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Tuesday, 27 March 2018

Thinking Positive and Self-Confidence

March 27, 2018 0

Self-confidence is an important key to success. It is also one of the major bases of a person's existence and self respect in the society. To become successful you must always adopt a positive attitude. To develop a positive attitude, you must lead an honest and truthful life as well.

Important Tips To Increase Your Self-Confidence:

First of all, shortlist and note down all your fears and weaknesses. Then only you can work out and take appropriate steps to tackle them.
Think Positive, Act Positive and Keep Smiling. This will greatly enhance your personality. Gradually, you will begin meeting new people with the same positive attitude. With increased good energy flowing all around, your self-confidence is bound to increase on its own.
Always remain active and alert in your activities. Gradually, you will start feeling a gush of self-confidence increasing inside you.
Keep yourself updated with the latest happenings, especially which is directly connected with your studies. It could be through the internet, newspapers, different TV channels or maybe through friends and seniors.
All wise, learned and successful people are generally self confident. They always talk very politely, patiently and are good listeners. Start developing such good habits slow and steadily.
Increase your capabilities, though slowly by taking small steps in the beginning so that you can yourself analyse and evaluate your progress. In this way, you will also be able to initiate corrective measures immediately, and avoid any kind of displeasure or discouragement later.
Brisk walking, moderate exercising or aerobics on alternate days or weekends will help you to keep yourself physically and mentally fit. You may choose between the morning and evening timings as per your convenience.
Develop good and friendly contacts with people who are already successful and well respected in the society. Appreciate their hard work, dedication and success wholeheartedly. These are generally nice and humble people. They will guide you and provide all the necessary help to achieve your goals.
Pending works confuse the mind and reduce a lot of self-confidence. Kindly avoid all delays in your works and try to finish them as soon as possible.
Always keep yourself engaged in something or the other. Never ever sit idle or waste your time, efforts and resources in useless activities. All the time that is used constructively encourages and motivates you. Indirectly and gradually, it further increase your courage and self-confidence.
Being good at work is one of the important ingredients of your self-confidence. For this, always keep in mind and give due consideration to all the points, big and small, in any given assignment.
Keep your focus more on self-improvement and developing your abilities instead of getting entangled in problems, worries or tensions coming your way.
Set your goals and targets, somewhat smaller and medium, according to your own capabilities which should seem to be achievable. They should not be according to other people's plans and goals or compete with them in any way.
Be YOURSELF always. You are better than hundreds and thousands of people out there. Each and every person is born unique and has certain qualities of their own which are quite different from others. So, stop comparing yourself with others to avoid developing any kind of inferiority complex. Instead, focus on your strengths and talents, and start improving hour weaknesses. Soon, you would be at par with the most talented, successful and confident people in this world.


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Thursday, 18 January 2018

January 18, 2018 0

Can Self Esteem Be Taught?

Of course it can, in fact we have all, as a society been taught to believe self esteem is even a thing. Prior to 1980 most people hadn't even heard of self esteem. The first use of the term can be traced back to 1890 but even then the concept of self esteem didn't really even become an accepted as a psychological concept until the late 1960's. This came about as the rise in consumerism and consumption started to put the individual at the centre of his or her destiny.
A major influence on the self esteem movement was Nathaniel Brandon who is often credited as the father of the self esteem movement. So if you're having self esteem issues as you might like to call them, you can blame him. This was affected by enlightened self interest and radical individualism espoused by An Rand. Whilst Branden's views may not be what they once were, he is widely credited with opening the door of self esteem to popular culture. This occurred sometime around the late 80's as self esteem began to move from the world of academia into the public consciousness.
Helped along by political types, a member of the California State Assembly even claiming low self esteem is the cause of drug abuse, teenage pregnancy and even school underachievement. Seeing boosting self esteem as a form of social vaccine. All this despite no evidence and many studies showing evidence to the contrary.
Unlike many fads that come and go, self esteem has hung in there and become part of the social fabric and popular culture of the western world. These unsubstantiated and erroneous beliefs about self esteem became part of the teachings about how we should view ourselves. So effectively much of our society has been taught to believe in self esteem. It has become reality based on collective belief and wish instead of evidence or fact.
What can you do? Refuse to rate the self, start by accepting yourself because you can breathe, and start to notice when you are trying to rate your entirety. When things go well try being happy stop yourself at that point if your habit is to start making sweeping generalisations about yourself as a result. When things don't go well its OK to be unhappy, but rating yourself because of it is not only unhelpful, it's also incredibly inaccurate. Learning to accept yourself unconditionally is the best place to be.





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