Counteracting Limiting Beliefs: The Best Strategies for Changing Unhealthy Habits and Achieving Personal Goals
In my experience, personal change or growth is not a linear path; instead, many starts, fallbacks, and sidetracks lead nowhere.
Of course, there are successful efforts to change or alter your course, but it is often hard to determine whether progress has been made. Ratifying or validating the change is sometimes tricky. Not consistently, of course, as with weight loss or smoking cessation. With these changes, the reality of success is immediately apparent and hopefully welcomed.
However, these psychic or emotional changes are hard to pin down when the change sought is fleeting or hard to define, such as improved self-esteem or a greater sense of worthiness.
Personal development is the deliberate process of looking inward and improving ourselves. I have long sought to improve my sense of worthiness. I have made progress, but I often wonder: Despite all my efforts to change personal habits, have I changed that much?
These feelings came about recently with retirement age; I am now 83, and it is a suitable time to assess my accomplishments. This has led to the question: what have I accomplished, and do I value those achievements?
