What is true happiness?  To have the Pizzazz Factor completely - inside out, it is helpful to feel truly happy. The feeling of being truly content with who you are as a person, gives you sense of power and self-confidence.

Only when you have accepted yourself and you honestly love yourself, can you exhibit the poise and the self-confidence that gives you that truly magnetic presence,  the Pizzazz Factor - the ability to be attracting, charming and memorably radiant.


But how do you get to the point that you can feel honestly, without affectation or pretense that you accept yourself, that you can just be. Be who you are to the fullest extent.

The extent to which you feel confident and self-assured might vary from day to day and from task to task.  You might feel more sure of yourself in some situations than others. But I would venture to say that one of the most important things when it comes to self-acceptance is to be able to forgive yourself.

We quite often find it easier to forgive others than we do to forgive ourselves.  Every time you forgive yourself for a behavior, you are able to have more compassion towards yourself and others.

When you have more compassion for your self and your mistakes, you grow in self-love.  There can't be happiness without love, and no love without compassion and no compassion without forgiveness - so by starting with forgiveness, you end up at love and happiness.

So start right now and find a way to start to forgive yourself for your mistakes and behaviors, and you have taken the first step towards true happiness, true self-acceptance and true Pizzazz.