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Have You Upgraded Your Self-Esteem Lately?
Posted by: | CommentsHow do you feel about this statement: “The more you know, the more you know you don’t know”? Have you read about the changes in the educational process? Teachers will be held more accountable. Students will ne required to accept more responsibility and discipline. Parents will be asked to be more involved with their children to guide them to prepare for life.
There is a new renaissance and commitment to excellence in education. Is excellence worth it? Nick Carter, a friend of mine says, “Everything worthwhile in life has a procedure.” There is a procedure for getting dressed, preparing a meal, eating, riding a bike, playing a game, and driving a car. There is also a procedure for learning and placing a high value on excellence.
Learning the basics of Reading, Writing, Math, Listening, Speaking, and Asking Questions is important. What about the most basic of skills – the skill of developing intact Self-Esteem? What would need to exist for all parents, students, and teachers to be taught Self-Esteem principles and to take a Self-Esteem evaluation at the beginning and end of each school year? Do you have any idea how the achievement scores would increase? Can you picture the level of family, community, national, and international harmony that could be created?
What point do I want to make? It is simply this: If we want to prepare people for taking full responsibility for their lives, we first
need to help them develop their Self-Esteem. Then we can teach the other skills.
Take action now. How intact is your Self-Esteem? What do you know about Self-Esteem? Next, evaluate the time and money you are investing in educating you and your family. Check the financial and psychological rewards you are receiving. If the payoff is not there to your satisfaction, then continue studying Self-Esteem. Your relationships are based on your Self-Esteem. You earn money based on your Self-Esteem. You accept responsibility for everything your think, say, do, and feel based on your Self-Esteem. You learn based on your Self-Esteem. Your Self-Esteem impacts all areas of your life now and in the future.
Refine and upgrade your Self-Esteem and then, watch what happens!
You can learn to clarify your thinking, improve your communications with others, and enhance the way you feel about yourself and your relationship with the Lord.
Do You Love Yourself?
Posted by: | CommentsDoes anyone ever ask you just what is Self-Esteem all about? Have you ever wondered about Self-Esteem? Have you noticed there is an increased interest in Self-Esteem? People and organizations are becoming more aware that when they add just a little more Self-Esteem, more potential and productivity are released.
Self-Esteem is the core of a person’s physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. Self-Esteem is the self respect you feel for yourself. You can instantly observe a person’s Self-Esteem by the way they treat you. The entire focus of Self-Esteem is on a very difficult word for many people – that word is love. First, love yourself. Then, and only then, can you love anyone else. In other words, you can give only what you have and no more!
In Modern Maturity magazine, Caroline Bird and clinical psychologist, Howard Newberger, were talking about aging and the need for love. They believe some people get into trouble because they fail to realize that love is a developmental relationship that can get broader. For example, as people progress in their loving relationships, they can allow more kinds of relationships in their lives. They can also develop deeper relationships through the years. Love of some kind is essential as long as we draw breath. It is something that we can always be learning. Is it possible, that with focus and practice, the older we get, the better we get at loving ourselves and others?
Caroline Bird says, “Love is the real thing and love is an active process. Love is the overflow of our fulfillment that we give to others, to keep them in their fulfillment. There are four steps to love:
1. Loving yourself.
2. Choosing someone to love.
3. Finding out what that person needs.
4. Doing something about it.”
The most challenging part is loving yourself. I believe there is no better way to age gracefully than to develop your Self-Esteem. The reason people and organizations strive to learn more about Self-Esteem is so they can take quantum leaps.
There you have it. Develop your Self-Esteem daily. Then you will love yourself. This is your best guarantee of success, happiness, and aging gracefully.
Take action now with your Self-Esteem and then, watch what happens!
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What Is Your Perception?
Posted by: | CommentsHow do you see the world? How do you see your community? How do you see your family, your friends, your career, and your life? Each person has their own perception of everything. If five people see the same event, there will be five different perceptions of it.
The first step in our adaptive behavior is how we obtain information about our environment. As we observe everything, we become aware that perception is an active and ongoing process.
Our daily decisions are greatly influenced by our perceptions. Perception is the awareness of objects; consciousness; it is direct acquaintance with anything through the senses. As we experience consequences, based on our decisions, we learn about the intensity of the signals we receive to make our daily choices. Sometimes, the way we perceive things can cause us to make choices that do not serve us or others. We can only perceive one thing at a time. Whatever we perceive with the greatest intensity generally gets our attention. However, we can have many distractions and invitations to make different choices. The more information we have about something, the easier it is to make a decision about whether to move in a particular direction.
Our needs, wants, values, past experiences, and current state of mind affects the clarity of our decision making. Our five senses influence the intensity of our perceptions. At any moment we experience a vast array of sensory stimuli. We cannot attend to all the distractions at once. We can only attend to a limited number of stimuli at one time. The mind can only hold seven, plus or minus two, pieces of information at one time. We always need to make specific selections.
What does the topic of perception have to do with Self-Esteem? It’s simple. Your investment in building your Self-Esteem is influenced by the intensity – the power of your perception. Namely, your efforts to learn and apply these principles, will depend largely on your perception of how unintact or intact Self-Esteem meets your needs, wants and values. Your behavior, and the outcomes you receive, will tell you the clarity of your perception whether your Self-Esteem is intact or unintact.
Observe and evaluate your perceptions from a Self-Esteem viewing point and then, watch what happens!
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