Why growing your self-respect is so important and how to do it

Sinem Günel
The Startup
Published in
5 min readMar 19, 2019

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Building strong self-respect can make your life more valuable in many different ways.

Often, we confront ourselves with negative energy and discouraging thoughts about ourselves, whereas we would never use negative words on people who are important to us.

However, it is highly valuable to keep in mind that you are the most important person in your life.

While you can always choose all the other people surrounding you, you will always stay.

Thus, respecting yourself is a highly crucial step to gain more confidence, strength, and self-love.

Respecting yourself not only means valuing yourself but also making the right decisions and taking the right steps when it comes to your life.

Once you truly respect yourself and your own wellbeing you will have it easy to distance yourself from negativity and from everything that is tearing you down.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power. — Clint Eastwood

Challenge yourself every day

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Sinem Günel
The Startup

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