Self reassurance. When you’re down or feel like you’re just stuck and not going anywhere in life, you always have to reassure yourself. Yeah, it's great to have people tell you that things will be okay and that your time will come, but ultimately it's gotta come from you.

As we get older, and when we are much older, we always are going to have times of doubt with regardless of what we do. Maybe you don't think you did well on an exam, or you think you're not going to get a certain job, the list goes on. However, in those times, you have to reassure yourself that you are capable of doing doing great things! We let ourselves down so much. I know from personal experience that sometimes I can be a little negative because I feel like if I'm positive or confident about something that I might jinx it. I am someone who needs to sometimes... or most of the time (come to think of it), reassure myself that I did fine and that I am fine.

This all comes to play with what I talked about last week, about self comparison and not feeling confident with your own life. You have to assure yourself that wherever and whatever you're doing right now is going to pay off in the end and make you happy. At the end of the day, they only person who really truly needs your acceptance and approval is yourself. Not to say you need to disregard everyone else, but just be confident with what you’re doing. We always seek assurance from other people because as humans we do care a lot about what those people think, not realizing that it slows us down from living our own life. The moment we start accepting ourselves and our own lives and reassuring ourselves, is when we can truly live and be our purest form of happy because every decision that is made is something we care about.