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Day 16 – Try a Social Media Fast to Boost Self-Confidence and Banish Your Inner Critic
Social media can be awesome. Catching up with friends and family, seeing photos of their vacations, and reading about their milestones in life can be fun and exciting. Unfortunately, it can also come with some negative effects, including lowering your self-confidence. It’s so easy to unfairly compare yourself to others and let your inner critic …
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Day 15 – Get a Second Opinion About Those Critical Thoughts
Your inner critic gains a great deal of its strength specifically because of the fact that it’s internal. These are the messages you’re giving yourself, and sometimes your view can be skewed. It’s hard to see the best in ourselves, especially when our negative self-talk doesn’t ever seem to let up. That’s when it might …
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Day 14 – Don’t Let Your Inner Critic Compare You to Others
Your inner critic can be fueled by a number of sources, both internal and external. Such negativity doesn’t need much of a spark in order to rage out of control. Comparison to others is one trigger that can cause insecurity and negativity to spiral. Perhaps such comparisons are a problem for you, too. Looking outside …
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Day 13 – Silence Your Inner Critic by Staying Busy and Making Progress
Your inner critic is loud. That internal voice sure can tend to drown out every other message you send yourself or receive from those around you. During this challenge, we’ve discussed several ways to quiet your negative self-talk. It’s my belief that the more tools you have at your disposal, the more likely it is …
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Day 12 – Boost Your Confidence by Exploring What You’ve Already Accomplished
When your inner critic beats you down over and over again with negative messages or when life throws you multiple curveballs, it’s easy to lose faith in your abilities. You may feel like you can’t do anything right or that you don’t have the competency to succeed. It’s hard to overcome this mindset when you’ve …
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Day 11 – Stop, Drop, and Roll – Don’t Allow Negative Thoughts to Spiral Out of Control
You now know that self-criticism can easily become a habit that feeds upon itself. Once you start telling yourself negative things, it’s hard to stop. Fortunately, as I’ve shared in previous posts, there are a number of ways to recognize and counter the mean things you tell yourself. Today, I’d like to teach you another …
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Day 10 – Refute Your Inner Critic by Taking Action
Sometimes the best thing you can do to silence your inner critic is to take action. As Nike says, “Just do it.” I realize it’s not that simple, but taking some proactive steps or making the slightest change can be the catalyst you need to break free of your mean inner dialogue. When you physically …
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Day 9 – The Importance of Paying Attention to Your Inner Dialogue
As you’ve learned so far, your inner critic can really hold you back. Once you start to internalize the messages your fear and doubt give you, it’s easy to fall into a pattern of avoiding anything that seems too difficult or scary. You truly can break this pattern. The key lies in learning to manage …
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