Are You a Perfectionist? Here’s Why You Need to Overcome Your Perfectionism.
Why perfection is bad? Are you tired of being perfect? Is perfectionism causing you to procrastinate and feel anxious? “My make out came off, but it left me with new memories. My Ugly Friend Festival 2.” – Ha Sang Wook. Recently, a popular Korean...
How to Accept Yourself: 8 Ways to Love the Way You Are
Is there anything that you don’t like about yourself? Have you dreamed of being someone else other than yourself? If you find it hard to accept yourself, you are not alone. Even the most successful and beautiful have rejected themselves at some point in their...
How to Free Yourself from Negative Self-Talk
Have you ever wondered how your negative self-talk sounds like in person? If your friends talk to you like your negative self-talk does, would you still be friends with them? Recently, I saw Dove’s video about the inner critic and I love it. It shows us what our...
How to Make Yourself Feel Better with These Words
Negative self-talk is a habit. It hurts our self-esteem. We developed most of our negative beliefs when we were young. And since we don’t challenge them, beating ourselves up becomes natural and automatic over time. But like any other habit, negative self-talk...
Why Do You Enjoy Beating Yourself Up?
Have you ever caught yourself beating yourself up? What can’t we stop it? I was giving tuition to one of my students. When he was doing some assignments, I noticed he would scold himself out loud whenever he made a mistake. He probably didn’t even realize...
An Open Letter to My Inner Critic
For the second month of my 2016 Self-Love Project, I’m focusing on “Overcoming Negative Self-Talk”. To start things off, here’s an open letter to silence the inner critic – the person who’s responsible for all my negative self-talk....
7 Important Things You Need to Know About Yourself
I have a friend who I know for more than 10 years. One day, he came up to my friend and me, and told us he had a big discovery about himself – he is an extrovert. My friend and I looked at each other puzzled and said, “You mean you don’t know that...
My Theme for Year 2016 is Self-Love
Last year, I had 21 goals. This year, I had 7 goals. For the coming year, I’m just going to summarize all my goals in one word – self-love. I was inspired by Gretchen Rubin’s recent blog post on New Year’s resolutions. After reading her...
I Have Failed Miserably
I have to tell you the truth. Lately, I had not been doing well. Ever since I came back from Bali, my world had been turned upside down. I was excited to help an animation studio founder in his business, but when I came back, it didn’t turn out the way I...Struggling with Your Physical Appearance or Illness?
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