Are you good lookin?

I am one good lookin' son-of-a-gun. I mean it. Sometimes I catch myself checking myself out. Like, if I'm driving, I'll periodically flip down the visor just to admire how well my square framed sunglasses complement my cheekbones. On a sunny day, I like to admire how naturally multi-tonal my hair can be when it catches the light just so. Really, at any given moment with a mirror nearby, you might catch me checking out my hiney (depending on how slammin' it is on that particular day). Sometimes when I'm putting my makeup on (we all need a little help), I love how green my eyes can be with just the right eye liner/eye shadow/mascara combination.

By now, you're either gagging or you think I'm singularly the most vain person you've ever encountered (short of maybe, Kim Kardashian).

Am I vain? Maybe. I prefer to call it confident. And quite frankly, I wasn't always this confident (and even now, my confidence isn't running on all 8 cylinders all the time).

Look, we all have our down days. We all have those people in our lives who exist for no other reason than to do their best to make us feel bad about ourselves. There was one guy, a few years ago, right before I met my husband, who after I broke up with him decided that spending an evening with his besties going through my Facebook photos and commenting on exactly how much weight they thought I had gained would be good post break up therapy (Ladies: don't ever let guys tell you that we're the only catty people. They are just as catty as we are. Proof positive). This would have all been well and good (and normal, post-break up activity), had I never found out about it when I received a text message that DEFINITELY was not meant to be sent to me. I was embarrassed, outraged and hurt. And worst of all, my confidence was destroyed.

I had two options with this. I could either (1) let it eat me alive and totally wreck my whole persona or (2) move on, forget it and live my life. I chose option 2.

So maybe I'm vain. Or maybe, it's just my daily affirmations. My daily way of reminding myself that I'm beautiful. Does that hurt anyone? Not in my book.

I think everyone should have these daily affirmations. Find things that you like about yourself and focus on those, instead of focusing on what you hate about yourself (and believe me, there's plenty of that I could focus on if I wanted to). I think when you focus on what you like about yourself, you actually take better care of yourself overall because you're more inspired to keep what you like, well, there.

What's your daily affirmation?