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Personal Growth Quiz: Test Your Level of Self-esteem
Author: Lynn Pierce
If you were fully aware of how you talk to yourself and talk to the world about who you are, you’d be shocked. We’re all guilty of this to some small degree, but for many their self-talk is debilitating.
Take a minute to answer these questions:
Are you talking yourself out of living your fullest life with the self-concept you’ve created?
Who do you tell yourself you are with your self-talk?
Which of the following scenarios is closest to your self-talk? Maybe you are saying to yourself, “This is the year I’m going straight to the top,” “This is the year I become a superstar,” or “I’ve got everything going for me and this is my year.” Or you could be telling yourself, “Things don’t look like they’re going to be much better this year; in fact it might be a little worse than last year,” “Maybe it’s time for some belt tightening; I don’t want to take any chances,” or even “You never know what could happen, better to be safe than sorry.”
Is there any doubt in your mind which of these examples shows the confidence that will build self-esteem, and which are the ones that demonstrate low self-esteem?
Here are a couple more personal development questions in follow-up:
Which type of self-talk creates a better atmosphere for personal success and living an abundant life?
What do you think is the difference in income and professional development between people with these two types of self-talk?
What goals do you think each of these people possesses?
Who is having more fun and excitement?
Who do you want to be?
Your level of self-esteem sets the personal success bar for everything about you. Every decision you make is filtered through your self-concept. Your self-concept is the out-picturing of your self-esteem.
Take a look at just eight reflections of your level of self-esteem:
1.Your career choice
2.Your friends
3.Your primary relationship with another
4.Your level of income
5.Your home
6.Your car
7.Your free time and hobby choices
8.Your vacations
Changing what you believe about yourself will change your life in an instant.
Build self-esteem and you will build your self-concept. But, your self-concept requires attention and care to be maintained. It’s not as simple as saying you feel good about yourself and that’s the end of it.
Do you know that your self-talk comes at the rate of a magazine page of text every single minute of the day? That’s a lot of talking to yourself! If you fill your mind with positive input, it’s a pretty good bet that most of your self-talk will also be positive and foster personal and professional growth.
Use this personal growth quiz to become aware of your self-talk. By changing what you say to yourself and transforming what you believe about your personal success, you will automatically build self-esteem.
Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/self-help-articles/personal-growth-quiz-test-your-level-of-selfesteem-400673.html
About the Author
Lynn Pierce, the Success Architect, has taught people how to combine
business and personal development to reach the pinnacle of success and live
the life of their dreams for over 25 years. In addition, she is also the
founder of one of the most exciting annual events for women entrepreneurs,
³Women¹s Business Empowerment Summit². Now she shares her keys to success
and life mastery with you. You can get the first five lessons of “Change One
Thing, Change Your Life: A Personal Transformation System” at
www.YourBreakthroughToSuccess.com
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We are interested in having the option of technical training or certification at the moment, I was going to pursue college for Liberal Arts and Sciences later on. The hobbies we like to engage in together are outdoors activities such as fishing, hiking, canoeing, and hunting. We have also shared a history of playing soccer. Personally, I enjoy water sports above all else. I have also taken on yoga and martial arts. I am also an occasional artist and foodie.
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I am making a powerpoint presentation/slideshow at work and need some funky backing music. It will be approx 5-6mins long (this is flexible though) and probably be played on a continuous loop. I’d like to use a couple of songs if possible and preferably newish or well known songs.
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http://www.ipixsoft.com/sllideshow-song-suggestions.html
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