"We lift ourselves by our thought. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your view of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere."
--Orison Sweet Marden, 1850-1924, Author and Founder of Success Magazine
Do It Yourself
How do you see yourself in your mind's eye? When you think about yourself or get an image of yourself, do you value what you see?
Image Who You Want to Be
One distinguished way of becoming who you want to be is to begin to image yourself as you want to be in many separate life situations. For example:
o Who do you want to be when person is attacking you or criticizing you? How do you want to respond?o Who do you want to be when animated events occur in your life? How do you want to respond?
o Who do you want to be concerning honesty and integrity?
o Who do you want to be concerning your supervision of time?
o Who do you want to be concerning the club of your living and work environment?
o Who do you want to be concerning the health of your physical body - how you eat, how much you exercise, how much sleep you get?
o Who do you want to be concerning the way you treat other people, especially loved ones?
o Who do you want to be concerning how you think and feel in your everyday life?
o Who do you want to be concerning your spiritual life?
Holding an image of "the ideal of yourself as you long to be," as Marden states in the above quote, is an prominent way of animated yourself toward your ideal. It is not adequate to think of yourself in these ways - you need to nothing else but image yourself as you want to be. Originate slight videos in your mind's eye of these separate situations in your life, looking yourself as you want to be.
Look for Role Models
Think about the citizen in your life, or citizen you know about, or even film characters, whom you admire. It is important, in creating your inner images, that you find role models of citizen behaving in the ways you admire. Then put yourself into those images, looking yourself behaving in these admirable ways. Thoughts and images are very distinguished in changing feelings and behavior.
All of us have been programmed to sass to the animated situations in our lives by our experiences as we were growing up. You will continue to sass with your self-operating programmed responses unless you consciously rule to reprogram yourself. Consciously creating thoughts and images about who you want to be is a form of reprogramming. Since you have practiced your old programming your whole life, it takes an ongoing conscious effort to Originate new responses. This is why Marden, in the above quote, states that you must "Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere."
We each have the free will and the power to become who we long to be, but it will not happen without conscious and continuous effort. This kind of convert does not just happen, nor does it happen quickly. If you decided to learn to play a musical instrument, you would know that you would need to practice, practice, institution in order to become proficient at it. Becoming who you want to be takes just as much, if not more, practice! Why not begin today creating the images of who you want to be and start practicing them?
Self-Esteem - Who Do You Want to Be?
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