One thing that we too often do is stop ourselves from doing things that we truly want to do. So, from today start giving yourself permission. Give yourself permission to immediately walk away from anything and anyone that is giving you bad vibes or who doesn’t encourage you to be your best. Give yourself permission to be happy. Don’t hold onto past hurts, they have happened, it’s time to let them go, so give yourself permission to do that as well, to let go of past hurts. Those hurts may have shaped the person that you are today, but they don’t define you, stop letting them. Stop using those past hurts as a crutch to not be the best person that you can be, stop using the past hurts as an excuse for your own bad behavior.
Give yourself permission to live your life the way that you want to. Stop letting others opinions stop you from being your best, to let them stop you from living your life the way that you have wanted. You want to study? Go and study, you don’t need anyone else’s permission to do that, no-one but your own. This is your life and others will try and dampen your dreams, because they are too afraid to follow their own, so give yourself permission to say ‘thank you for your thoughts, but I’m doing it anyway’.
Give yourself permission to be you. Don’t let magazines or fashion dictate what you are supposed to look like or what you’re supposed to wear – you want to wear loud bright colourful clothing that makes you look like you’ve been fucked by a unicorn – then go do it! Be proud to be an individual and to be confident in who you really are. Stop suppressing your natural instincts because it doesn’t conform to what society says you should be doing. As long as you’re not hurting anyone in the process then go and be yourself.
Give yourself permission to be wrong. Tough one right? But it’s important to acknowledge when you’re wrong, don’t cut your nose off to spite your face, we need a nose. Make sure as soon as you know that you are wrong that you own it and apologise for it, no-one in history has ever choked to death from swallowing their pride.
Whatever it is you have been wanting to do, whatever life it is that you are wanting to live, give yourself permission to do it, you don’t need to explain yourself or have other people understand why, just listen to that inner voice when it talks to you.
Give yourself permission to just go and be yourself just make sure that you are being your best self.