Doing The Right Thing / Tough Self Love
Being compassionate towards yourself doesn’t mean that you take the easy road. In fact, there’s times when compassion can be considered tough love.
If we take the easy choice, we may avoid temporary discomfort, and we’ll replace it with long term resentment or dissatisfaction.
To build ourselves up, we ask ourselves what would be the right thing, what has the best long term payoff for everyone, and what would I be proud of doing today?
This, coupled with an understanding that it may be difficult or uncomfortable in the moment, and encouraging ourselves like we would our best friend or our child, is what leads to self satisfaction and a happy, calm mind.
Day by day, by committing to repeated small acts that you deem worthy and important, AND following through with them, we become someone we’re proud of being.
