The Price of Love...

‘A debt you pay with tears and pain’ - Ferry

I think we’ve all paid for the price of love and have given everything in trying to find it. The return - a lifetime of heartache, tears and pain. Our investment into relationships with other people goes without question. My question to you though, is how much have you invested in yourself? 

I mean, how much value do you give yourself?

It’s a question well worth asking and if right now, you are low on confidence and self-esteem, the answer is no doubt - not a lot. It’s really sad affair as a lot of the folk I meet feel worthless. If they were put forward as a product on BBC’s Dragon’s Den Programme and they were a Dragon – they certainly wouldn’t invest. 

Yet we are all worth self-investment. I mean what’s the point in living if you are not prepared to invest your time, energy and money into the person in your world that probably needs it the most - YOU.

It’s strange how people lose their self-value. Take my weightloss clients for example - weight-gain isn’t an overnight happening - it’s the result of spending more time spinning plates getting through life, holding down a job, bringing up a family and ignoring one’s lifestyle. Time and energy is spent externally with nothing left in the bank for self-investment.

A permanent state of being overdrawn without hope of credit.

And okay there’s no magic overnight life-overdraft fix, yet time and time again people do regain their self-esteem, lose weight, potentially extend their lives and have a much richer life for a mere 22.8p a day. Yes just 22.8p a day. Well that’s how I see it and I did a bit of ‘Coleman-Calculating’ and if working with me for five months yields an extra fifteen years’ of life - it’s a better return than Bitcoin.

So, what’s there to lose apart from unhealthy lifestyle and a relatively small amount of money. Nothing. In fact, it’s like winning the lottery every single day of your life, for the rest of your life. A much more rewarding life.

One where health, pride, self-esteem, self-value, confidence, improved relationships with family, colleagues, friends, food and alcohol await those that are willing to pay the price of ‘change’ and ‘self-love’. I can’t promise true ‘love’, but it must improve the chances of that too, so why not invest some time in yourself today.

You only have yourself to blame…

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