Do you Have Confidence in Yourself?

“Fall in love with your very essence, your every thought, move and action.”-Honoree Corder

When Momma's happy, everybody's happy! I understand completely if you have resistance around relationships because you have children. Keep in mind that your children want you to be happy, and when you're happy, your children are happy, too!

I believe the most attractive quality in any person is self-confidence with second being authenticity. Part of being self-confident and authentic is knowing and loving yourself fully, unabashedly, and unapologetically. Finding a new love relationship begins with feeling great about yourself- literally falling in love with you!

You are most attractive to others when you are most attractive to yourself. When you can look in the mirror and say, 'Damn, I look good today! You will walk out the door and find that others react to you in a positive way.

If you don’t feel that way now (yet), the world is losing out and so are you. The one thing you have in your power is what you are doing to make yourself feel amazing. If you are not emotionally feeling great, it is very easy not to make the effort to look great, but sister-friend, you deserve to look great and feel great, physically and emotionally.

Last week, I was most definitely not feeling great. I was under the weather I just wanted to wear all black, preferably pajamas, and stay on the couch all day. I put on all black, but threw on a camel jacket and a fun leopard-print hat and went out to a meeting anyway. I got a dozen compliments (ten of them about how much they liked the hat), and by the time I was on my way home, I literally felt so much better. Trust me, I don't always want to rally, get all gussied up, and face the people; however, I do it anyway, and every single time, I'm glad I did.

Take the time to put on some under-eye concealer, put rollers in your hair, and add a “pop of color” a la Brad Goreski. When you look good, you feel good (or at least a little better than before), and the extra effort is worth the time that it takes.

I think exercise, diet, rest, meditation, attitude, time with the girls, and a spiritual connection are the other critical elements that factor into our self-love. In turn, this self-love radiates outward to the world as self-confidence and authenticity.