Discovering Your Full Potential by Strengthening Self-Image

Do you ever wonder how your self-image might be holding you back from achieving success, cultivating meaningful relationships, and reaching your goals? Would you like to learn how to strengthen your self-image through reading and association with successful individuals? Join us in today's episode as we delve into the powerful impact self-image has on our lives and how we can take control of it to become the best version of ourselves.

We'll discuss the importance of having a strong, positive self-image and explore the story of two wolves, emphasizing how what we feed will ultimately win. Furthermore, we'll tackle the age-old question of whether it's more crucial to be admired or liked in relation to self-approval and the approval of others. By the end of this episode, you'll have a better understanding of how to lead your own life, grow your self-image, and harness the power of consistency, positive action, and positive self-talk for lasting success. Don't miss this opportunity to transform your self-image and unlock your full potential!


Book Reference

• The Magic of Thinking Big
• What Do You Stay When You Talk to Yourself

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Transcript

Strengthening Self-Image Through Reading

Greg Hunt 0:23

Welcome , welcome , welcome back to train the mind , not the brain , podcast . I'm your host , Greg Hunt , and I have a great topic to talk about today and it's about self-image and how reading can help strengthen your self-image . This is a huge topic because , to me , self-image is everything and how we view ourselves . More support , because the way we look at ourselves affects a lot of things that we do . It could affect us to success . It could affect us when it comes to failure . It could affect us when it comes to relationships . Self-image is a really important thing that you want to have , a good , positive self-image that you really want to have , especially to have success in life in general . In my opinion , one of the biggest reasons why some people make it or don't make it is because of their self-image . It's because what they believe in themselves , or maybe what somebody told them , and they believe that and it might not be accurate information , it may not be true , but they take it on as if it was true and they don't have the success that they want . So we're going to really dive into talking about self-image and how reading can really help support your self-image and grow your self-image , because reading can really help raise the level of your self-image by some of the books that we may read , because it's things about you that you may never share with anybody else . But as you read books and you find yourself , you start to have more confidence in yourself because you start to get information that gives you that belief that you start to think to yourself you know what I can do it , i can make it , i can have things that I want because of your self-belief . One of the toughest things we have to deal in life is that thing , that brain , that 12-pound brain . That's one of the toughest things that we have to deal with in life because of the way we program myself and we program our self-image to believe certain things of our self , either good or bad , and that , like I said before , can really affect our success , our relationships , our goals , our dreams because of our self-image .

Greg Hunt 3:33

Now , if you've been at the same place or same position for a while , you are probably exactly where you should be based on your self-image , and your self-image is dictating where you're going to be at in life , and that's why it's so important that you want to have a strong , positive self-image of yourself , because your productivity , your success , all of that , that's a connection or reflection of your self-image that they tie in together . I can tell when I look at somebody or I have a conversation with somebody by the things that they say and the way they may do things or say things . I can tell them right away if they have a strong self-image about themselves . Now I want you to understand this . I want you to understand two important things that you need to know about self-image . One self-image that controls you . Self-image can control you . By number two , you have the power to control your self image , and that's where you're going to start to see growth , where you understand that you have the power to change the way that you believe about yourself .

Greg Hunt 5:11

And one of the ways that you can help strengthen your self image is through books , through association . There's some great books out there that can help you with your self image . One come to my mind is what do you say when you talk to yourself ? by Dr Shad Hamsteller . That is a phenomenal , phenomenal book . How do you recommend reading that ? And also , association Being around successful people . As we all heard before , birds of a feather flock together . Successful people hang around successful people . Broke people hang around broke people , but you never see a broke person teaching somebody how to be successful or how to be wealthy , because they can't . They only can teach you from where they at . So association is key , reading is key , and we're going to talk about a little bit later how you put those two things together so you can have growth .

Greg Hunt 6:24

Now , in my opinion , those are the secrets , or part of the secrets , in strengthening and growing your self image . Why ? Because they have the power to influence your self image in a positive way , because what you're putting into your mind As they're all saying , garbage in , garbage out , so you put good stuff in your mind , good stuff going to come out , and which that creates an environment for you to take control of yourself image instead of your self image taking a control of you . Now , when you hear people say , well , i don't need a read book , i don't need to associate with people , those people probably needed the most And I probably will stay away from those people that do not want to continue to educate themselves , because they probably have a low self image of themselves And that's why they don't want to continue to educate themselves or continue to be around somebody , somebody that's going to stretch them or challenge them in a positive way , so they can , so they can take control of their life and they can have the self image that they need to have whatever success that they want .

Greg Hunt 7:51

So let's take a step back and talk about , just like , the definition of self image And what I found it says what you believe about yourself , the attitude and expectation you have of yourself that influence your behavior . And that is so true And , like I said in the beginning , it's all about yourself , belief , what you believe in yourself , and we're going to talk about some things that you can do to help grow your belief in yourself and have great expectation and great positive attitude about yourself . So which that can influence your behavior . Because if you look at any great athlete , i would bet that they had a great positive self image , a strong self image about themselves , which allow them to then do some of those phenomenal performances on the field or on the court because of the self image , because they believe in themselves . They believe in themselves as winners , they believe in themselves as they the best that's out there . They believe in themselves that , no matter what they're going to win , and that's because of the self image that they have And that could come from a lot of different ways to grow yourself image , and we're going to talk about that .

Greg Hunt 9:23

We'll tell you how this all come full circle when you have a positive belief about yourself , a positive expectation about yourself , because your image , that attitude , change your expectation and then your attitude and expectation affects your actions , which then affects your self image . So , based on what you do in that circle , you can actually circle up , spiral up or you can spiral down . But it's based on what you do in that circle and if you're not doing the things you need to do or reinforce the positive self image of yourself , you can easily spiral down and spiral out of control . But also , on the flip side , having a strong self image , a strong belief in yourself , a strong attitude , strong self talk , a strong belief , you can easily also spiral up in a positive direction . Now what I found the ?

Greg Hunt 10:45

the original source of self image usually come from some type of programming , and programming could come from different places . For example , your programming could come from your parents and their expectations of you , the teachers , your family , your friends , your community , even comparing yourself to others . Well , if you know , truth be told , there's no comparison , there's no need to compare yourself with others , because everybody has been made uniquely for themselves , for their life , to do what they need to do for their life and not necessarily have to compare themselves to others . You are made as your own individual , but it also could be from your environment who you're hanging out with , your experiences in life some success , some failures , and the book The Magic of Thinking Big . The author talked about Dr David Schwartz . The author talks about the fear of failure , the fear of success , like all of these things can actually affect your self image . But I want to talk about some things that can also help yourself image , because one of the most important things when it comes to programming is the belief that you can or the belief that you cannot , and either way you're gonna be right . But things that you can do to strengthen yourself image is just kind of recapping reading reading positive mental attitude , books , associating with the right people , a positive self-talk , because you know meditation . It's a lot of different ways that you can do to strengthen your self image . I remember

The Importance of Self-Image

Greg Hunt 12:55

this .

Greg Hunt 12:55

This question was asked to me one time from this very successful gentleman that I know and he said to me would you want to be admired or would you want to be liked ? and I had to think about that for a second because he explained to me . He said if you want to be admired , you value self-approval . If you want to be liked , you value the approval of others . And then when he said to me , i really sat back and thought about that to be my , to be liked and to be my , you just you know that . You know your worth , you know your value . You don't have to necessarily have to have somebody else tell you you are worthy , you are made for greatness . You already had that self-approval versus want to be liked , that people like you , and trying to please everybody . So if you want to have success , you want to be admired . Now I know sometimes you know people worry about what someone else may think or what somebody else might say . But you got to ask yourself are you gonna be led as a self led ? or , let me rephrase it , are you gonna be self dictated led ? What I mean by that ? Are you gonna lead your own life or are you gonna allow others to dictate your life ?

Greg Hunt 14:48

I will highly recommend that you want to be self led , that you want to be self dictating of your life and you have the power and the choice to do whatever you want , especially when it comes to all your self image . And it's more about who you're gonna listen to . Are you gonna listen to that positive side or the negative side ? I'll tell you this quick story . It's about a story about the two wolves , and we had a good wolf , a bad wolf . And a bad wolf is just destroying everything . Negativity want to just kill off everything . The good wolf is positivity , preserving life . And I remember the one gentleman asked his grandfather between the two wolves , which one wins ? and the grandfather said the one that you feed the most wins . So what are you feeding ? Are you feeding that positive wolf or that negative wolf ? And I hope you're feeding that positive wolf because you had the choice to dictate your life , or automatically you allow somebody else to dictate your life , and your life is too important to allow someone else to have control over your life , And that's why you want to grow your self image or leave in yourself , because you are worthy , you are somebody , somebody believes in you , you are made for greatness .

Greg Hunt 16:37

So your self image controls you , but you can rise above that . You can control your self image because your success will never surpass the level of your self image . And we repeat that your success will never pass the level of your self image . And if you want to make some changes in your self image self image you got to make the changes . Nothing change until you change . And we know people that have a high level success movie stars , athletes they have a high level success but they all come crashing down because their talent and ability they get them to a level but their self image and character cannot sustain And most people were even salad and tired their success to stay in that comfort zone . Instead of growing that comfort zone , growing your self image , so they can have the things they want in life , they can have the success . Now nothing , and I mean nothing , cannot keep you or deny you from getting to whatever level you want to grow your self image . You just got to get out your comfort zone . You just need to do the things that you need to do .

Greg Hunt 18:09

Your actions does affect your self image . But I heard I heard this message one time from somebody's very successful . You say your self image is in parallel with your consistency . The consistent action and a pursuit of a worthwhile goal enhances emotional stability and strength . Now , in that , strength and stability comes with along with that consistent action that allows you to create that space to build and grow your self image . So understand how important that is and that's why I talk about .

Greg Hunt 18:53

You know , reading . Reading is one part of going yourself image , but you can't do that alone . Action is another part of going yourself image by doing some positive things , by saying positive self talk . That's another part of it , but you have to do it together to grow yourself in , because if you do it together , you have that action . You're reading books . You will grow yourself in image tremendously and self image , to me , is one of the key elements to anybody's success and if they really want to change their life , change yourself image , change the way you look at yourself , change your belief system , because you can do it . You are worthy of anything that you want . You just got to believe that you can have it . You just got to change the way that you think about yourself that you are great , and I know it might take some time , but keep believing it will work out for you and the best is yet to come . Hey , i just had a couple thoughts on self image . I hope you enjoyed that . Keep on keeping on and until next time , stay in the hunt .