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" Dear Jess, I&amp;#039;m constantly comparing myself to other girls I feel are much better looking than me. How can I learn to stop this and focus on myself?&amp;quot; Maggie Dear Maggie, I wish there was an easy answer for this. You are going to have to do some personal digging to come up with why you feel the need to compare your looks to other girls. Where does this competitive feeling come from? Is it something someone said to you? Are you not getting the attention you need in your life? Or are you just trying to be a people pleaser who has to be the best at everything, including being the cutest girl in the room? Sometimes we tend to focus on other people \u2014 and comparing ourselves to them \u2014 to take our minds off of troubles we are having in our everyday lives. Sometimes it is a pattern we pick up from our moms (does she do this with other women?) and sometimes it is just the way we get conditioned by the media in our society to always compare our beauty to other standards. It&amp;#039;s time to define for yourself who Maggie is and what makes Maggie beautiful. Is it the way you laugh with your friends? The way you care about your community? Is it that freckle on your lip or the curl of your hair? Begin to write down what you like about yourself inside and out (try listing three things to start) and remember, there is no prize to being the cutest girl in the room. The real prize is when you can see yourself as beautiful and not need to compare yourself to anyone anymore. Blessings, Jess "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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