How you see yourself will determine how you act and react, and will also determine how others will see you. The image you have created to others will make them respond to you in the same manner. If you create the image and impression that you are a good person, you will be treated as a good person. In the same way, if you create an impression that you are bad, people will deal badly with you. The image of you that you portray to others will determine how they relate with you. So you need to build an image that will portray you positively to others.
The truth is that the way you think and perceive yourself will influence your actions, but much more than that, it will also influence your behaviour, emotions, and even your decision making. All these will also influence your interaction with others and they will respond in the same way. So you see, the way people interact with you is first determined by the image of you that they perceive in their mind. So if you do not want people to think in a certain manner towards you, there is no point portraying an image that will send the wrong signal to them. Take this instance; there is a way that you will dress and you will send a particular signal to others and they will interact with you based on what they can see and not based on who you may be or your personality.
When you see someone that is dressed half-naked with more parts of their body revealed than is covered, what impression will you make at first in your mind? Of course, your impression will be influenced primarily by the image they have created. Whether they are who the image is portraying or not, it may not matter at that moment because the human mind is designed to make judgement on what is perceived. Imagine if you go to the hospital and the doctor comes out with dreads, tattoos all over his body, multiple piercings, and saggy baggy trousers, what impression will you have of him? Of course, you will question if he is truly a doctor or a psychiatric patient. But if he is well dressed, the image of him being a doctor will be easy to create.
Creating a positive self-image is a vital requirement in life. Of course, people tend to address you the way they perceive you to be. It is worthy to note that there is a level of confidence that comes when you build a positive self-image; this is not about pride but the knowledge of who you are. Of course, a level of self-ego is actually needed and is healthy, so as to help you build the required confidence. As a matter of fact, it will be almost impossible to build confidence without first creating a positive image of yourself. Now one may ask; how can one effectively create a positive image for themself?
The first point here is to accept yourself the way you are. Do not be submerged in the quest to be someone else when you can be a better version of yourself. More so, you are not made to be someone else, so you have to learn to accept yourself. If you want others to accept you, then you must first learn to accept yourself. You have to also understand that everyone has a different makeup and is built differently. Your strength may be another person's flaw and your flaw might be their stronghold. You see why you need to accept yourself. After all, perfection only exists in an ideal world, but the ideal world may not even exist in reality. When you embrace your strengths and weaknesses, you will break yourself loose from the insatiable desire to be who/what you are not.
The next point is to speak positivities about yourself. What you say over your life matters a lot and it can influence how you act. More so, if you speak ill of yourself to someone, they will form an ill image about you and they will also speak ill about you. But when you speak positively about yourself, others will do the same for you.
The last point to note in order to create a good self-image is to surround yourself with people of positive self-image too. You cannot be in the company of timid people with inferiority mindset and hope to build a positive self-image, because they will influence your thoughts and you will see yourself thinking and acting like them. If you will be positive, then you should hang around people with the same positive mentality and they will help you to build a positive self-image.
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