Self Worth

When someone ask you do you know your worth? How do you answer? Many of us have never asked ourselves the question, we just hesitate and don't give it a thought. Self worth is effected as we grow older, people's opinions and attitudes toward us start determining how we see ourselves. We start to measure what we can do and who we will be by the measuring stick of society, that is not the way we should see ourselves.
I know for me I felt like the odds were always against me, being the oldest and experiencing new things first there was no one in front for me to measure by. All my life, I could remember the negative audience always cutting it short, telling me it can't happen, its impossible, etc. For me that was like putting gasoline to the fire, I would attempt and go hard at it because I was determined that I could achieve the impossible or improve at it in some sort of way. I had developed self love(when no one can love you like you) I wasn't arrogant but I wasn't the type to just accept other people's outcome for me. You have to trust your feelings about yourself so I quickly learned I had to make choices for me. I learned how to self analyze, which wasn't hard because I am a analytical person anyways, but learning how to constantly self analyze was hard and I didn't always do it. Building your self worth, you have to become your own cheering squad, remind yourself you matter, your number one. Prove to yourself by taking responsibility, owning up to the fact that you are in control of your attitude, your reactions, and your worth. You have to forgive yourself, responsibility also requires that you relinquish the need to use criticizing as a source of coping, criticizing alleviates the need to look at yourself and to change your own behavior. Put your energy into what you need to do to change your situation, one main suggestion is STOP TRYING TO PLEASE PEOPLE. I changed my thought process and started to take difficult scenarios and change them into opportunities, learning to value myself a lot more. Reaching that level wasn't easy, for some time I always put myself last, after awhile though you start to realize your self worth.