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Knowing your worth has to do with valuing yourself, what you contribute to the world, and the people around you. Knowing your worth is about how you value yourself.  Your self-esteem is associated with your self worth. Your worth is not about how attractive you are, nor is it about how much money you have or don't have.  Your worth is about your personality characteristics and the value you add to the world.   Someone who is attractive, but has a bad attitude, depreciates in value.  Someone who is wealthy, and not humble depreciates in value.  Humility is having the self-esteem to understand that even though you are doing well, you do not have to brag about it. People who know their worth, don't have to go around bragging about it, their actions will clearly demonstrate their worth. 

Knowing your worth is about knowing what, who and where to spend your time, money, and energy.  It is also about loving yourself, knowing who you are, respecting yourself, and not compromising your morals or values to have something or someone.  It is about having integrity, dignity, ethics, and accountability.   Knowing your worth is about Believing in yourself, and knowing that you are a good person who deserves to be treated with respect and love. When you do not know your worth, you allow others to devalue you and treat you less than how you deserve to be treated.  Knowing your worth is an internal process, because it is specific to how YOU feel about YOURSELF.

 

Knowing your worth is your internal measure of how you value yourself REGARDLESS of what other people think or feel about you. Sometimes, people who have a low sense of self worth, can only see you through their own lens of how high or low they value themselves, and he/she will never place you in a higher regard than they can place themselves.  Therefore, you cannot allow other people to tell you how worthy or unworthy you are.  You have to know your worth.  You are like precious diamonds, you are valuable, you are worthy, you matter, you are loved, you are important, you are wanted, you are unique, and there is no one like you.  

If you ever find that you begin to devalue yourself, because of your life experiences, and/or how people may have treated you, know that you can regain your self-worth by thinking positive, forgiving yourself, and treating yourself with grace, kindness and love.  Know that you deserve to be happy, and life is too short to not get what you want out of the life that you only get one chance to live.  Know your worth and do not settle for anything less than what you truly deserve, if you truly want to be happy.  Never let anyone make you feel less than.  Never lose your self-worth.  Know your worth and act accordingly.

 

By Lynnette Clement