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- Better self-esteem: Effective change comes from within (1 minute read)Better self-esteem: Effective change comes from within (1 minute read) This post Better self-esteem: Effective change comes from within continues with how to improve your self-esteem by making changes in your life. Last posts have been about how to improve the chances of reaching your goals. There must be a personal realization and insight about why it is necessary to change, since all change creates some kind of discomfort making it easier not to change but to stay the same. This post continues with how you can improve your self-esteem by making changes in your life. The last post has …
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- Better self-esteem: Effective change comes from within (1 minute read)Better self-esteem: Effective change comes from within (1 minute read) ‘ This post Better self-esteem: Effective change comes from within continues with how to improve your self-esteem by making changes in your life. Last posts have been about how to improve the chances of reaching your goals. Better self-esteem: Effective change comes from within Often when a person comes to therapy it is someone else who thinks that the person needs to change: the employer, spouse or the referring doctor. That is not going to be enough to make lasting changes, since effective personal change has to come from …
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- Better self-esteem: Important questions regarding if the timing of the planned changes is right (1 minute read)Better self-esteem: Important questions regarding if the timing of the planned changes is right (1 minute read) This post Better self-esteem: Important questions regarding if the timing of the planned changes is right is about how to improve your self-esteem by making changes in your life. Last posts have been about how to improve the chances of reaching your goals and improve your self-esteem. Better self-esteem: Important questions regarding if the timing of the planned changes is right Unexpected stress or difficult life events might make it necessary to reassess your goals. However, they should not be used as …
- Better self-esteem: Important questions to evaluate your goals (1 minute read)Better self-esteem: Important questions to evaluate your goals (1 minute read) This post Better self-esteem: Important questions to evaluate your goals is about reassessing your goals. Last posts have been about how to improve the chances of reaching your goals, more specifically, the importance of: -rewarding also partial achievements -having patience and a realistic time-line, since change takes time to achieve on a deeper level -avoid trying to make large changes in life when stressed, but instead make the source of stress the main target. Better self-esteem: Important questions to evaluate your goals At the same time, stress or …
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- Better self-esteem: To experience a difference you have to start doing something differently (1 minute read)Better self-esteem: To experience a difference you have to start doing something differently (1 minute read) Last posts were about the importance of expecting changes and making adjustments to achieve your goals when unexpected events occur. At the same time, stress or difficult events that affect you should not be used as an excuse for not taking responsibility for your life and your future. Better self-esteem: To experience a difference you have to start doing something differently This post Better self-esteem: To experience a difference you have to start doing something differently is about the importance to make necessary …
- Better self-esteem: Why it is important to have a realistic sense of time (1 minute read)Better self-esteem: Why it is important to have a realistic sense of time (1 minute read) Last post Better self-esteem: Why it is important to have a realistic sense of time was about the importance of expecting changes and making adjustments to achieve your goals. Also, it is important to keep in mind that other factors might impact the outcome and therefore have to be dealt with. Better self-esteem: Why it is important to have a realistic sense of time Change takes time to achieve on a deeper level – from 3 weeks for behaviors up to 2-3 years …
- Better self-esteem: How timing impacts the possibility of reaching your goals (1 minute read)Better self-esteem: How timing impacts the possibility of reaching your goals (1 minute read) This post Better self-esteem: How timing impacts the possibility of reaching your goals summarizes earlier posts about important considerations when it comes to how you can increase your self-esteem by achieving your goals and improve your life. Better self-esteem: How timing impacts the possibility of reaching your goals Last posts were about the importance of revising goals, being patient, rewarding achievements and having a realistic understanding of the time-line. This is important since change takes time to achieve on a deeper level – from 3 …
- Better self-esteem: 4 components that help you achieve your goals (1 minute read)Better self-esteem: 4 components that help you achieve your goals (1 minute read) This post Better self-esteem: 4 components that help you achieve your goals summarizes earlier posts about how you can increase your self-esteem by achieving your goals and improve your life. Changes do not happen by themselves. We are often run by habits, which is energy conserving, and hence usually an effective strategy to use. 4 components that help you achieve your goals Therefore, to be successful in achieving goals that involves changing our habits, we need the components mentioned in earlier posts: 1 Create SMART goals, …
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- Get better self-esteem by celebrating your goals (1 minute read)Get better self-esteem by celebrating your goals (1 minute read) This post Get better self-esteem by celebrating your goals continues with how you can increase your self-esteem by achieving your goals and improve your life. Get better self-esteem by celebrating your goals It is important to give yourself a reward for each achieved interim goal and a big reward when the big goal is achieved. Often, we forget to celebrate and acknowledge what we have achieved, especially if we have not yet completed every single dimension as we had imagined. Instead, we are often far too though on ourselves …
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- Better self-esteem: 4 strategies to remember your important goals (1 minute read)Better self-esteem: 4 strategies to remember your important goals (1 minute read) This post Better self-esteem: 4 strategies to remember your important goals continues with how you can increase your self-esteem by achieving your goals and improve your life. Better self-esteem: 4 strategies to remember your important goals: As previously mentioned, there are many possible explanations for why we often lose track of our goals and new behaviors. Strategy 1: Existing routines: One way of circumventing this is to have daily reminders of your goals and related behaviors. This is especially effective in the morning – preferably connected to an …
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- Better self-esteem: Why we easily forget our important goals (1 minute read)Better self-esteem: Why we easily forget our important goals (1 minute read) This post Better self-esteem: Why we easily forget our important goals continues with how you can increase your self-esteem by achieving your goals and improve your life. Last post was about why it is difficult to change habits, behavioral patterns and hence realize your goals. One reason is that we humans simply forget our new goals when life moves on as usual. Better self-esteem: Why we easily forget our important goals There are many possible explanations for why we often lose track of our goals and new behaviors. …
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- More questions to ask when evaluating and adjusting your goals (1 minute read)More questions to ask when evaluating and adjusting your goals (1 minute read) This post More questions to ask when evaluating and adjusting your goals continues with how you can increase your self-esteem by achieving your goals and improve your life. Step 8 is about identifying helpful routines to maintain focus on you desired changes. To manage unforeseen problems, it is important to regularly schedule a fixed reflection time every week to evaluate progress made and make necessary changes. More questions to ask when evaluating and adjusting your goals Here are some more essential questions you can ask yourself …
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- Better self-esteem: Important questions to ask yourself when evaluating progress and adjusting your goals (1 minute read)Better self-esteem: Important questions to ask yourself when evaluating progress and adjusting your goals (1 minute read) This post Better self-esteem: Important questions to ask yourself when evaluating progress and adjusting your goals continues with how you can increase your self-esteem by achieving your goals and improve your life. Step 8 is about identifying helpful routines to maintain focus on you desired changes. To manage unforeseen problems, it is important to regularly schedule a fixed reflection time every week to evaluate progress made and make necessary changes. Important questions to ask yourself when evaluating progress and adjusting your goals …
- Better self-esteem: What is required to change habits (1 minute read)Better self-esteem: What is required to change habits (1 minute read) This post Better self-esteem: What is required to change habits continues with how you can increase your self-esteem by achieving your goals and improve your life. Better self-esteem: What is required to change habits Step 8 is about identifying helpful routines to maintain focus on you desired changes. To manage unforeseen problems, it is important to regularly schedule a fixed reflection time every week to evaluate progress made and make necessary changes. Having regularly evaluations is one of the things that distinguishes those who succeed in making changes …
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- Better self-esteem: More about step 8 – Evaluate and adjust your activities and goals every week (1 minute read)Better self-esteem: More about step 8 – Evaluate and adjust your activities and goals every week (1 minute read) This post Better self-esteem: More about step 8 – Evaluate and adjust your activities and goals every week continues with how you can increase your self-esteem by achieving your goals and improve your life. Better self-esteem: More about step 8 – Evaluate and adjust your activities and goals every week Step 8 is about identifying helpful routines to maintain focus on you desired changes. To manage unforeseen problems, it is important to regularly schedule a fixed reflection time every week …
- Better self-esteem: Step 8 – Schedule fixed follow-up routines (1 minute read)Better self-esteem: Step 8 – Schedule fixed follow-up routines (1 minute read) This post “Better self-esteem: Step 8 – Schedule fixed follow-up routines” continues with how you can increase your self-esteem by achieving your goals and improve your life. Better self-esteem: Step 8 – Schedule fixed follow-up routines Step 8 is about identifying helpful routines to maintain focus on you desired changes. During a change process, it is common to encounter unforeseen problems, bumps in the road. In order to prepare for this, it is important to develop strategies to manage them. One of the most overseen but fundamentally …
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- Better self-esteem: Step 7 – Take steps towards your values and defy any obstacles (1 minute read)Better self-esteem: Step 7 – Take steps towards your values and defy any obstacles (1 minute read) This post Better self-esteem: Step 7 – Take steps towards your values and defy any obstacles continues with how you can increase your self-esteem by achieving your goals and improve your life. Step 1 – evaluate your life in 10 important life areas Step 2 – select your 2-3 prioritized development areas Step 3 – identify the desired qualities and expectations Step 4 – identify obstacles Step 5 – identify actions and steps you can take today Step 6 – identify and describe …
- Better self-esteem: Step 6 – Describe your ideal values (1 minute read)Better self-esteem: Step 6 – Describe your ideal values (1 minute read) This post Better self-esteem: Step 6 – Describe your ideal values continues with how you can increase your self-esteem by achieving your goals and improve your life. Step 1 – evaluate your life in 10 important life areas Step 2 – select your 2-3 prioritized development areas Step 3 – identify the desired qualities and expectations Step 4 – identify obstacles Step 5 – identify actions and steps you can take today Better self-esteem: Step 6 – Describe your ideal values Step 6 is about Identifying and …
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- Better self-esteem: More about step 5 – start now with activities that mirror your goals (1 minute read)Better self-esteem: More about step 5 – start now with activities that mirror your goals (1 minute read) This post “Better self-esteem: More about step 5 – start now with activities that mirror your goals” continues with how you can increase your self-esteem by achieving your goals and improve your life. Better self-esteem: More about step 5 – start now with activities that mirror your goals Step 5 is about identifying actions and steps you can take already today. It can be actions that reflect you in your desired future or steps toward concrete goals that will help you …
