What we’ve
covered:
Your Expectations of yourself are positive.
Your Motivation is internal.
Your Image of yourself is congruent with
your expectations.
Your Direction has specificity.
Your Control takes the form of personal
responsibility for your choices and actions.
Your Discipline includes internal perfect
practice.
Self-esteem. When I taught school as well as when I
worked with various client groups in social services, self-esteem was something
I paid attention to. Some people describe self-esteem as having confidence in
oneself. However, I’ve seen confidence become arrogant, domineering behavior.
To me that person actually has low self-esteem.
What is another way to look at self-esteem? From my point
of view it is simple - I like myself. I see my faults, my rough edges, my
idiosyncrasies, those things about me that I’m working to change and I still
like who I am, who I’ve become choice by choice, experience by experience over,
in my case, decades of life.
Do you?
Do you like yourself?
Do you see how your life experiences, your choices have
created the person you are today?
Can you see the triumph?
Can you acknowledge the failures as learning experiences?
Can you trust there is a way to change if that’s what you
want to do?
If your answers are “no” to any of the questions, why?
Why don’t you?
What would need to be different in order for you to see
the triumphs in your life? To trust you can change if you want to?
One of my favorite people is the late Louise Hay. In her
ground-breaking book You Can Heal Your
Life Louise shares her own story of healing from an abusive childhood, serious
illness, etc. One of her exercises I use to this day is “Mirror Work.”
It’s really very simple:
Stand in front of a mirror, look yourself in the eyes and
say out loud “I love you.”
You can also vary the statement and say words like
“You are beautiful.” Or
“You are so smart.” Or
“I believe in you.”
It can be uncomfortable at first but stick with it. If
you don’t start with “Yes, I know.” because you can barely keep the eye
contact, know that in time you will be able to respond in a firm voice, perhaps with a bit of enthusiasm even “Yes, I know.”
Next week? How
do I see myself interacting with the world around me?
If you are interested in learning a simple process to
find solutions to issues that are interfering with the quality of your life,
check out my latest non-fiction book Staying Sane in
a Crazy World.
Do you
ever feel as if the world around you is tumbling out of control and there is
nothing you can do to make your world a better place?
Do
you ever wish there was?
Staying Sane in a Crazy World
may help guide you toward stopping the tumbling and choosing how to take
effective control of your life.
The
reality is there is no One answer that fits all but we each have Our answer.
In
this short guide, Judith Ashley leads you through a straight-forward process
that allows you to find Your answers. Answers you’ll use to craft a Personal Staying Sane Plan that will
help you regain and keep your balance whenever the world around you is
out-of-whack.
Staying Sane is now available at your favorite e-retailer.
© 2018 Judith Ashley
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