Are we our own worst enemies?

If you agree with the following comments, then you probably know what I'm talking about.

• Nobody is as tough on me as I am on myself.
• No-one expects as much of me as I do of myself. 
• Nobody beats me up as emotionally as I beat myself up.

It's a hard lesson to learn that I don't have to do it all and be it all. I can only do what I can do. It's about choosing the important things and knowing that the rest can wait, in fact the other things probably weren't that important in the first place.

I need to learn to be my own best friend.

• To listen to what my heart and body are telling me.  
• To cheer myself on and give myself a pat on the back occasionally. 
• To take care of myself and know that I've done my best, no matter what the results are. 
• To take the time just to be in the moment and enjoy the simple fact of being alive.

I'm slowly learning to be my own best friend and give myself the same care and consideration that I give my friends - what about you, do you show yourself the same courtesies that you do your friends?

'We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.' ~ Roderick Thorp

Note: I always search for a quote and an image after I write a post which ties in with what I have written - how's this for a quote though, I could have written it myself.

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