Emma Chamberlain

Make promises to yourself and follow through.

That's one of the greatest ways that you can build trust with yourself.

It builds self-respect.

If you say, tomorrow I'm gonna wake up at seven in the morning and I'm gonna journal and I'm gonna cook myself a healthy breakfast.

with lots of like fun like I'm gonna use everything bagel seasoning and I'm gonna like plate it pretty and like maybe that's a promise you make to yourself fulfill that promise maybe the next week your promise to yourself is I'm going to work every day without going on Instagram every like for a week I'm not gonna let myself go on Instagram during working hours for a week

Keep that promise to yourself.

That will build self-respect.

The next week, okay, I'm going to exercise three times this week.

Keep that promise.

Watch the respect build.

I think having this sort of relationship with yourself where you're making goals for yourself and then making a promise to yourself that you will fulfill it and then doing it, that process really helps with building self-respect and self-esteem.

In addition to that, I think making the effort to form a set of solid personal beliefs makes it easier to trust your perception of yourself.

If you have a solid set of morals, values, you know what you think is right and wrong.

And then if you live by that,

to the best of your ability, it's going to be really hard for anyone's random opinion of you to shake you because you have such a solid sense of morality and you're living, you're abiding by it.

So if somebody tries to like, I don't know, if somebody rejects you or doesn't want you in their life anymore, you're like, I don't really, okay, because I'm kind of, I'm a good person.

I'm doing the work.

So your loss, you know, whatever.

It's easier to let other people's opinions or thoughts of you roll off your back if you're really locked into that moral compass.

You trust yourself.