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‘Motivate Yourself to Success’ by Marc Sanders

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19. How to Enhance Your Self-Image

With the passage of time, you grow through different phases of life with prominent physical changes. In the same way, you need to undergo changes in your inner-self to build up your self-image. This self-image is different from your personality as the latter is your projection of yourself to the outside world.

However, self-image is how you look at yourself and thereby present your image to the world.

Self-image is a more discreet way of viewing yourself. You respond to different happenings and events according to your self-image. If you have a back-dated image, you respond to present events according to what you were in the past.

However, if you have a modern outlook, you tune in with the times and project a livelier look. You make an image of yourself as viewed by people around you. More often, you behave and change according to circumstances.

Slowly, your self-image becomes a culmination of all behaviors and your personal attitudes. Nevertheless, you can changes your self-image by choosing different inherent traits within your image. You can enhance your self-image by imbuing various positive qualities. Humility ropes in rewards from all sectors of people you deal with. It also creates perfect balance between self-image and self-esteem.

Try to erase all negative traits in your self-image. These could be present due to your interactions with people with negative thoughts, either now or earlier.

You can gear up for a changeover by developing new interests, new languages and developing relationships with new people. Although initially, it requires Copyright  2005 Marc Sanders