Wednesday, January 25, 2012

How to deal with your most important relationships and boost your self growth

How do we deal with our most important relationships and boost our self growth?
We have many different relationships in our lives; they all provide us with a variety of experiences. The importance of the different relationships varies with the value it has in our lives. The relationships referred to are those with family and friends, work colleagues, peer group and the general public. There are no hard and fast rules as to how much value we place on each of the relationship and will vary depending on the individuals concerned and how the relationship has developed overtime. However, regardless of the state of each of these relationship the most important one is the one with yourself. That is the one that governs all other relationships, how you interact with them and directly affects your personal growth and self improvement.

Everyday of your life you communicate with yourself, sending messages, thoughts and information; how you deal with those communications is a measure of how much value you place on yourself. This is proportional to your self esteem and confidence. If you continually send yourself derogatory messages where you are 'beating yourself up' your self esteem and confidence will take the same battering. This will result in low self esteem and confidence. You may well receive similar messages from your other relationships, however they will be low in number compared with those you send to yourself. Meaning the messages you receive from yourself will have a greater impact on your life.

If you continually sending yourself negative messages this will have a detrimental effect on your lifestyle keeping you low on energy and drive. The negative messages being referred to doesn't just mean your self talk it also includes your devaluing of the compliments and other praise you receive. This behaviour will suffocate the positive messages and communications from all other sources. If feel you are short of positive messages from others then the most favoured action is to provide them yourself; you are the best source of positive comments.

Spend less time on your faults and take anything you call a failure as a positive learning experience; then concentrate on your positive features and play them up. Treat yourself to a special reward when you achieve your goal; don't undermine your achievements. You've work hard to accomplish them.

It is possible to learn how to be positive but only if you choose to learn and decide that's how you want to be. Your self growth will benefit from any personal development you decide to undertake. If you are unsure how to go about achieving a positive state of mind start by recording your achievements and successes in a journal diary or blog diary. This will provide you with an opportunity for review and add value to your personal development plan.

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