Prove to yourself that you’re not trying to improve because you think you suck.

When you focus on developing yourself for quite some time, you might end up developing a considerable amount of self-loathing, because trying to improve yourself might be interpreted by your mind as a sign of dissatisfaction with your current state, which might imply that you hate yourself or your current state on some level, and that’s why you need to change, or that’s why you’re trying to change.

One of the things that can lead to making things worse in this scenario is the fact that you never thought of testing yourself to see how far you’ve come, because you’re so focused on getting better and getting ahead, you have no idea how much improvement you’ve reached insofar.

So you have no idea whether or not you are currently good enough at whatever aspect of yourself that you’re trying to improve, and you think on a certain level that you are only trying so hard to improve because you currently are horrible.

As you can see, despite having good intentions, despite doing everything right, you ended up with more self-loathing than that which you’ve had before attempting to go hard or all in on improving yourself.

In this case, it makes sense to assume that attempting to use what you currently have without the intention of improving, or without trying to improve or get any better while doing so, will alleviate whatever sense of self-loathing that presumably developed due to any amount of exclusive focus on improving only during any certain prolonged amount or period of time.

You might find it hard to improve much if you’re already great, which might get you frustrated a little bit, because you feel like you’re not getting any results despite putting in all that amount of work and effort into the process of improving or the continuous betterment of yourself. And lack of awareness of how far you’ve come or how great you currently are might increase that amount of frustration.

Sometimes you’re really that good. You’re just not aware of it.

What can improve you, can differ greatly from what shows you how good you currently are without further improvement.

Test yourself. Show yourself that you have no reason to not feel good about yourself.