Our Personal Development and Self-Esteem
impacts all aspects of our life.
Personal development is an ongoing process. In the
process, a person learns to identify his or her own skills & strengths by self-reflecting
within self. Every person needs to build & develop a healthy self-Esteem
and recognise his or her own thoughts & belief system. We need to be able
to identify our expectations from ourselves.
The following points are some of the key
elements of personal development.
- Taking full
responsibility for your life
- Knowing
yourself and loving yourself first.
- Taking your
own decisions and honouring them.
- Overcoming
perfection and leveling up your self-worth
- Giving up
Guilt & to stop listening to your inner critic.
- Stopping
running away from your problems.
- Eliminating
spending time with the wrong people and creating a positive
- environment.
Broadly speaking Personal development can be classified
into two categories, personal and professional. At the personal
level a person’s emotions, conflicts etc. are associated to that individual’s
family, friends & relatives. Whereas at a professional level it relates
to job satisfaction, job security, conceding with colleagues & compromising
our values with that of the management. At both levels a person needs to mitigate
the situation in his own unique way.
In personal development, self-efficacy &
self-esteem is crucial. Self-efficacy is a person’s trust and
self-belief in his or her ability and competence to accomplish a specific goal
or a task. Now Self-efficacy could be high or low depending on each individual. Whereas,
Self-Esteem is your overall sense of personal value and self-worth. Again self-esteem
could be high or low.
How can you improve your Self-Esteem?
- Eliminate
negative self-talk.
- Accept
yourself as you are, recognize and work to your strengths.
- Stop
comparing yourself to others and level up your self-worth.
- Admit your
mistakes and accept rejections with grace.
- Use criticism as feedback for
improvement.
How Can you improve your Self-Efficacy?
- Develop new skills
and make it ongoing practice.
- Connecting
with a mentor, coach or a guide and asking for specific & constructive
feedback and working on development.
- Reinforce
your self-belief.
- Be
accountable to your actions and use verbal persuasion from a mentor, coach or a
guide.
Acceptance
of ourselves and of others is an essential aspect of Personal Development. Don’t
compare, nobody is better than you, because you are enough. Be a good learner,
learning and making the most from experiences. Learn to say no without feeling
guilty. Give up dwelling on the past or worrying about the future. Make a
difference!
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