Do you know ? The happiest and most successful people have more shortcomings than you ?

Let me share a story with you. There was a little girl named Gail. In the 1950's, Gail was born to unwed black teenage parents, and was raised by her grandmother.

Her future seemed totally bleak. She was very poor. She was black. ( African ) and she was not encouraged to go to school because she was a black girl. She was an illegitimate child. To make things worse, she was raped by her cousin at the age of nine and molested by her own uncle. In depressed and angry, she got into trouble with the law and gained a lots of weight too.

If, if you were Gail, would you find it to be easy to live in a circumstances like that ? Would you find it easy to love for who you were ? Nobody would blame her if she hated herself and wanted to be somebody better. Instead, Gail learned how to accept and loves herself. She started to focus on her strengths. She was good in reading, She loved to talk, She cared for other people and She was AMBITIOUS !

By loving herself, Gail gained the confidence to set a high goals and to take action. She aimed to be rich and to be respected by others from the whole world. She began to work very hard for herself. And, today Oprah Gail Winfrey has a prime time world famous talk show called Oprah Winfrey Show, and she is one of the richest ( worth US$ 3.0 Billion ), most famous and most successful woman in the world.

So, no matter what weaknesses you may have, you CAN overcome them by loving yourself. Accept who you are and focus on your strength.