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You can't hate yourself into loving yourself.

Published Jan 19, 2025, 6:20 PM

I want to share this piece from Big Dream Hakeem, one of my favourite social media people. 

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AJM gon A here, Welcome back to the Building Better Humans Project podcast. I wanted to share today a social media account that I follow religiously. I really love this social media account and I love the way this guy presents as well as his content, which is a large part of all the one this morning anyways about self love, and he talks about it the fact that you can't hate yourself into loving yourself. And I believe and I talked about this. I guess last week with a gype Attire podcast that your mindset starts with your capacity to hold yourself to a high standard. And I think the best way to hold yourself to a high standard is to actually love and respect yourself enough to know that the standard you're currently operating at isn't good enough. So this account's called Big Dream Hakeeen, that's h Akwm. I really really love his content, and I love sharing content from social media because it's a place to get a bad rap. There's a lot of good stuff out there as well. And I want you to listen to this, and I want you to ask yourself some questions around whether whether or not you are trying to hate yourself into loving yourself. And one of the examples he gives is do you go to the gym because you want to improve or do you go to the gym because you hate how you currently look. Now, you think that's the same thing either way, you're going to the gym, But the truth is, you can't hate yourself into loving yourself. So if you're going to the gym just because you hate the way you look currently, there's a good chance that your gym program is not going to work. You're going to give up on it at some point because it's not quite a fit for who you are and what it is that you're trying to achieve. As opposed to I'm going to the gym because I want to be optimal. I want to I want my body and my mind to operate as optimally as possible, and I know to do that, I need to be physically fit. I'm currently in a new training program, and I'm nearly fifty three years of age, and I'm in a new training program to get myself ready to do a thirty nine hour across to the COD, CODA, tracking P ANDNG. There's a big challenge. It's a big challenge for me. There's a big challenge to any age, but it's a big challenge for me at this age, and it means that I've got to put myself through a fairly rigorous training program. But I've got to be smart and start at the right level and slowly build that thing up. And I've got some injuries as you get, as you get older that I've got to work around and so on. But the big thing is, I'm not doing it because I hate myself. I'm not doing it because I don't like the way I look on because of carrying a bit of extra weight. All of those things might be true at some different points of my life, but it's not why I'm doing it. I'm doing it because the result of the challenge that I've set myself is important enough to me. So I really want you to understand as you kick off your week this week, that you cannot hate yourself into loving yourself. And unless you have some love and respect for yourself, there is no way in this world you're going to achieve the goals that you think you want to achieve. You've got to do that from a place of someone that you love and respect it and it has to stop with you.

You can't hate yourself and the loving yourself? What the hell? Self acceptance is the foundation for self love. If you're making changes do to self hate, you're going to attract the things that support the hate. If you accept what it is and make changes for self love, you will begin to attract the things that love you too, including your soul mate. Come on now, are you exercising because you know it's good for you or because you don't like your wave? Do you eat bs and solitude? Then go on to day and change what's on your plate. What you're doing. I can see your sin showing in your skin, and I can see your choices showing in your physique. Ah, you better choose yourself. Get your sleep, skip the snooze, stretch you body, eat some food, hit the gym, cold shower, put some gratitude in your attitude. Come on now, a so, if you're trying to turn so heye into self love, go ahead and join me in there. C y C T G y M And that's grow your mind. Then you better get up, get over it, get after it. I choose yourself and love get it.

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