Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.- M. Scott Peck
Self acceptance
When you don’t value your life you will always be envious of someone. Correct love of self is key to find Contentment. You will only appreciate others and their gifts to the community. Not envy them or be jealous of them. Self-acceptance is the flip side of humility. It comes with maturity. You’ll realize that the grass is really not that green — it’s optical illusion.
The journey to your true-self is learning to trust your Higher Power. You’ll face many wars, conflicts, confusions, and lots self-doubt and fear of not being enough. The battle begins in the mind. So listen to your mind. The irony is when you open a door of your mind to the envious spirit, it will try to convince you that you’re superior and will allow evil to mess with your mind. And like King Ahab you’ll never be happy with your vineyard. You’ll pout like a child until Jezebel takes it for you. It will affect and infect your whole being. You will never be satisfied. A sense of superiority is the enemy of self-acceptance.
The first mission of envy is to convince yourself that you’re not satisfied, not enough. You want more. You want to live someone else’s life instead of your own. That one upsmanship – the art or practice of achieving, demonstrating or assuming superiority in one’s rivalry with a friend or even your sibling. I saw this with the disciples of Jesus. They were always fighting amongst themselves of who is more important or more loved, ir who will sit next to Jesus, and etc.
Take your life’s inventory and thank God for your gifts and talents and remind yourself that you can only aspire to improve and multiply the talents you’ve got. Improve your gifts by studying, reading and asking questions.
Be the best version of yourself.
We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.”
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it.
Once we truly know that life is difficult-once we truly understand and accept it-then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters. (M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth)