Hello world,
In the so called new normal where COVID-19 is rolling over all screen around the world, we must not forget to pay sufficient attention to ourselves and love once. From my side I went to do some research which I am sharing in this blog item. I do hope that you as reader and follower can find yourself in the different circumstances. I wish you happy reading. It’s all about you yourself and your environment.
FIRST IMPRESSIONS ARE LASTING
If you were raised by parents who continually told you what a good person you were, who loved you, encouraged you, supported you, and believed in you, no matter what you did or didn’t do, you would grow up with the belief that you were a good and valuable person. By the age of three, this belief would lock in and become a fundamental part of the way you view yourself in relation to your world. Thereafter, no matter what happens to you, you would hold to this belief. It would become your reality.
If you were raised by parents who did not know how powerful their words and behaviors could be in shaping your personality, they could very easily have used destructive criticism, disapproval, and physical or emotional punishment to discipline or control you. When a child is continually criticized at an early age, he soon concludes that there is something wrong with him. He doesn’t understand why it is that he is being criticized or punished, but he assumes that his parents know the truth about him, and that he deserves it. He begins to feel that he is not valuable or lovable. He is not worth very much. He must therefore be worthless.
Almost all personality problems in adolescence and adulthood are rooted in what psychologists refer to as love withheld. The child needs love like roses need rain. When children feel unloved, they feel unsafe and insecure. They think, “I’m not good enough.” They begin to engage in compensatory behaviors to make up for this inner anxiety. This sense of love deprivation is manifested in misbehavior, personality problems, bursts of anger, depression, hopelessness, lack of ambition, and problems with people and relationships.
YOU ARE BORN UNAFRAID
The child is born with no fears, except those of falling and loud noises. All other fears have to be taught to the child as he or she grows up.
The two major fears we all develop are the fear of failure or loss and the fear of criticism or rejection. We begin to learn the fear of failure if we are continually criticized and punished when we try some- thing new or different. We are shouted at and told, “No! Get away from there! Stop that! Put that down!” Physical punishment and the withholding of love, possibilities that scare us and make us feel insecure, often accompany these shouts and criticisms.
We soon begin to believe that we are too small, too weak, incompetent, inadequate, and incapable of doing anything new or different. We express this feeling with the words, “I can’t, I can’t, I can’t.” Whenever we think about doing something new or challenging, we automatically respond with feelings of fear, trembling, and a churning stomach. We react exactly as if we are afraid of getting a spanking. We say, “I can’t” over and over.
The fear of failure is the primary reason for failure in adult life. As the result of destructive criticism in childhood, we hold ourselves back as adults. We sell ourselves short. We quit before we even try the first time. Instead of using our amazing minds to figure out how to get what we want, we use our reasoning ability to create reasons why we can’t, and why the things we want are not possible for us.
THE NEED TO BE LOVED
The second major fear that holds us back, undermines our confidence, and destroys our desire for a happy
life is the fear of rejection, and its expression, criticism. This emotion is
learned in early childhood as the result of our parents expressing disapproval
of us whenever we do something they don’t like, or don’t do something that they
expect. As a result of our displeasing them, they become angry and withdraw the
love and approval we need so much as children.
The fear of being unloved and alone is so traumatic for a
child that she soon conforms her behavior to do whatever she thinks her parents
will approve of. She loses her spontaneity and uniqueness. She begins to think,
“I have to! I have to! I have to!” She concludes, “I have to do whatever Mommy
and Daddy want me to, or they won’t love me, and I’ll be all alone!”
CONDITIONAL LOVE
As an adult, a child raised with what is called “conditional
love” (as opposed to unconditional love, the greatest gift one person can give
to another) becomes hypersensitive to the opinions of others. In its extreme
form, he cannot do anything if there is the slightest chance that someone else
may not approve. He projects his childhood relationship with his parents onto
the important people in his adult life—spouse, boss, relatives, friends,
authority figures—and tries
desperately to earn their approval, or at least not lose it.
The fears of failure and rejection, caused by destructive
criticism in early childhood, are the root causes of most of our unhappiness
and anxiety as adults. We feel, “I can’t!” or “I have to!” continually. The
worst feeling is when we feel, “I can’t, but I have to!” or “I have to, but I
can’t!”
We want to do something, but we are afraid of failure or
loss, or if we are not afraid of loss, we are afraid of disapproval. We want to
do something to improve our lives, at work or at home, but we are afraid that
we may fail, or that someone else may criticize us, or both.
For most people, their fears govern their lives. Everything
they do is organized around avoiding failure or criticism. They think
continually about playing it safe, rather than striving for their goals. They
seek security rather than opportunity.
DOUBLE YOUR RATE OF FAILURE
Once an author named by Arthur Gordon approached Thomas J.
Watson Sr., the founder of IBM, and asked him how he could succeed faster as a
writer. Thomas J. Watson, one of the giants of American business, replied with
these profound words: “If you want to be successful faster, you must double
your rate of failure. Success lies on the far side of failure.”
The fact is that the more you have already failed, the more
likely it is you are on the verge of great success. Your failures have prepared
you to succeed. This is why a streak of good luck seems to follow a streak of
bad luck. When in doubt, “double your rate of failure. ”The more things you try, the more likely you
are to triumph. You overcome your fears only by doing the thing you fear until
the fear has no more control over you.
YOUR MENTAL HARD DRIVE
Everything you know about yourself, all your beliefs, are
recorded on the hard drive of your personality, in your self-concept. Your
self-concept precedes and predicts your levels of performance and effectiveness
in everything you do. Because of the law of correspondence, you always behave
on the outside in a manner consistent with your self-concept on the inside. All
improvement in your life therefore begins with an improvement in your
self-concept.
You have an overall self-concept that is made up of all your
beliefs about yourself and your abilities. This bundle of beliefs includes all
the experiences, decisions, successes, failures, ideas, information, emotions,
and opinions of your life up to now. This general self-concept determines how
and what you think and feel about yourself, and measures how well you are doing
in general.
YOUR MINI-SELF-CONCEPTS
You have a series of “mini-self-concepts” as well. These
mini-self- concepts combine to make up your overall self-concept. You have a
self-concept for every area of your life that you consider important. This
mini-self-concept determines how you think, feel, and perform in that area.
For example, you have a self-concept for how healthy and fit you are, and how much you eat or
exercise. You have a self-concept for how likable and popular you are with
others, especially with members of the opposite sex. You have a self-concept
for what kind of a spouse or parent you are, for how good a friend you are to
your friends, how smart you are, and how well you learn. You have a self-
concept for every sport you play, and for every activity you engage in,
including how well you drive your car.
You have a self-concept for how well you do your work, and
for how well you do each part of your work. You have a self- concept for how
much money you make and how well you save and invest it. This is a critical
area. The fact is that you can never earn much more or less than your
self-concept level of income. If you want to make more money, you have to
change your beliefs about yourself relative to income and money.
CHANGE YOUR BELIEFS
In every case, if you want to change your performance and
your results in any area of your life, you have to change your self- concept—or
your beliefs about yourself—for that area. Fortunately, your beliefs are
largely subjective. They are not always based on facts. Instead, they are based
largely on information you have taken in and accepted as true, sometimes with
very little evidence or proof.
The very worst beliefs you can have are self-limiting beliefs
of any kind. These are beliefs about yourself that cause you to feel somehow
limited or deficient in a particular
area. These beliefs are seldom true, but if you accept them as valid estimates
of your ability, they become true for you, exactly as if they were correct.
The starting point of unlocking your potential, and accomplishing
more than you ever have before, is for you to challenge your self- limiting
beliefs. You begin this process of freeing yourself from self-limiting beliefs
by imagining that, whatever they are, they are completely untrue. Imagine for
the moment that you have no limitations on your abilities at all. Imagine that
you could be, do, or have anything you really wanted in life. Imagine that your
potential is unlimited in any way. For example, imagine that you could be
earning twice as much as you are earning today. Imagine that you could be
living in a bigger house, driving a better car, and enjoying a more expensive
lifestyle.
Imagine that you have the ability to be one of the top people
in your field. Imagine that
you are one of the most popular, powerful, and persuasive personalities in your
social and business world. Imagine that you are calm, confident, and unafraid of anything. Imagine
that you could set and achieve any goal you put your mind to. This is how you
begin changing your thinking and changing your life.
The starting point of eliminating your fears, and releasing
your potential, is to reprogram your mental hard drive with new, positive,
constructive, and courageous beliefs about yourself and your future. I really
hope that you learned something more now you have read this blog.
Feel free to drop me your comments and maybe your very own COVID-19 lifestyle experiences. It will be highly appreciated. Thank you in advanced. Stay Safe and Blessings.
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