Life is not always simple right?

When challenges come your way, you’ll want to follow this tip- I promise, it can carry you through A LOT!

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Do you feel like it’s highly important to be kind and compassionate? Helping people, forgiving others if they’ve hurt your feelings or someone else’s feelings.

Forgiving and being kind is a theme in your life.

One of your family members is rude to you- you forgive, remembering they probably had a bad day or perhaps you chalk it up to their family history, they had a less then positive upbringing. Whatever the case may be, you forgive.

Sometimes you forgive easily, while other times you have to dig a bit deeper to find some shred of forgiveness.

But, you eventually forgive.

You see the love and light that’s in this person. And you tend to fairly easily see the love and light in most people.

Here’s the clincher, sometimes you’re so quick to try to forgive that you neglect to stand up for you. To speak up for what you feel or for what you need.

In the case of someone being disrespectful to you- (imagine, this could be a friend, your in-laws, your kids…) They do something that arouses the feelings of “Hey wait a minute, that was disrespectful”, you spend time feeling sad or upset and then, you let go of being upset and move on.

Did you speak up to this person? Did you let them know how you feel? Did you tell them what they did crossed a line for you? That they were being disrespectful toward you and it isn’t ok.

If not, you’re tolerating too much!

How do I know? Been there done that!

My kids, for quite sometime would press the disrespect button.

They might demand I do something for them or blame me for something that went wrong.

All this began to change when I started expecting respect from everyone.

And for those who objected to being respectful toward me, I then began to blatantly ask for it. One might say I started to demand it!

I finally realized, I had been tolerating too much.

I was allowing my kids, and other family members to take me for granted.

You know what else helped to change this scenario?

I began not only to expect and demand respect, but, I began to respect MYSELF more.

When I was tolerating too much, I wasn’t respecting myself.

I began to see that people couldn’t respect me when I wasn’t respecting myself.

So, as I began to treat myself with more respect, those around me began to do likewise.

Now, I won’t kid you, I still need to remind my kids to be respectful at times, but, it’s second nature now to require respect and my kids know in an instant they’ve crossed a line.

And that’s the difference, I now won’t let others disrespect me. It’s not a choice.

I’ve learned I can be compassionate and forgiving, but with some nice boundaries around how much I tolerate!

How about you? Are you ready to respect yourself even more?

I hope so, you deserve it! =)

Respecting yourself more starts with taking small action steps to do things that help YOU to feel good…

What exactly are these action steps?

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Ever feel stuck and want to shake that feeling of frustration and stress?

Yep. I’ve been there myself!

Check out this week’s tip to learn what I do to help myself and how you can do likewise!

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