Live your Truth And Grow your Self-Worth

Living a happy life is everyone’s goal. Who doesn’t want to feel good about themselves? And yet so many of us live a life of self-doubt, feeling undeserving or incapable, or wishing we were walking another path.

However, living a happy life, being a happy person, is a matter of how you perceive yourself and your place in the world. You can “think yourself happy” by taking action, being honest about yourself, your patterns of thinking, and being open to your capacity to change. Self-knowledge is the key to living a happy life. And that means living your truth, not other people’s truth, or what society tells you is your truth.

Socrates famously said that the unexamined life is not worth living. An ongoing process of self-analysis and self-examination leading to greater understanding and self-knowledge is also the basis for most of the world’s religions and belief systems for a good reason.

If you don’t know who you are, you're not your true self in the world. If this is the case, you’re living a passive life, reacting to whatever comes along instead of taking control.

Living unconsciously like this is living half asleep, and if you’re half asleep, you can’t be your best you.

Living an authentic life does not mean going off the grid. It does mean a daily practice of being honest about how you’re feeling and why, and reminding yourself that you are in control of how you feel.

It means being clear about what your values and beliefs are – what “rules” you live your life by. Are your values yours, or have you absorbed them from other people in your life? Do they still fit with the life you want to lead?

Five steps to living a more authentic life

1. Be clear about how you want your life to be right now and where you want to go. Understand and live by your values and beliefs.

2. Be aware of yourself and how you react and interact with other people, situations, events, the world.

3. Set and maintain conscious boundaries. Be clear in your mind and be at peace with what you can and can’t control.

4. Be okay with imperfection in yourself and others. Be objective about your weaknesses so that you can improve upon them without letting them get you down.

5. Be kind and forgiving to yourself and others.

Living your truth means taking responsibility for your life and building a deep self-knowledge that will ultimately lead to contentment and happiness.

6 Strategies to Challenge Your Inner Critic’s Voice

It’s time you cultivated an attitude.

Look, life can be hard sometimes. The last thing you need is your Inner Critic taking the wheel, getting on your case about every last little thing you’re trying to do.

Why are you listening to someone who doesn’t have your best interest at heart? No, it’s time to challenge your Inner Critic and silence their voice once and for all.

How? Try these tried and true strategies:

Start Noticing
Inner Critics like to whisper, never to speak out loud. The last thing they want is to be noticed in their nefarious schemes.

By paying attention to what’s going on in your head, you draw their lies out into the light where they cannot stand.

Give it a Nickname
Whenever the Inner Critic speaks up, give it a silly name. Think to yourself things like “Hey, it’s Moldyvort, back again to cause trouble.”

By making fun of this voice, it’s a whole lot harder to take seriously.

What about a Voice?
Do you hear some pretty negative things? Try saying them out loud. By giving voice to these thoughts, you’ll hear just how ridiculous they sound.

Take a Negativity Break
Tell your Inner Critic they can only come out to play at a particular time each day. During that time, take a break and tell the Inner Critic to do their worst.

Be sure to set a timer for the space allotted, so you don’t give more time to the negativity than necessary. Sit back and let it speak its piece. The funny thing?

Most of the time, you won’t even remember what it was the Critic had to say by the time your negativity break rolls around. Even if you do, when the timer goes off, remind yourself you’re done and walk away.

Question Everything
Is there any truth to what your Inner Critic is saying? Examine the statements. Feel free to argue back.

Point out the flaws in the reasoning and back it up with examples of times when you’ve proven those things aren’t true.

Replace the Words
Finally, drop the negative words entirely and rewrite the script to turn each negative into a positive.

For example, saying, “I’m terrible at writing reports” can become “I did a great job on the last report I wrote. I bet this one will be fine too.”

Remember, silencing an Inner Critic is going to take time and energy. This kind of voice doesn’t just shut up because you told them to go away once.

No, you’re going to have to do the work, using these strategies until you’re finally free of the nasty little voice.

Once you’ve got it, though? Your world will change enormously in some pretty great ways. After all, without your critic to hold you back, you’re primed for success in a huge way.

Related reading: How to build Self Confidence

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