To boost your self-esteem, write about chapters of your life. In truth, so much of what happens to us in life is random – we are pawns at the mercy of Lady Luck.
To take ownership of our experiences and exert a feeling of control over our future, we tell stories about ourselves that weave meaning and continuity into our personal identity. Writing in the 1950s, the psychologist Erik Erikson put it this way: To be adult means among other things to see one’s own life in continuous perspective, both in retrospect and in prospect … to selectively reconstruct his past in such a way that, step for step, it seems to have planned him, or better, he seems to have planned it. Alongside your chosen values and goals in life, and your personality traits – how sociable you are, how much of a worrier and so on – your life story as you tell it makes up the final part of what in 2015 the personality psychologist Dan P McAdams at Northwestern University in Illinois called the ‘personological trinity’. Updates on everything new at Aeon. 33 Tiny Things That Make People Happy, Even On The Worst Days.
The 7 Step Morning Ritual That Will Make You Happy All Day. We read a lot about this or that morning ritual that will make you productive.
But what about one that makes you happy? Research shows that being happy actually makes you more productive. So let’s kill two birds with one stone and focus on smiles. What’s the first step? Choose to Be Grateful. It Will Make You Happier. 27 Adorable Pictures Of Dog Buddies That Are Best Friends! The-book-of-even-more-awesome-first-20-pages.pdf. Crystal Manu.