Steemit Engagement Challenge S3-W2 I Love Myself to the Moon and Back by @munyuy

Greetings everyone, hope we are carrying on with life . I am grateful to @wase1234 for inviting me to be part of the season 3 week 2 of the engagement challenge in the Steam for better Life community.This really feels like a good topic for me to participate in as it resonates with my recent and current reality. Permit me share with you how interesting this topic is, to me.

What are the doubts you have.?

Personal Doubts

Doubt is when we do not believe in our ability to overcome ,to conquer or success.
One of my greatest and most challenging doubts has always been that I can neither do enough no can i do it well. This has made me to miss out on a lot of opportunities because I doubted myself and did not give it a try. Once I nurse the fear of uncertainty within me , it manifest in the physical as I will not be able to attempt the task again out of fear of not doing it right. There are several instances where I have had doubt's that I could not undertake a certain activity well and I would sometimes give up on the way.

How I doubted my commitment towards steemit.

Let me share a particular example that relates to one of my greatest moments of doubt. Few months after I joined the steemit community, I started feeling like I was not doing well in the community and that it was not my place. My number of posts started to drop. At another point I had more life challenges that I finally gave up posting on steemit. I decided to step back and solve other problems that I had. Even at this point I still doubted my ability to be able to solve those problems. I had to nurture confidence to overcome.

My motivation in regaining self confidence

When I had finally succeeded with the life challenges that were pulling me down I told myself that "if I can go through all of those challenges and make it then if I come back to the steemit community, then I can continue creating content and posting". This does not mean that my confidence was completely restored. No , I reached out to a few friends and ask them how the community was fairing. Both of them encouraged me to come back and start posting. I started but because I still doubted my commitment, I stopped at some point. I had to speak confidence to myself and I said irrespective of whatever is happening around me I will start posting and stay committed to the community this was just 3 days ago and I must say that I am gradually regaining my confidence on getting out of the realm of doubt.

This contest is a wonderful boaster to me and each time I feel lagging I will remember this contest and bounce back to the community.

What makes you love yourself ?

Sometimes we are tempted to take the definition of other people about who we are, which can sometimes make us not to love ourselves the most. It may be important to know what other people think about you but it is most important to know what you think about yourself. Loving yourself more is the best thing you can ever do to yourself. The truth is no one can love yourself more than you do yourself. What makes me love myself the most is the fact that, I accept myself as I am and I never give up even if it is the last option I have to choose from. For this reason when I look at myself and listen to what other think or say about me, I simply tell myself that "I do not need their validation of who I am because I love myself as I am and if I am given the opportunity to choose, I will still choose myself even in the next life because I love myself most". One very beautiful thing about my physicalself which I cannot trade for any other thing is my beautiful gap teeths.They make my smile awesome and wether another likes it or not I simply just love it and smile along.

What must you do to prioritize your happiness?

To be completely happy in life, live your life to the full. do not wait for validation from anyone on whatever you are doing except it is an exam that you have been tested on. It all depends on you to love yourself more than anyone and anything in this world. Seek for happiness from within because no one from without can make you more happy than you can make yourself, so prioritize your happy moments and reduce pain. Strive to stay positive in most occasions and smile always without doubting your capabilities. Your inner self , reveals your beauty which is a source of your happiness, never take your happiness for granted.

I am @munyuy and I love myself to the moon and back. I will like to invite @shance-light ,@tangwe-rene and @nforyembe to participate in this wonderful contest.