Sci 162

Sci 162

  • Submitted By: AQHASHOWMOM
  • Date Submitted: 01/10/2012 6:12 AM
  • Category: Science
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How may a positive mind-set help individuals overcome life’s challenges?
Have a Positive Outlook on Life.
Let's focus on how a positive mind-set can help individuals overcome life's challenges. There are just some people in the world that cannot look past all the negative clouds in their mind. If you cannot get past the negative and start looking at the positive than you will never be able to achieve your goals.
A positive mind-set can help you as an individual grow and develop skills and techniques to work towards your goals. Let's face it. You have goals right? Do you see yourself accomplishing things and having happiness and energy? Let's push past the excuses. Let's focus on putting your life out there and risking it for success.
First things first the key to having a positive outlook on life is that you have to have a healthy self-esteem and self-confidence. The self-esteem is the part of your self-concept that evaluates self-worth. Your self-concept is relatively stable set perceptions you hold on yourself. Many people have low self-esteem issues due to many reasons. Some people compare themselves to the rest of the world. Some people let the people they surround themselves with influence their abilities to change. Reflected appraisal is a mirroring of the judgments of those around him or her. When you receive support and encouragement from significant people than that is when you start to appreciate yourself. Life Lesson: you are an individual and have your own special purpose. You control who is in your life and who is not. It is time to take charge of your life and get rid of those who are bad influences or are negative around you. You are better off in the end and more likely to succeed if you surround yourself with supportive people. It is time to work on that self-esteem.
Self-esteem works two ways. The positive and negative cycle the positive cycle equals high self-esteem and you have positive thoughts such as "I can do this." Or "I did a...

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