Are You Ready to Release Your Addiction to Approval?

approval-seeking behavior

How do you know if you are struggling with approval-seeking behavior? If you feel stuck in your personal and/or professional life, it may partially be due to approval-seeking behavior or an “addiction to approval.” Are you reliable? Flexible? What about caring, confident, and assertive? Do you play well with others? Whether the approval of others…

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What Is the Motivation Behind Your Decision-Making Process?

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Do you know the truth behind the decision-making process? Have you ever thought about what motivates you to take action? If you’re like many people, you may respond with overarching ambitions like success, happiness, or self-fulfillment. Maybe when it comes to decision-making you have specific goals aligned with these generalized aspirations. Do you want to…

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Here Is Your Ultimate Guide to Self-Motivation

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Have you ever thought about the role self-motivation plays in your everyday life? Self-motivation is the ultimate driving force behind your behavior. And the science of motivation has taught us it’s possible to influence your level of motivation. Most often, adults are more motivated by internal influences. When you have a healthy and natural sense…

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Ready to Start Building Strong Self-Confidence?

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Why do some people seem to have all the strong self-confidence? The self-assured colleague, the optimistic best friend, the sibling who has it all together: Do you ever feel surrounded by people who seem to have all the strong self-confidence? Doesn’t it sometimes seem like they’re just sailing through life on their buoyant self-worth, while…

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Be a hero…be your self!

Happy 4th of July Weekend!

“Not everyone can be a hero!” That is why being a hero is so special. Saving a person from a burning house requires an instant decision – helping an old lady cross a street with crazy traffic and no lights happens at the spur of the moment. Being a hero is not something you can…

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What happens generally to a scientific truth?

What do you think? Would the following quotes apply to the Sense of Self Method? All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (1788 – 1860) Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck, (23 April 1858 – 4 October…

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Do You Have a Healthy Sense of Self?

The Dutch version of our site, now on Facebook: Gezond Zelf-Gevoel

Hooray! We now have a Facebook Page in Dutch! It took a while but here it is for the Dutchies among us. Make sure you are the one to give it its first like! This is a good reason to explain once and for all what a Healthy Sense of Self actually is. Here we go!…

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Your life is not supposed to be a performance.

It was a good performance – but did you truly LIVE? Theater is fantastic but remember, it has its place. Your life is not supposed to be a performance, but it may have become just that anyway. We all have certain notions of ourselves, about all the things we feel we never became really good…

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