Practicing self-love on a daily basis isn’t always easy. Between busy schedules, professional and personal obligations, and bad mental health habits, such as self-sabotaging internal dialogues, focusing on your own strengths and beauty can often feel like an uphill battle. Fortunately, there are practical steps you can take every day to make self-love and positive affirmations a regular part of your daily routine. Check out these 7 inspirational self-love quotes and 7 affirmations to help you practice and maintain healthy personal boundaries every day of the week to transform your life for the better.
The Benefits of Prioritizing Self Love Every Day
We all want to love ourselves, but for many people, doing so is easier said than done. Loving yourself for who you are isn’t just a sweet sentiment; it has real benefits that can make your life increasingly more pleasant, including:
- Making normal activities easier: When you love yourself, there’s no need to question everything you do or wonder if you said or did the right thing in a particular situation. You can be confident in who you are and how you conduct yourself with others by setting healthy boundaries.
- Having fewer self-sabotaging inner dialogues: By accepting and appreciating what you have to offer, you can stop wasting time trying to receive praise and affirmation from others. Self-love is the secret to achieving a healthy sense of self-esteem, so loving yourself is a great way to kill that negative little voice that pops up in your head at the most inopportune moments of your day.
- Allowing you to truly be happy: How can you be happy with your life or others if you aren’t happy with yourself? When you learn to love yourself, you won’t feel so bogged down by others’ opinions or behavior. Instead, you can achieve inner peace and contentment regardless of what’s going on around you.
By committing to making self-love a part of your normal daily routine along with drawing healthy personal boundaries with others, you’re sure to feel healthier and happier. Now, let’s get started.
Day 1
“Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.” – Fred Rogers
Today’s Affirmation: Who do you say that you are? What thoughts do you entertain about yourself when you are alone? Instead of internalizing what others tell you about yourself, try focusing on being yourself and appreciating the qualities that make you distinctly yourself. For the folks whose negative words seem to be stuck on a loop in your head, it may be time to appropriately distance yourself from them in order to redirect your mind to healthier self-affirmations.
Day 2
“You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anyone.” – Maya Angelou
Today’s Affirmation: How often do you feel motivated to do something in order to prove something to another person? Whether you’re striving to live up to the standards of someone you admire or are competing with an enemy, it’s important to remember that you don’t have to accomplish anything specific to be worthy of love and respect. Just being yourself makes you likable.
Day 3
“Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it. You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won’t accept.” – Anna Taylor
Today’s Affirmation: Self-love can take on many different shapes and forms. Oftentimes, setting healthy boundaries with others is the best way to protect our own personal well-being. Setting emotional boundaries isn’t always easy, especially with people we are close to, but it’s worth the effort to live a healthy, balanced life.
Day 4
“You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right here.” – Venus Williams
Today’s Affirmation: You may not always feel particularly special, but you are. You have extraordinary qualities to offer the world, even if they don’t always seem significant to you. Believing in yourself is half the battle to reaching your goals. Give yourself permission to be confident in who you are and what you have to offer! And if others try to diminish your unique qualities, be bold enough to affirm yourself by setting boundaries.
Day 5
“Beauty begins the moment you decided to be yourself.” – Coco Chanel
Today’s Affirmation: True beauty is as much an internal characteristic as it is a physical one. Whether you look like a movie star or wish you could change something about your appearance, embracing who you are and living an authentic life is the best way to instantly become more attractive to everyone you encounter, including yourself.
Day 6
“You can do hard things without being hard on yourself.” – Mel Robbins
Today’s Affirmation: Whether you realize it or not, you can overcome challenges, reach new goals, and persevere in the face of adversity, including setting healthy boundaries when necessary. How, you ask? By believing that you can. Keeping a positive attitude, continuing to work hard, and recognizing your strengths is a sure fire way to accomplish whatever you set your mind to.
Day 7
“Just being born makes you worthy enough to be here.” – Oprah Winfrey
Today’s Affirmation: While the whole world may seem to be striving to change the way you look, think, or behave, remember, you are perfect and lovable exactly as you are. Accepting this reality is the best way to live full of freedom, meaning, and peace.
Imperfect Ink Can Help You Practice Self-Love
If you struggle with practicing self-love on a consistent basis and setting personal boundaries, you are not alone.
While recognizing and embracing what makes you worthy of love isn’t always easy, the satisfaction and peace that comes from being yourself and protecting your emotional wellbeing are worth the effort. If you’re looking for practical ways to affirm yourself on a daily basis, Imperfect Ink can help. Visit us online to read the full boundaries guide and learn more about how to set healthy boundaries that can transform the way you view yourself and others today.
