{"id":6662,"date":"2013-06-24T15:23:40","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T19:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=6662"},"modified":"2013-12-13T19:39:03","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T23:39:03","slug":"love-and-esteem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2013\/06\/24\/love-and-esteem\/","title":{"rendered":"Love and Esteem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/starsalive\/4832741299\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6836\" alt=\"loveesteem\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/loveesteem.png\" width=\"664\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/loveesteem.png 664w, https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/loveesteem-300x112.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What if these two things were created equal?<\/p>\n<p>What if wealth, beauty and status mattered as much as compassion, respect, care and value?<\/p>\n<p><strong>How would that change things?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What if my self-esteem (my view of wealth, beauty and status) was <em>equal<\/em> to my self-love (my view of compassion, respect, care and value)?<\/p>\n<p>What if I focused on respecting my feelings (compassion), setting my boundaries (respect), ensuring my wellness (care) and cultivating my gifts (value)?<\/p>\n<p>Would I find that my power (beauty, wealth and status) had grown as a result?<\/p>\n<p>My esteem wants to have and do but without knowing where my love lies, am I really getting what I want?<\/p>\n<p><strong>I can make the connection.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Between my external desires and my internal needs. I do not need to pursue one at the expense of the other.<\/p>\n<p>Through loving myself I am creating the esteem I desire.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>This article was partially inspired by the concepts found in <a title=\"Madly In Love With Me\" href=\"http:\/\/madlyinlovewithme.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Madly In Love With Me<\/a> by Christine Arylo.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>photo credit: <a title=\"tagged!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/starsalive\/4832741299\/\" target=\"_blank\">stars alive<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"ttr_end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/starsalive\/4832741299\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/loveesteem.png\" alt=\"loveesteem\" width=\"664\" height=\"248\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6836\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/loveesteem.png 664w, https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/loveesteem-300x112.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What if these two things were created equal?<\/p>\n<p>What if wealth, beauty and status mattered as much as compassion, respect, care and value?<\/p>\n<p><strong>How would that change things?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What if my self-esteem (my view of wealth, beauty and status) was <em>equal<\/em> to my self-love (my view of compassion, respect, care and value)?<\/p>\n<p>What if I focused on respecting my feelings (compassion), setting my boundaries (respect), ensuring my wellness (care) and cultivating my gifts (value)?<\/p>\n<p>Would I find that my power (beauty, wealth and status) had grown as a result?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[230,231,229,227,137,228,201,136,98,232,31],"class_list":["post-6662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-being-an-innerpreneur","tag-beauty","tag-care","tag-compassion","tag-esteem","tag-love","tag-others","tag-power","tag-respect","tag-self","tag-value","tag-wealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}