New idea I've been developing with the support of my clients.
"There are 3 categories under which every potential action you can take can be listed.
NEED: your survival depends on this, or it is so incredibly important that you could not live with yourself if you did not do it.
WANT: you preferred behaviour. This doesn't mean you "feel like" doing it, moreso that you would be proud of yourself for doing it, it aligns with your core values, it helps you achieve goals that matter to you, and in the future you will be grateful you did it.
SHOULD: tasks you feel obliged, pressured or guilty about, even though you neither need to do them or want to do them. These are the actions that society, parents and media have programmed into you as things you should do - to be "successful", to be a "good person", and so on.
Your self-confidence dies whenever you do a SHOULD task. Or more accurately: whenever you do something from a SHOULD motivation."
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