Here’s one of my unpopular opinions for you...

Listen to what others say about you.

I know this is completely crazy because I'm always saying don't listen to the judgments of others.

Those judgements are just showing the perceptions and worldviews of those making the judgement. They mean nothing about you at all and everything about the person doing the judging.

Yet, not all judgements are “bad.”

So consider for a moment that most women have really low self-worth. I get it. I've been there.

It's really hard to take a compliment, right? Even from your mom. I used to have such a hard time accepting compliments even from people who I knew loved me and saw me for who I truly was.

So what I’d love to offer to you is…

Take those compliments and really celebrate yourself through them because if they're coming at you from an open-hearted loving place, they're just showing you who you already are. They’re showing you the Goddess you already are that is amazing, fabulous, clever, smart, and talented.

So when those compliments come in, take them, accept them, say thank you, and then say to yourself, “What if I am that amazing? What if I am that smart? What if I am that clever? What if I am that great a mom, a great a marketer, great xyz, whatever it is..?”

“What if I am so fabulous?”

Guess what, Goddess? It is the truth. Your Goddess self is all those things and more, and is absolutely incredible. And this little exercise and perspective starts to help reprogram your subconscious mind to see that for you, so that you raise your self-worth and start to live in this more expansive place of feeling positive and loving toward yourself.

And it feels so much better. And it is who you already are.

Yet, like many women, you probably tend to reject compliments, even though that compliment is just highlighting who you actually already are inside. You've just forgotten about it.

You're a fine art masterpiece. Beautiful, perfect, amazing brushstrokes, gorgeous colors, just radiant. But you've been hidden in a long dusty attic for a long time.

It’s like you’ve been painted over, and then some talented restorer comes along and uncovers you, discovering a long lost Degas or Monet underneath. That's you. You are the masterpiece.

But life and the things you've been taught by the world, culture, and even your parents, have covered you over. Instead of your light shining out unaltered, your light is shining out through the murky, muddy filter of somebody else’s painting over top of you. You're not seeing yourself for how cool and amazing you are.

You were born that way. You are that way - the Goddess self you are.

So yes, take those compliments and run with them. This is not about arrogance. This is not about being all puffed up in your ego.

This is about saying, “This is my truth,” in love for yourself. And saying, “Yes, I am that amazing. What if I am that amazing right now?”

NOW - not later. This is not something you have to get, find, create, grow into. What if you are that amazing right now?