Self-Knowledge and Self-Esteem Exercises
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ScribdTranslationsÉva Drazsdik: "The importance of self-knowledge - self-esteem"
What are self-awareness exercises?
What does personal luggage include?
Your work, educational, and personal history
Your personal reality (the family, the neighborhood)
Your strengths and your weaknesses
Your interests and preferences
Your opinions
Self-knowledge exercises
Managing your time...
Think about a day in your life... How do you organize yourself to complete the tasks you set?
previously? Write in a planner what activities you do daily,
even those that may seem insignificant at first glance.
The wall of yourself
In the two lower rows of bricks, you have to put the seven things or the seven achievements that stand out the most.
values of your life. This includes personal and professional, at your choice. In the two rows
superior bricks you must list the seven characteristics that, in your opinion, are the best of
you.
Key questions
What do I feel are my greatest strengths?
What things do I enjoy doing with all my soul and heart?
What things do I hate doing in life?
What qualities do I admire in other people, and why?
What activities do I spend my time on daily?
What would I decide to do if I had all the time and money in the world?
What activities do I engage in naturally and spontaneously?
Who is the person that has positively impacted my life and why?
What have been the happiest moments of my life, and why were they?
What is my internal dialogue like and what does it say?
What are my dominant thoughts?
How many times a day do I dedicate my mind to thinking about my goals?
When I daydream about myself, what do I imagine I am doing?
If I could rewrite my story, what things would I add and what would I take away?
What are the three or four most important things to me?
In my work, what activities do I consider most important?
What is it that you do better than anyone else?
What skills do I have that no one else has?
What are my physical needs and capabilities?
How satisfied am I with the achievements I have made so far in my physical area?
Do I consider myself a happy person?
What makes me feel happy?
Do I often visualize myself in possession of the things I desire?
How satisfied am I with the achievements I have reached in my life up to today?
What is my current quality of life?
What are my values?
What are my life principles?
What principles have created a good quality of life for me?
What negative habits of my own do I wish to change?
Am I an introverted or extroverted person?
If I were given the opportunity to choose my job, how do I want it to be, the type
from work, my office, my colleagues?
Do I like and enjoy the work I am currently doing?
When I do my daily work, I get so involved in it that I lose track of time.
And I even forget to eat, or I'm desperate for the time to leave to arrive?
Do I work for love of money or for love of the talent I possess?
What are my fears, and why?
What are my social needs and capabilities?
How satisfied am I with the achievements I have reached so far in my social life?
What results am I currently obtaining in my life?
What unwanted results am I currently experiencing in my life?
What are my paradigms?
Whatwouldyoureallyliketobeanddoinmylife?
Think deeply and answer each of these questions in the most sincere way. This will help you.
to create an exact portrait of yourself, with what you can do without fear of making mistakes, a well-designed plan.
your measure to achieve the life you desire.
Self-esteem
What is self-esteem?
It is theconceptof the Self and Self-Esteem
develops gradually throughout life,
starting in thechildhoodand going through various
stages of progressive complexity. Each stage contributes
impressions, feelings and even, complicated
reasoning about the self. The result is a
generalized feeling of worth or incapacity.
A central aspect for development of the
Self-esteem is knowledge about us
the same. The more we know, the more possible it is.
wanting and accepting our values. While the
goals are basic to give meaning to life,
they havecostsin effort, fatigue, wear
frustration, but also in maturation, achievements and
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balanced, constructive, honest people and
constants, it is more likely to develop
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allow them to develop with greater possibilities
success, boosting self-esteem.
Self-esteem exercises
Exercise 1
Write:
5 things you approve of about your physical image.
5 things about your personality that you like. It could be your kindness, your ability to listen, your
discretion, your generosity, your kindness, your friendliness, your intelligence, your perseverance... If you are not
nothing happens, think about the things you value in others and reflect on to what extent you do too
you possess those virtues.
Exercise 2
Look for a picture of you when you were small, almost a baby. Hold the photo for a few moments in the
hands and, looking that child in the eyes, commit to take care of them and not allow them to be disqualified or
torturing him by saying things that hurt him. Review how you speak to yourself in your dialogue
interior and modify it in a way that you are much more tolerant and indulgent with that wounded child.
you carry within you.
Exercise 3
At the end of each day and for at least thirty days, write the end of these sentences:
Today I felt good about myself because...
Today I did something good for myself when...
I like myself more when...
I am beginning to realize that I have the virtue of...
Although I have made a mistake, I realize that...
Exercise 4
All human beings have intrinsic value by the mere fact of being people. People do not
they are valuable not for what they have, but for what they are. You are as worthy of respect, affection, and care as
any others. Write: "My most important needs are..."
Exercise 5
Learn to say NO. If other people try to impose their will on you, you can choose to say
No. When you are about to say no, maintain eye contact to inspire determination. Then respond with
kindness, brevity, and firmness. If you have other alternatives, offer them, but do not engage in
negotiations.
Exercise 6
Pay special attention to your achievements and value them. If you focus on your positive aspects, you will win.
In self-confidence and your abilities will grow. Meanwhile, if you focus attention on your mistakes, each
You will feel more insecure at times, which will cause you to make more mistakes.
Be aware that it's worth improving your self-esteem, practice these simple exercises and
You will see how, in some time, with your persistence, you will be delighted to have met yourself.
and you will discard the 'I am worth nothing' to replace it with 'I am worth a lot.'
Exercise 7
Make a list of all the things you have dreamed of becoming since you became aware.
(firefighter, astronaut, millionaire, ninja, etc.) Write it all down without shame, it will just be something that
it will remain between you and a piece of paper that you can then destroy; make sure not to let any slip away
dream no matter how silly it may seem to you at this moment.
Exercise 8
Write down what your 10 greatest achievements are. Try to make them true achievements, remember well.
If you really can't find something that you consider a worthy achievement to be told, write.
something simple like 'having completed secondary school without any rejections' or 'having scored the goal of the '
"Tiebreaker at 13 years old," it is preferable that you have simple achievements rather than considering that you have no achievements.
Exercise 9
Haz una lista de 10 metas importantes para este próximo año. Pueden ser metas pequeñas pero que
they can be a prelude to major changes in your life, they can also be radical decisions, but try
that there are only 10.
Exercise 10
Make a list of 25 things that you like and make you very happy. Some questions you can ask yourself
son: What makes you laugh? What thing awakens your tenderness? What are those things you look forward to?
Great thrill when they anticipate them? What would be the ideal reward after a day of hard work?
Exercise 11
Write some of your beliefs, philosophies, or theories that guide your life. What do you fight for?
world? What is really important to you? What are you loyal to? For what cause would you be
willing to die?
Exercise 12
If you could travel back in time and visit yourself on your seventh birthday. What gift of
What birthday would you celebrate? What gift would you take to the eighth, ninth, and tenth birthday?
Exercise 13
If you were in the largest library in the world that has all the books ever written, what books
Would you ask to read?