The power of knowing your worth
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): The National Youth Internet Safety and Cyberbullying Task Force, Inc.
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018
The immediate empowerment of yourself may come from the knowledge of your worth. This does not mean an excuse for undue self concern or absorption. Nor does this imply the unwarranted self assessment of being better than other people.
It may be true. However, what is the probability? The real power in knowing your worth comes from realistic assessment of yourself. You need to know your strengths. You need to know your weaknesses. You should understand the basis upon which you were able to perform well in the world.
You should also know the ways in which you do not perform as well. On the ways to perform well, you should make a steady effort in maintaining excellence there. On the ways to perform not well, you should work to ameliorate the problem areas as you can. It is never easy.
Nonetheless, the focus on strengths will be the greatest asset in your life because your strengths are where fewer people perform well.
This can lead to questions about personal worth. Your worth should be grounded in something. If you have an idea about yourself, and if the idea is simply theoretical, it detaches you from the real world. You can lead an unhealthy life because you lead a false one with it.
Worth should be grounded in something. In particular, your worth should be grounded in things of lasting value, which do not necessarily equate to the more temporary things such as beauty and popularity. As you leave high school, and college, the looks and popularity will become less and less important as intelligence, conscientiousness, and morals become more important. In general, the best thing to inculcate in yourself and others, and if you have children then those, is character for a long and good life.
Your worth should be grounded in character. My main advice about the power of your worth comes from knowing that you have worth and something that will last throughout your lifetime, which is your own character. You may not be the smartest. You may not be the prettiest or most handsome. You my not be the richest. You may not have the most status. However, if you have character, you can earn the love and respect of others, which will outlast, often, many of the more transient things of a person, of yourself. In that, you can find power and longevity of that power.
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