Why Optimists Can Achieve More

When the worry-hour can be helpful for handling stress (1 minute read) In “When the worry-hour can be helpful for handling stress” continues a summary of my posts on how to recover as quickly as possible from more serious stress and exhaustion symptoms. As mentioned earlier, in my daily work with people who have sought…
Bandura’s concept of self-efficacy is about one’s beliefs about one’s capability to perform specific tasks, independent of the value attached to that act. Self-efficacy has 4 main sources of influence: 1. The most effective way of creating a strong sense of efficacy is through experiences of mastery coming from achieved successes, which build a robust…
Last weeks’ posts have been about how you directly can improve your self-esteem through getting to know yourself. The posts have been about the importance of writing a daily diary about what you stand for, what matters to you, what you are experiencing, thinking and feeling as well as 3 small or big things…
This post continues on the theme of self-efficacy, our beliefs about our capability to perform specific tasks or actions, which also has an important impact on our psychological wellbeing. As noted last week, much research has been conducted on the 4 major psychological processes through which self-efficacy affects human functioning and hence can be increased….
Last week we worked with the timeline. This week we will analyze it for a last time. Take a few minutes and take in your timeline. How does it feel? Can you some unexpected coincidences? Now, ask the following questions: What had changed at the time you have a low and high mark respectively? Did…
This post “Increase your self-esteem by using self-compassion to manage shame” continues with how you can increase your self-esteem by listening to your feelings and heal self-destructive shame. Increase your self-esteem by using self-compassion to manage shame: The following 5 steps based on Compassion Focused Therapy, CFT, aim to heal self-critical shame: Step 1…