility for those failures… for the longest time. It wasn’t until I started realizing how much I really had going for me that I began to drop the ‘failures’ off the side and started considering how RIGHT I was as a person.

Good at training others and teaching them to promote and market themselves -

I know what it takes to be a leader and I can help almost anyone achieve their professional goals. I understand the process required to make a business online a success. I can train others to accomplish their goals of marketing online.

Good at accomplishing the duties required to achieve -

I’m good at setting my own goals and achieving them. I understand what is required to set a goal and to achieve that goal. I know how to help others set and achieve goals. I know how to redirect people toward their goals and help them focus on what they need to do.

Good at supporting and encouraging others in their accomplishments -

I know how to motivate and encourage people who have set goals in ways that help them to focus on what they want and achieve their goals. I’ve learned how to support others in their efforts. I know the process of developing new goals and how to work those goals into the process of accomplishing overall goals.

Learning to be bold and beautiful, knowing my personal worth and value took some time, but it was worth the effort. It helps to have that knowledge and an understanding of where it comes from, when I’m helping others to know their personal worth and value. The process of helping others to accomplish their goals comes from having the experience of accomplishing goals yourself.