Self-Enhancement Possibilities

 

  1. HEALTH
o Weight control
o Physical condition: Improve stamina, body shape and tone, vitality.
o Stop self-defeating behaviors: Eliminate drug, alcohol and tobacco abuse; stop avoiding dentist or doctor.

  1. INTELLECTUAL SKILLS
o Reasoning: Spot logical errors, semantic fallacies.
o Analysis: Learn to ask better questions.
o Articulation: Learn to express ideas orally and in writing.
o Information: Acquire knowledge, form opinions based on evidence.

  1. EMOTIONAL SKILLS
o Empathy training: Listen better, increase sensitivity to others’ wants and feelings
o Assertion: Improve communication of feelings, positive and negative, verbally and nonverbally; expressing opinions; standing up for rights.
o Relate to children in a non-authoritarian way.
o Experimental relating: Do opposite of “natural” tendency; choose previously rejected persons; tolerate discomfort.
o Loneliness tolerance training: Gradually increase periods of solitude.
o Rational-emotive therapy: Integrate feelings, beliefs and actions; understand cognitive blocks to emotional well-being and effective living.

  1. SEXUALITY
o Information: You can’t know too much: check truth of commonly held ideas.
o Freedom from compulsions: Challenge ideas behind compulsions
o Remove inhibitions that are self-defeating: express wishes, dreams, desires.
o Experimentation: Vary partners, techniques, circumstances, approaches.
  1. INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES (RECREATIONAL)
o Follow up on long-desired interest or activity
o Intensify current hobby.
o Take up related hobby, sport or pursuit.
o Try several new interests or activities — you may like one or two
  1. SELF-MANAGEMENT
o Cooking and food preparation.
O Home and auto maintenance.
O Bookkeeping, budgeting, and tax records.
  1. SOCIAL SKILLS
o Develop friendships; or enhance intimacy of old ones
o Improve skills in dealing with sex-love partners: Meeting, initiating, attracting, etc.
o Express more affection: See no. 3 above.
  1. CAREER/INCOME
o Investigate potential for advancement.
o Check out other positions, salaries
o Investigate investment possibilities, freelancing opportunities

 

  1. PERSONAL ENVIRONMENT
o Evaluate residence and possessions.
o Dispose of inappropriate items, and acquire relevant ones.


 

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