Self Respect is Key

All that we are is the result of what we have thought - Guatama Buddha 😊

In this post, I'm going to talk about self respect. Over the last few years, I believe I may have disrespected somebody. Perhaps more than one person. Some more than others. Perhaps without knowing. But, I believe my demeaner hasn't matured to be a disrespectful person, but in any case it is easy to offend somebody without realising it. In any instance I have reflected back & taken responsibility for my actions, thus growing into the person I am today.

Along the road I have felt disrespected or I had allowed others to disrespect me as a result of my low self respect at that time. How another individual treats you is a reflection of their character & how you accept it is a reflection of yours.

You should remember this because how you naturally treat others is a reflection of your self respect. Generally, an individual with low self respect will show others an equal level of respect.

An individual that demands respect, you will notice, generally has a low level of self respect & therefore has to ask for respect to be shown. These people, I'm sure you know, are probably the most disrespectful people on earth & they most like have idea that they are doing it.

I often find that others show disrespect when they are bitter with a incident in their life where they have been mistreated or disrespected, it means a lot to them to regain that position they felt they had lost to another. For instance, a bully will most likely have been bullied in their life at some point, so they pick on weaker people in hope to gain respect from others to think they aren't weak. A certain gender, being mistreated by the opposite gender, will often treat everybody in the opposite gender with disrespect - its a weak trait.

You're self respect should be trained, grow with your life lessons.

Look where you began, look back on memories where you should have showed yourself more respect, look at times where others have disrespected you or others have disrespected you. I've had a magnitude of people who have demanded respect from not only me but all individuals in their circle, but the one common ugly trait I can reflect on, is that they believed they were better or above everybody else and really I know them to be damaged people. They were ignorant to their demeaner and this has taught me so much as to why they never anywhere near my level of character. It has actually paid dividends, as I began to see how others have offended me and I used those lessons to know how to not to treat others.

Move forward having learnt from these respect lessons in life. Be forgiving, have enough respect to know that others can learn from there mistakes through self reflection. Forgiveness is a huge sign of self-respect & respect of knowledge that others can make mistakes too. Further to this, never let forgiveness be seen as foolishness, don't let somebody fool you twice. Remember our personalities reflect towards others, if we allow others to disrespect us repeatedly, we allow our self respect to be lowered and the challenge of information we give to our brains as to why they treated you this way will distract your positive mindset & ambition to succeed in business.

Train your self respect & you will change your mindset positively