One of the issues that can stymie your personal growth and cause significant discomfort is the tendency to undervalue yourself and create roadblocks that prevent you from achieving your goals. Stop putting yourself down is a main message of this article. It’s easy for many of us to begin believing that we are worthless and worse than other people. Your self-esteem can become damaged when you persuade yourself that you can’t do something. This can consequently, and over time, have increasingly detrimental effects on many aspects of your life. Remember that you spend the majority of your time with yourself in your own mind. It can be challenging for you to feel good about yourself and develop into the person you want to be if you treat yourself poorly, fail to consider your own needs and feelings, and continue to punish yourself.

Stop doubting yourself and creating mental barriers if you want to develop and grow.

Here’s a bunch of tips to help you stop undermining yourself.

1. Open your Mind

Changing your perspective of yourself can be a major step to stopping self-defeating behaviour. To begin with, it’s crucial to assess your level of mental rigidity. When something happens, do you really consider all the potential outcomes, or do you tend to view the world more from an all-or-nothing viewpoint?

You will be able to view yourself differently and avoid being your own judge if you are aware that there are multiple perspectives, possible outcomes, and versions of events.

2. Beware of Perfectionism

It’s normal to want to do things right, but the issue arises when you go too far. You can’t excel in every endeavour. People make mistakes, and these errors provide growth opportunities. If you constantly strive to do everything perfectly, you might eventually become overwhelmed with demands, which causes ongoing dissatisfaction and a lot of stress. So while it’s okay to have a degree of healthy concern, it’s risky to let your failures rule your entire world. Perfection isn’t always so perfect.

3. Evaluate Yourself

Examining yourself objectively and doing so without passing judgment on yourself is another way to stop doubting yourself. It is best to do this by carefully considering why some things aren’t going well for you and what issues you are currently facing. To know what to do, you benefit from first knowing where you are. In addition, it is wise not to overly concentrate on the negative. After doing so, consider what you want out of life and what you can do to achieve it. In other words, make plans of action and set goals.

4. Know Your Worth

You won’t succeed if you exclusively base your value on how well you get along with other people. Nothing you do for others is likely to be sufficient to give you the desired level of value and appreciation. Understanding your value should come from within. Not how much of yourself you give away; rather, how you treat or expect to be treated defines your value.

On the other hand, if you depend on others to constantly comfort you, lift you up, and make you feel successful, you are less likely to learn the skill of developing your own sense of worth. Your sense of self becomes overly dependent on other people if you gauge your value based on how important others think you are.

5. Change Your Inner Dialogue

Improve your internal dialogue to boost your self-esteem and sense of self-belief. Quit telling yourself that you’re not good enough or that you need to keep proving your value. On the other hand, you may experience disappointment if your expectations are unmet and you only feel worthy when others go out of their way to appease you. You’ll perhaps feel empty, irritable, and demanding as a result of that.

6. Exercise

Everybody benefits from exercise. It can have an anti-depressant and anti-anxiety effect upon many of us to start. It encourages a good attitude and makes you feel good about your physical appearance. Not liking how you look is a fast way that many lose self-confidence.

Make a commitment to working out a certain number of times per week, and do your best to get outside. When you step outside, it shakes you out of your routine and makes you conscious of how wonderful life is, how beautiful this world is, and how much you have to be grateful for.

7. Be Happy for Others

Because they are content with their own lives, careers, and interpersonal relationships, people with healthy self-esteem don’t often feel jealous or envious of others. They are content with the person they have become. Be joyful for others and their well-being. Your life will be fundamentally altered by this change, and you will only experience happiness as a result.

Have faith that there is enough success, happiness, and love for everyone. Your self-image and sense of security will no longer be threatened by other people’s success or happiness once you realise there is no such thing as lack. Your worth as a person is up to you.

8. Find Balance

Start prioritising your own needs more – especially if you usually prioritise others’ needs over your own. You give yourself the sense of importance you so desperately want to receive from others when you put yourself first. On the other hand, if you constantly expect others to put you first and take care of your needs, you are less likely to learn the vital empathy required to maintain strong relationships. Find a balance between what you can reasonably expect from others and what you need to do for yourself.

9. Eat Healthy

Your brain is fed by what you put in your stomach. Your stomach is often referred to as your second brain because of how neurochemically similar it is to the brain. Eat well if you want to feel good and be happy.

Give your brain the nutrients it needs to stay healthy and happy. Consume a lot of vegetables and water. Consume low-fat proteins to give your body the fuel it needs for a happy mood, productivity, and lasting energy.

10. Allow Others to be Themselves Around You

You become controlling if you are needy, insecure, entitled, or demanding. When you have control over others, you run the risk of frightening, abandoning, or engulfing them, which compromises their freedom. You won’t need to make demands if you love yourself because your needs will already be met. You will now be simpler to work with and for. When you allow people to be who they are, they will respond to you more positively.

11. Don’t Give Up

The most effective way to undermine your success is to give up. If you give up before you succeed, you will never succeed in anything. Even though it would be so easy to give up before you succeed, give yourself one more chance. Make it a point to always finish what you start. When you’re about to learn whether you were successful or not, resist the urge to give in to your fear.

12. Learn how to Prioritise

Listen, we all want to spend our time doing enjoyable or novel activities! But guess what? In order to get the really important ones out of the way, sometimes we just have to get to work. You don’t want to put off visiting the dentist, only to discover four years later that you are missing a couple of your teeth, do you? Make a list of the things you need to accomplish each day in order of importance. Work your way down your list starting at the top. Don’t cut corners. Don’t postpone tasks until the following day. Additionally, crossing something off your to-do list feels fantastic!

13. Don’t Be Negative

Many people find that their negative thoughts increase as they get closer to success. Imposter syndrome really exists for some of us! Everyone believes they lack the necessary skills, but guess what? Everybody does! Do you recall when you were younger and believed that adults had all the answers? Boy, were we mistaken! That’s okay, too! Take charge of your thoughts and focus on ideas that will benefit you. Instead of berating your actions, remember to encourage yourself. Keep your mind’s ramblings to yourself. You are not required to interact with your irrational thoughts. You can decide to disregard them. Having faith in oneself.

14. Stop Being Indecisive

Decide what you want! Being indecisive can sometimes destroy success! As already mentioned here, nothing will be perfect, and if you wait for that time to come, you’ll often regret not taking the risk later in life. Though harsh, take this seriously! Why hold out any longer? What do you actually desire? Be specific about the goals you have in mind.

Not making decisions purely on impulse is a good way to help you with your indecisiveness. Some people choose to act impulsively rather than going through the difficult process of making a decision because they are too exhausted to consider all the possible outcomes of their choices. Making a decision quickly is acceptable; in some cases, it is preferable to making no decision at all. However, it’s preferable to give it a little more thought if you have a history of making poor decisions based on impulse.

Another good way to cope with indecisiveness is not overthinking the outcomes of your decisions. Weigh them up sensibly, but don’t dwell unnecessarily.

15. Stop Procrastinating

The task itself may be simple most of the time, but the mental stress of delaying it can accumulate and worsen until it is worse than the task itself! Here is how you can stop yourself from procrastinating.

The idea of finishing one big task can frequently seem overwhelming. It may seem impossible to get from start to finish. However, it can be helpful to divide these tasks into much smaller steps. Making a list of manageable, small goals can make it easier for you to work on them one at a time and achieve them all. You can achieve these small objectives by having a basic understanding of project management.

The point is related to the one above. You can stay motivated to accomplish your main goals by creating a detailed schedule with deadlines for when you will complete each of your smaller goals. In addition to setting daily goals, you can also tie together weekly and monthly objectives. This gives you the motivation to move quickly and accomplish your goals, whether they are related to work or study or your personal life.

Concentrating on some of the simpler tasks you need to complete is another method for overcoming procrastination. Hopefully, you’ll be able to find the tasks that are simple to complete by setting small goals and organising your workload. You’ll start to develop your confidence and pick up some steam if you do this. You can accomplish one small task at a time by giving yourself a purposeful focus.

Lastly, be easy on yourself and learn to forgive yourself. It’s simple to punish yourself for putting off tasks. You might tell yourself that you’re being ineffective or lazy. In reality, doing this to yourself doesn’t increase productivity; it just makes you feel more frustrated and anxious. Being aware of the circumstance allows you to practice forgiveness and self-compassion. Being kind to yourself not only helps you avoid procrastinating in the first place, but it also helps you avoid some of the consequences.

Read this article for more on this topic: How to Stop Procrastinating.

Final Word

You are in charge; you don’t need to influence others; look within. Although it requires plenty of effort and introspection, it is simpler to change oneself than another. Every day, you are faced with the person who determines your successes and failures.

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