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Celebrate
your strengths
Why do you think
you have so few strengths worth celebrating?
- Because
everyone has always pointed out your shortcomings - as you do yourself.
- Because
you rarely get any positive feedback for a job well done .
- Because
the things you do well are so familiar to you that you take them for
granted .
- Because
you have learned to focus only on your mistakes .
Audit
your strengths
- This
is not as easy as it seems because you will have discounted your strengths.
- Find
a good listener to help you review everything you have done.
- Others
may be more objective about what you can do than you can be.
- Discuss
work and non-work projects you have been involved in over the last 5
years.
- Strive
to avoid discounting the other person's attempts to name your strengths.
Regularly
review your strengths
- Make
a list of your strengths and read it to yourself regularly, adding to
it as you go.
- Praise
yourself for what you have achieved.
- Compare
yourself favourably with peers who have not done what you have done.
- Review
your strengths whenever you are feeling particularly defeated.
To help you improve
your self esteem, read some of these other pages:-
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All
pages written by Mitch
McCrimmon, Ph.D. and copyright © Self Renewal Group 1996-2007
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