We are born without any preconceived idea about ourselves. As we grow older, we gain experience with ourselves, with our surroundings, and with others. We perceive our bodies and begin to develop ideas about ourselves that impact our lives.
There are six important Development levels, if achieved can lead you to achieve your goals.
Positive Body Image : This is how you perceive your physical self- the mental picture and ideas you have about your body size, shape, strength,coloration,features, and so forth. It begins to develop early in life and evolve over time. Body Image can be negative, positive,accurate or inaccurate. particularly as we form or perceive this image in comparison with others and in relation to cultural fashion ideals of what is considered attractive and what is not. Some steps which can enhance your Body image:
- Explore your personal body image with its strengths and limitations
- Confront thinking distortions related to your body
- Challenge misleading assumptions about body appearance
- Accept and love who you are
- Be comfortable with your body
- Have positive experience and positive affirmations with your body
Positive Self-Image: This is how you perceive the combination of all of your characteristics, your physical self including body image, your psychological or mental self including values, attitudes, personality, talent and abilities, your social self including roles and occasions .It is the mental picture you have craved about your inner self and your outer self that is, how you look and how you behave. It is how you judge yourself as a whole. This can also be positive,negative,accurate or inaccurate, especially as we rely on feedback from others in forming our self image. Some steps to cultivate positive self-image:
- Define personal realistic and measurable goals
- Stop comparing yourself with others
- Remember that you are unique
- Learn to laugh and smile
- Remember how far you have come
- Develop your inner strengths
- Give positive affirmations
Self-Esteem :This is how you feel about yourself, your feelings and sense of self-worth based on self-image and the amount of esteem others have for you. Social approval and acceptance play a significant role in the development of self-esteem. A positive body-image or self-image , combined with positive response from others, can increase self-esteem.
Self Confidence: This refers to your belief, trust and reliance on yourself- your appearance, skills and abilities you can count on to meet your needs. Here you empower yourself mentally and physically to face any situation with utmost faith. Higher the self esteem, higher the confidence.
Self- Competence: This refers to specific abilities you possess and skills you have mastered. Like body image, self image, self-esteem, self-confidence and self competence can be seen as cyclic because one influences the other. When confident in yourself, you are better able to develop talents, skills and abilities that in turn instill more self confidence. Competencies move you towards self actualization and the accomplishment of you goals.
Self- Actualization: This is based on the root word “actual” and refers to the process of making something actual or real – the process of bringing something into reality. It refers to the use of your resources and abilities in way that maximise your potential to achieve your goals. Self actualization is the top most need in Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs,that means “What man can be, He must be”.
Start climbing each step one by one and you will see yourself on the top in no time, But the most important of all is you take initiative in understanding how important it is to work on this ladder in order to achieve your goals in life.
Taking Initiative is a form of Self Improvement – Stephen Covey
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I do agree with the tips you shared for reaching up to your goals and I must say positive attitude and self-confidence is the key
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very interesting.. quite like Maslow’s hierarchy theory that ends at self actualization. positive attitude self love are the key to happiness
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Ya very true
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Wow! Very well-researched post. Mention the source links so we can read further about this topic. Thank you so much for writing this post.
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hi ..the source is my certification in image management..if you need to know more with example will help you out, have done enough research and have hands on experience.
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That’s awesome. Would love to know more. Lets connect … looking forward
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Such a informative post I actually did an introspection and analysis. I will definitely put them into practice. The links are very helpful too.
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Really glad that you liked it
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Wow great post dear and you had incorporated all important aspects that helps in achievement of goals. on personal level, I think self confidence and having a positive self image is key that help you a lot in achieving the things that you actually want to achieve in your life.
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Oh, wonderful, this is something really interesting. Thanks for sharing about the development levels and how we can work on improving those levels to achieve our goals.
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Amazing good to go with post even believe self confidence is really important to reach our goals a nice write up..
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Very insipration and feel good post. I really loved it, esp how confidence plays an important role in shaping you up. Keep inspiring
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Attitude takes it all. We must not underestimate our own capabilities. Understanding that makes setting goals easy.
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What we want to see us as highly depends on how we perceives ourselves. I liked and agree with the levels you suggested!
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I am absolutely feeling inspired reading this article. I completely agree with the fact that our success and goal achievement relies on how we perceive ourself.
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I have yet to get to the top 2. I have all the others. But I guess it takes years and good foundation to achieve these goals at a young age.
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well said, these are some great points you have raised. self-actualisation is the key to understand self and accordingly work on to improve and achieve your goals
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I loved the tips you mentioned Swati, they are so vital in aiding us march unhindered towards our goals., great read .
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You have mentioned some very good pointers. I totally believe in this, positive body image, positive thoughts self-confidence are all important to thrive in life.
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Never that positive body image and positive self image plays key role in building our personality and help in achieving our goals
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Such an important post, we need to understand these pointers, ponder over it, strategize rightly and then plan to achieve our goals..
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Thank you for this article that have really given me a goal to understand the flaws of my life I have to work on those self-esteem and self-confidence thing
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Incredible points. Solid arguments. Keep up the
good work.
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