3 PRINCIPLES OF A WINNING SELF-IMAGE
To move on to your next level in life, business or ministry, you need the cooperation of your inner self. You need to configure your self-image for progress. Self-image is the personal view or mental picture that a person has of himself or herself. It’s the person that you see when you look into the mirror. There may be obstacles around you that are trying to limit you but none can ever compare with the obstacle within – a low self-image.
Here are three important principles to help you develop a winning self-image:
1. Man is a slave to his self-beliefs
What a person believes about himself dictates his behaviour and directs his life. Self-beliefs are the sum of subconscious opinions or tenets a person has, which add up to his/her overall self-image. Whether you think that you are a success or that you are a failure, you are right. We tend to do everything within our powers to defend and conform to our beliefs about ourselves.
2. Success is relative
Success is simply attaining a set goal. What amounts to success for one person may not be applicable to another. Lionel Messi may not be a good Tennis player but that doesn’t mean that he is a failure. Everybody’s gifts and handicaps are different. You need to find out your own strengths, define what is success for you, set your own goals, lay out your own tracks and run your race.
3. Self-image can be improved
You don’t have to perpetually remain a victim of low self-image. You can change the course of your life by changing your self-beliefs. We tend to believe whatever we keep hearing. So, you can change your negative self-beliefs by changing what you keep hearing about yourself. You can change what you keep hearing by changing your negative environment and surrounding yourself with positive people. Most important of all, you can find out what your Creator says about you and just believe it.