Day 12 – Gratitude Challenge – Say Thank you and Write a love letter to yourself
Welcome to Day 12 of the Gratitude Challenge. Today we will focus on ourselves, say thank you, and write a letter to ourselves. If you want to keep taking care of others, you must focus on yourself first. While you express gratitude to others, why not express gratitude to yourself too? Never shy away from showing yourself the love you deserve.
People often find it unimportant to sit and appreciate how far they have come and never have time to take themselves out to a beautiful place and relax for a bit while watching the sunset. We often take everything for granted. Time is passing like a bullet train. The earlier you start loving yourself, the earlier you will free yourself from believing that others need to do something every day to keep you happy. You will be amazed to feel that you are amazing and competent to keep yourself happy.
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I shall put down a love letter that I feel I want to write myself. Feel free to take your pen and notepad and write down something for yourself too. You will not believe me until you do this but once you write a love letter to yourself and read it out, you will feel happy from within.
I have also written an article on how to write a love letter to others.
You can take what you can use to write a love letter to yourself. I have also made a handmade card. You can try making it for yourself and keep it forever as a reminder that you are very important to yourself and you are very grateful and blessed. Be grateful for being the way you are and carving out a life or trying to create a better life for yourself.
Expressing gratitude to self helps to overcome emotional challenges and maintain good mental health. When you are focusing on the good things in your life, you shift your focus on things that make you happier and make you feel abundant rather than looking at the missing tile from your life each day. This keeps your mental health in better shape. Just as you need to exercise to keep your body in shape, you need to do activities that keep your mind in good shape too.
Expressing gratitude goes a long way in keeping you mentally healthy in your life. Gratitude journaling feels like a simple task but if you are consistent, it will have a very big impact on your overall thoughts and life. When you change your thoughts, life changes too.
Benefits to express gratitude to self (gratitude challenge)
- Helps you love yourself as you are
Have you ever wondered why many of us are struggling daily to live up to others’ ideas of an ideal person or personality? Because they do not love the person they are and always think others know better. You need to love yourself even when nobody does. You do not change yourself because others like you that way, you change because you like it and change only when you see a problem. You love yourself as you are. Nobody is perfect so pleasing the entire world is a very difficult task. Leave it.
- Self-care leads to happiness
If you take care of yourself then only you lead a happy life. If you truly love yourself, self-care is a priority, not an option. Expressing gratitude to self is highly recommended if you want to feel good about yourself. If you do not spend time with yourself, you will never get to know who you are.
- Resilient and Brave
When you are aware of your strengths and yourself, you know how to face the challenges and get back on track after a setback. You know yourself so that you can live this life bravely and not be scared to make your own choices in life. Even when the choices go wrong, you know it is not a failure but a lesson to move ahead. Expressing gratitude to self will help you give hope when needed and make you strong enough to deal with decisions and consequences.
Below is an article that might be helpful on why to practice gratitude.
Hope you like the article and take action. It is very important to take action. Think about your current state and check if you are expressing gratitude to yourself or not.
