How to Deal With Personal Dissatisfaction

Not loving ourselves can sap motivation we need to make changes we desire

If we can pause, recognize, and greet our feelings of personal dissatisfaction with kindness, they can help us grow. Dmytro Vietrov/Shutterstock

I have personal dissatisfactions, and I'd be willing to bet everyone reading this does, too. The more I talk to people about their struggles, the more I realize that we all have some sense of dissatisfaction with ourselves.

We constantly have a feeling that we should be better, more productive, more mindful, and so on.