Says Ashton Kutcher:

It doesn’t matter what someone looks like, or how smart someone is, everybody has an insecurity.  I struggle with constantly feeling like I have to get what’s out there because I don’t feel like what’s in here is enough.  I find myself chasing external things, such as success, or trying to find a really great wine, or trying to meet somebody I don’t know, or making a business deal I don’t already have.  It’s a constant pursuit of the external that’s probably built on an insecurity that what’s inside isn’t enough.

(From “Really Good Karma” by Amy Larocca in the September 21, 2009 issue of New York magazine.)

Me?  I chased blue ribbons, straight A’s, and the approval of other people for a few decades before realizing that

I’m smart enough, and doggone it people like me

didn’t actually matter.  What mattered is whether I liked me.  Easier said than done — but oh so worth it.

How did you get there?  What did you do to fall in love with yourself? (Holla, Whitney Houston!)

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