How much people respect you?

A very clever criterion to check how much people respect you is to check how well you can keep promises you have made to yourself. The ones that you have made with a voice in your head. The ones that no one else has listened. The ones that you don't dare to share sometimes. 

And if you wonder what is the connection between the two, for me it became obvious today and I wanted to share. 

Keeping the promises you have made to yourself means that you respect yourself. And if you respect yourself, there is no possibility and no space for others to disrespect you. The love, the interest, the respect and the happiness are inner values that begin from yourself and return to yourself. Independently of how respectful a character is to other people, in order to receive and nourish the respect, you have to be able to know respect deeply, and that can only be achieved by respecting yourself. Consequently, if you respect yourself, you radiate a respectful aura to others as well, and you are considered as such a character. 

No matter how much people could value and appreciate you, no matter how many nice words you receive, be sure for this: all these do not matter if you do not respect yourself. 

Set your standards, keep your promises, the ones to yourself, respect and love you and this is the means to reach a continuous improvement and peace with the most important person on earth for you, yourself.