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WHAT MAKES UP THE SELF CONCEPT?
Habit and imagination play an important role in reconditioning the mind and they are
immensely more powerful than logic and willpower.
When you learn to change your self-image deliberately, you’ll behave and perform more to
your satisfaction that you ever have before. You can change your personality and the
outcomes in your life by changing your mental images.

SELF CONCEPT

THE SUM OF THE THREE PARTS

SELF IDEAL SELF IMAGE

THE PERSON YOU WANT TO BE THE PERSON YOU REALLY ARE
HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT THE GAP

SELF ESTEEM

If your self-ideal is how you ideally see yourself, and your self-image is how you actually see
yourself, your self-esteem is how you feel about the gap between the two.
Let us assume for a moment that the ideal way you see yourself weighing two stone lighter than
you actually do. The two stone lighter weight is your ideal self, your real weight is your image of
self as you actually are. In this example, your self-esteem is represented by how you feel about
that two stone difference! How you feel about yourself as you are right now.

Look at the key areas of your personality, your confidence, your appearance, your fitness, your
abilities, how you are loved by others. It is the difference between how you would like to be and
how you see yourself that determines your level of self-esteem.

If you see yourself ideally as a person who is loved and respected and you feel that you are
neither loved nor respected as much as you deserve, then your self esteem will suffer. If you see
yourself in excellent physical condition with good health and a positive outlook and in fact you
are in peak condition, with abundant good health and positive perspectives, it is likely that in
this area your self esteem will be high.

The importance of your self-esteem cannot be understated. It is A key to your happiness and
personal effectiveness and represents the foundation of your performance in all areas of your
life, relationships, career performance health, finances, in fact every key area of your existence.

Your self-esteem is the fuel for your personality and enthusiasm that powers your
accomplishments in life. Self esteem is the emotional part of your personality and as human
beings are predominantly emotional in their decision making and behaviours, the remainder of
this section will focus on this very important area in detail. Self-esteem is our belief that we have
value and potential.