“You’re doing better than you think. Stop being so hard on yourself,” I said to my friend as he sat across from me, tears rolling down his face. His voice shook as he repeated, “I failed her. I’m not good enough. I’ll never be good enough.” I didn’t know what else to say. Here was someone who had never really accepted himself, no matter how much he achieved.

Once you accept who you are, the rest of the world falls into harmony.

That’s a powerful statement — “When you accept yourself, everything else falls into place.” It hits on something so core, yet so easily overlooked.

Self-acceptance doesn’t mean you stop growing or improving, it means you stop fighting who you are at your core. Once you let go of that internal resistance — the constant “not enough” feeling — life starts to feel more aligned. You make choices that actually fit you. You stop performing and start living.

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