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Old Jul 24, 2011, 09:38 PM
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Trusting one's self has a lot to do with the willingness to put the effort into reaching out and experiencing life, learning, and expressing ourselves freely without allowing others to injure our self esteem. We have to be willing to accept that we are not going to make all the right decisions as in life there is no real certainty.

Trusting ourselves means that we have decided to set our own boundaries and we are going to make sure that those boundaries are not crossed by others. And in setting our own boundaries, if they are broken by others we will have trust in ourselves to walk away just as strong as we were before the boundary was crossed. We must trust that our boundaries are to protect ourselves and are reasonable and protects our individuality and self esteem and willingness to express ourselves.

Trusting ourselves means that we are going to have the strength to say no to others that try to push us into doing something we know is not right for us. And we must trust that is we feel in our gut that something is not right, a person, a situation, a relationship and we will walk away without shame.

Trusting ourselves means that we will remain open to growth in life and be willing express ourselves. We will accept that not everyone is going to like us or respect us but we must remain steadfast in our will to push forward in our hopes and dreams inspite of the actions of others, we will remain strong.

Trusting ourselves means that we have made a conscious decision to be our own caretaker and do our best to avoid partaking in things that are not healthy for us. Wether it means not chosing to hang with a group of negetive people or not participating in negetive activities just because others choose to do so. And if that means we stand alone, than so be it, because we have the right to choose our own path in life.

Trusting ourselves is being willing to accept that others that come across our path may try to lie to us, cheat us, steal from us and even disrespect us, but we can remain positive within ourselves in spite of others.

And Trusting ourselves will mean that we will remain open to new ideas and information that will help us on our path. And we are strong and understand that we may have struggles that others will not understand, but if we search within to understand our issues ourselves we can over come them and that we are never going to be perfect but the point is to be perfectly fine and do our best to fulfill our goals and give ourselves every chance to do so. I means that we shall never say to ourselves "I cant" instead we will continue to say "I shall try".

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