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Self-doubt is something I have struggled with for years on end until I cracked and had enough.
By then I had already had arguments with family members, hindering my relationships with them and a nervous breakdown.
Also started to suffer from chronic depression.
By then I had already had arguments with family members, hindering my relationships with them and a nervous breakdown.
Also started to suffer from chronic depression.
Self-doubt is the little voice in your head that tells you "you can't" or "that's not good enough" or "you look stupid".
It will consume your valuable time and focus and create fear within you.
It will consume your valuable time and focus and create fear within you.
By the time you manage to work through your problems and complete your tasks you'll already know you could have actually done better.
What you first need to understand is what causes self-doubt.
What you first need to understand is what causes self-doubt.
1. Past events
E.g. Setting your own standards too high, or even things that have happened in a past relationship, or simply someone else's critical reactions to you.
All of these batter your self-esteem and eventually if you focus on them your opinion of your self lowers.
E.g. Setting your own standards too high, or even things that have happened in a past relationship, or simply someone else's critical reactions to you.
All of these batter your self-esteem and eventually if you focus on them your opinion of your self lowers.
2. Early life as a child.
Your early years are vital to the development of your internal attitudes and beliefs.
As you are so impressionable if you are raised in an environment of high criticism and expectations you will undoubtedly render your self worth lower.
Your early years are vital to the development of your internal attitudes and beliefs.
As you are so impressionable if you are raised in an environment of high criticism and expectations you will undoubtedly render your self worth lower.
3. Environment
Things like a low socioeconomic status, patents' employment status and school performance play a role in how you think of yourself.
You often think of what other people think of you and believe it to be true, this is what you continue to tell yourself.
Things like a low socioeconomic status, patents' employment status and school performance play a role in how you think of yourself.
You often think of what other people think of you and believe it to be true, this is what you continue to tell yourself.
4. Imposter Syndrome.
This is when you constantly doubt your skills and accomplishments in life and create fear in mind that others will discover you are not in fact deserving or qualified to do something.
Usually when going into a new job or starting a new business.
This is when you constantly doubt your skills and accomplishments in life and create fear in mind that others will discover you are not in fact deserving or qualified to do something.
Usually when going into a new job or starting a new business.
Moving on to how you can overcome self-doubt.
I am a firm believer that writing in a journal all of your feelings and thoughts is a fantastic way to release your emotions and negative associations.
This then frees up space and brain power for the good stuff and positives.
I am a firm believer that writing in a journal all of your feelings and thoughts is a fantastic way to release your emotions and negative associations.
This then frees up space and brain power for the good stuff and positives.
Stress is a common trigger to doubt. By being in your mind and noticing when you are becoming stressed through headaches, grinding teeth, muscle tension and sleeping patterns you will be able to immediately release those stresses.
Stress levels go
self-doubt goes .
Stress levels go
self-doubt goes .
Social media is a common cause of self-doubt.
Your opinion of yourself i.e. self esteem is manipulated by the highlight reel of everybody else's lives.
People who workout for a living or travel/promote branded goods, even friends only posting the highs and never the lows.
Your opinion of yourself i.e. self esteem is manipulated by the highlight reel of everybody else's lives.
People who workout for a living or travel/promote branded goods, even friends only posting the highs and never the lows.
Your expectations are what form reality.
So by focusing on incompetence and inability you will form this.
The mind is extremely powerful.
Anything you can picture, it will actively look for clues of and find them.
It is vital that you shift your focus to favourable outcomes.
So by focusing on incompetence and inability you will form this.
The mind is extremely powerful.
Anything you can picture, it will actively look for clues of and find them.
It is vital that you shift your focus to favourable outcomes.
