The Two Sides of A Self Love Challenge
For some people, self-love comes naturally, but it’s more difficult for others.
Have you ever wondered why?
What sets these two kinds of people apart?
It’s their willingness to embrace challenges!
The people who find it easier to love themselves have a knack for challenges. They constantly enjoy challenging themselves to do things that push them towards self-love.
But people who find self-love difficult fear and avoid challenges, which makes self-love a far-fetched dream for them.
Thus, if you desire to love yourself, you should be prepared to take up a self-love challenge.
A self-love challenge is the determination to overcome the obstacles to loving oneself and dare to develop self-love. It’s a process of discovering self-love and using it to create the life you want.
A self-love challenge is of two types:
1) Liberating Self-Love Challenges: These challenges relate to eliminating the negativities that prevent you from loving yourself, such as fear, anger, laziness, and hopelessness.
2) Constructive Self-love Challenges: These challenges relate to the list of self-love activities that help you build self-love in your life, such as building self-esteem, mindfulness, self-discovery, and acts of kindness.
To start a self-love challenge, you prepare and follow a checklist of activities for several days or weeks. For example, you might perform a particular set of self-love activities for 7, 21, or 30 days.
Completing a self-love challenge helps you develop self-love in your life. It kickstarts your self-love journey and grows it throughout your life.
You can take up one challenge after another to keep growing your self-love. The checklist of activities you follow in a self-love challenge should be customized to your needs at various stages.
In this blog, I will provide two powerful self-love challenges for beginners. You can use them to start loving yourself and also as a template to create more self-love challenges.
Let’s begin with the first self-love challenge.
The Biggest Challenges To Self-love
SELF-LOVE CHALLENGE #1
Let’s begin with a Constructive Self-love Challenge.
According to me, the biggest challenge to self-love is low self-esteem.
When you have a low sense of self-worth, you start believing you don’t deserve self-love.
Thus, the first challenge you should take up as a self-love beginner is developing self-worth.
Here is a 7-day self-love challenge to develop self-worth within yourself.
DAY 1: SELF-COMPASSION LETTER: Write a letter to yourself like you would write to comfort a dear friend. Write about your struggles and appreciate yourself for not giving up. List the things you did to overcome challenges. Point out your strengths and offer kind words.
DAY 2: MIRROR AFFIRMATIONS: Stand in front of a mirror, look into your eyes, and say three positive affirmations about yourself, such as “I am enough just as I am,” “I am proud of myself,” and “I believe in myself.”
DAY 3: SET BOUNDARIES: Identify one area where you need stronger boundaries, such as relationships, work, or social media. Take one step to enforce a healthy limit today.
DAY 4: CELEBRATE WINS: Write down any five things you have accomplished, big or small. Recognizing your progress will boost your self-worth.
DAY 5: UNFOLLOW NEGATIVITY: Unfollow or mute social media accounts that make you feel unworthy or insecure. Replace them with uplifting content.
DAY 6: SELF-CARE RITUAL: Do something beneficial for your physical or mental health, such as taking a relaxing bath, reading a motivational book, going for a peaceful walk in nature, or enjoying your favorite meal mindfully.
DAY 7: GRATITUDE FOR YOURSELF: Write ten things you appreciate about yourself. It may be kindness, strength, creativity, humor, or anything else. List the personal traits that make you YOU.
This self-love challenge will help you build self-worth and a positive image of yourself in your mind.
SELF-LOVE CHALLENGE #2
Let’s now do a Liberating Self-love Challenge.
Fear is one of the biggest negativities that prevent us from loving ourselves. It shrinks our potential and makes us settle for less than what we deserve.
Only when we learn to overcome the mountain of our fears can we start seeing the sun of our self-love.
To overcome your fears, you must challenge yourself with the following 7-day self-love challenge.
DAY 1: IDENTIFY YOUR FEARS: Write down your biggest fears and track their sources. Ask yourself if these fears are based on facts or assumptions.
DAY 2: CHANGE YOUR PERSPECTIVE: For every fear, write a positive counter-statement to reframe it. For example, Fear: “I am afraid of failing.” Counter Statement: “Every mistake helps me improve and grow.”
DAY 3: TAKE A SMALL BRAVE STEP: Do one small thing that scares you. It may be speaking up, setting boundaries, trying something new, or expressing your opinion.
DAY 4: PRACTICE SELF-TRUST: Write about three instances in the past when you faced a fear and handled it well. Remind yourself, “I have done it before and can do it again.”
DAY 5: RELEASE FEAR PHYSICALLY: Do an activity that releases fear-based energy, such as exercise, screaming into a pillow, dancing, or deep breathing.
DAY 6: EMBRACE THE WORST-CASE SCENARIO: Visualize the worst if your fear comes true. Now, ask yourself:
– How would I handle it?
– What could I learn from it?
– Is it really as bad as my mind makes it seem?
DAY 7: CELEBRATE YOUR BRAVERY: Write down everything you have done this week and reward yourself for your bravery and progress. Self-love grows when you recognize your courage!
This self-love challenge for eliminating fear will help you face your fears, build courage, and develop self-trust while nurturing self-love.
Use Self-love Challenges To Move Ahead
The above self-love challenges will help you kickstart your self-love journey by eliminating fear and building self-worth. To move ahead, take up similar liberating and constructive self-love challenges. You can also take up self-love activities as a challenge to develop self-love directly.
Completing these challenges one after another will consistently enhance your self-love and make life more beautiful for you.
