This week, we are continuing with Chapter 2. In addition to choosing to take responsibility for our lives, the decisions we make also will influence the degree of success we achieve.
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1. How can you improve the quality of the decisions you make?
2. How can you raise your self-esteem by changing your self-talk?
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A healthy way improve the quality of my decisions is determining if my decisions are going to be for the greater good.
The best way to do that is to listen at your self-conscious, -the conscious is always right- they say. It's this little voice in your head that's always telling you what's right and wrong. This will help you with your decisions that you have to make throughout your life.
It's always helpful if you think in advance of what's going to happen if you make a certain decision. Not like a final destination thought in advance. Because that will just make you a negative person. Just think happy thoughts that whichever decision you have make, it will lead to a better future.
Self-esteem is a whole other subject. Nobody is perfect, nobody has their self-esteem at a 100%, so you shouldn't worry if you feel like you are not perfect.
How can you raise your self-esteem by changing your self-talk?
YOU. You are your worst judge. Learn to accept yourself. What you think about yourself is what you reflect to the outside world. So, try to be positive about who you are.
If the world seems dull, try putting some color on it. If you don't like something, try seeing the good side of things. If you are down, think of the thing that's bothering and work on it. This is pretty much I try to follow for myself. I have the reins, not my inner-negative voice, that's so unlike me, from time to time.
Evangelina Lopez
the most effective way that I have discovered to improve the quality of my decisions is to make them sober choice's, throughout my experience the choice's i have made while intoxicated usually have less then desirable consequence's and yet by some unexplainable science the choice's i make while sober tend to have much more desirable effects!
one way to improve your self esteem through self talk is to put a sentence into a positive sentence rather than negative; such as "I hate how messy my roommate is" to "my roommate is messy but he has some really good quality's like his ability to enjoy himself anywhere he goes".
Ryan Panger
1.You can improve the quality of your decisions by making sure that they will help you out in the long run and by not making stupid decisions that will get you into trouble and hurt your chances at being a successful person.
2. You can raise your self esteem by not thinking about all the negative things in your life and just thinking about the possitive. Or if you think you can't do something, just dont tell yourself that and believe that you can do it.
stephanie Ramstetter
1. How can you improve the quality of the decisions you make?
I think first of all you have to think about the decisions you want to make. You don´t have to think about every deciscion very deep..but for the importent ones you should think about the advantages and the disadvantages, whats good for you and when you make this decisions what are you doing for your friends or aren´t they not includet in your decision? Can you can in truble when you make a deciscion?
Thats why I am think you should think about whatever before you make a decision, because one decision might influence your wohle life.
2. How can you raise your self-esteem by changing your self-talk?
Think positive!! If you don´t like something, for example "I`dont want to do my math homework, it´s to difficult", so befor saying this, you should try to do your math homework and say yourself: "okay, I try to do my math homework now, maby it´s not that difficult, and if I do it now, I´m free for the rest of the weekend and if I don´t understand it I always have my friends to ask them for help" Because if you think positiv for yourself, you can change your self-esteem, because you think positiv about what you can do and what you can reach. If you always think negativ, like "I can´t do it, I´m to bad in it, you are better than me!", you self-esteem will never rais, on the contrary, it will getting less!!
So think positiv what ever you dol, it will help you to reach importent things in your life
Elisabeth Mucke
1. How can i improve the quality of the decisions I make? I feel that a better way to improve decisions is to rationally think them out. If you have plans on the decisions you make like, planning a trip to winter park and back on sunday, you are going to need to plan it ahead. They way I see it is... If you plan ahead and rationally think about what you're going to do, the chances of it screwing up or not going through with it greatly decrease.
2. How can I raise my self-esteem by changing my self-talk? If I have the attitude to talk well about the things I do, i'm basically giving myself more base confidence with whatever i'm doing. I remember back in middle school I use to have absolutely no confidence what so ever. I would say the usual "I can't do this," or "I can't do that" because I just didn't have the self-esteem. I wasn't a very popular kid because i was so negative all the time. It didn't take till sophmore year that just by saying things that were positive could greatly affect how people want to interact you you. I started becoming more confident and would say things that were fun or noble. Suddenly, I began to be a little more popular. People began to talk to me "first" rather than me chasing them. I started making friends and to this day, i've probably made so many I can't really count them all. But I feel that my attitude and self-talk were the reason why people didn't want to hang out with me. Who wants to chill with someone whose always negative anyways? So to raise myself esteem i would have to say that you need to actually DO IT. Go out of your way and do it. Talk like your going to and then act upon it!
Ian Berry (Thanks Tony for letting me use your email)
I feel to improve your descions you have to be determined to make those better descions. Only you have the power to control what you do now. You have to be responsible for your own time management. If you can get yourself organized and create a schedule of when to do certain things, you will have much more success. You don't have your parents giving you curfews and telling you to do things, so you have to take personal responsibility to make those descions on your own and if you are a creator, you will find success.
Raising your self esteem is something I know i really need to work on. You have to believe in yourself and not be a victim thinker. You have to think of alternative solutions to problems rather than just "I suck" There are other options out there. You just have to find them and believe there is a way. Thinking harder and deeper of the right thing to do is the way to go. Basically believe in yourself!
Tony Virgona
There are many ways you could improve the quality of my decisions. One things that pops up into my head, it that I need to take more time and thing about my decisions before I jump to an answer. I have made a lot of mistakes by rushing myself. If i could just be patient and not be in such a rush all the time, my decisions would most definately be better ones.
Self-esteem is something we all have to deal with. To keep our self-esteem up we do a lot of things. I for one surround myself with friends that will help me keep my steem up.
A way to improve the quality of the decisions i make is to become more educated. If i am able to think out what effect is going to come from my decisions i will be able to make a more educated decision. Also if i am able to take emotion out of all my decisions i will be able to make a more rational decision.
I can raise my self esteem by changing my self talk. I kind of feel like that is a redundant question. Isn't the end of that question also the answer to that question? Watch... How can you raise your self esteem? By changing your self-talk. Anyway changing my self talk to saying things like my backflips look sick instead of questioning it and having doubt in myself will raise my self esteem because I will not be judging myself as harshly. By not judging myself i gain confidence because im not telling myself that i am not amazing.
Eric Ballard
I can do a lot to improve the quality of my decisions. One way is by not having a bias decisions . Another way is to be will educated about my decisions so I can make sure that I am going to be making the right choice that will benefit me the best. You can raise your self-esteem by thinking positively and rationally. If you think the cup is always half full you will become a positive person and your decisions that you make will come out better then a negative persons decisions. Also if you think rationally decisions will have a more possitive outcome.
Anna catherine belle ogden
I can improve the quality of the decisions I make by running each decision through my own self-conscious, my own personal convictions and ideals, along with my faith. For example, for my past two biology quizzes I have mainly studied on the nigtht before the quiz and for small increments beforehand. During these times, I said "I will study tonight to due well for the test tommorow," when I should have said days before that "I will study in small increments every day before the test, and use all my notes, vocabulary, readings, every resource at my expense to succeed on these quizzes and to have a solid understanding of all biological concepts." Overall, I can affect the quality of my decision making by making positive decisions of substances that entail endless reservoirs of benefits.
I am mentally slower and often percieved as extra-peculiar by those around me for common reasons that I understand far too well. Many times I have felt lonely over the years, ostracized due to my own weaknesses and others treatment. So to better my own self-talk and improve my overall self-esteem, I can combat the voices of my own negative attitudes and trade in personal words of discouragement for statements of hope and potential. Instead of saying I'm stupid, I can say "I am relatively smart for being handicapped." Instead of saying, "I'm too slow and homework is all I ever can do with my time," I can say "Yes, homework takes a long time for me, but what could I do to make it a little less of a burden." Instead of saying, "I have no friends," I could say "I have friends, even though many of them are a thousand miles away," and that "I can have more friends if I learn to be a friend to new people on a consistent basis." Overall, positive pep-talk can go a long way for me if I can continue to enforce it and if it continues to be a part of my everyday life.
Great work ya'll!
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Thank you - SW
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