How big is your ego?

I think I am cool. Actually, I am great! Man, I have a lot to learn buuut I am pretty damn great. I have an Ego problem. It is not a big one. The problem it is, but it makes my life more complicated than it needs to be.

I always thought I do so much and work on myself so much to be the best version of myself, to bring all the value I can to people around me. Does it mean I am going to be liked by everyone? No. No, it doesn’t. There is no way we can make someone like us if they, well, don’t.

Why do we think we are entitled to be admired/respected/liked by everyone? Why do we assume that every ex is crying over us? Every friend worships us? Every passer by is amazed by how awesome we are?

And by ‘we’, I mostly mean ‘I’.

I have listened to Ryan Holiday talk about his book ‘Ego is the Enemy’ and talk by Michelle Lederman, it made so much sense. Do your best to be happy with who you are, tweak and modify things that you think can help you to be a better person and be yourself.

There is only one ‘you’. The only way to make someone like you is to be authentic, be true to that ‘you’.

What I am going to do is to constanly remind myself that I am OK with someone not liking me. I don’t like some people and that’s OK. Someone I like won’t like me. And that’s OK too. I am bettering myself everyday and that what matters.