WHAT IS SELF-ESTEEM?
Good self-esteem is the basis of personal success. It is essential to develop a healthy personality.
It gives us the inner strength necessary to overcome personal difficulties, face the failures and problems that life brings us and progress in our maturity and personal competence.
COGNITIVE DISTORTIONS
Cognitive distortions are:
- They are bad thinking habits that we often use to understand reality in an unreal way.
- They are instruments of pathological criticism against my self-esteem.
- They are evaluating and inaccurate, since they only show one side of the issue.
- They are based on emotional processes, not rational.
Practical exercises: They’re looking at me!
HOW TO IMPROVE MY SELF-ESTEEM
We propose several practical exercises that will be very useful for you:
- “My skills and weaknesses: 4 steps”
- Day by day.
- Two actions for today.
- My goal of the month.
SELF-CONCEPT
Inventory of the concept of myself.
Write down 3 aspects that you like and 3 that dislike your appearance, your way of interact, your personality and your professional competence.
Complete all sections. Think well what you write, not generalize, look for concrete and evaluable aspects.
HOW DO YOU RATE YOUR LEVEL OF SELF-ESTEEM?
The Self-esteem Test will help you reflect on yourself and get to know yourself better. Analyze your way of thinking about yourself and your self-esteem.
Depending on the results, we recommend a series of exercises to improve the different aspects that make up Self-esteem.
BELIEFS
A belief is an idea or an interpretation of reality that is considered true by one who professes it without stopping to analyze its degree of truthfulness.
Beliefs are unconscious and a powerful influence on your behavior and your life without you noticing. For example: