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Strategies for developing your inner qualities
The document provides strategies for developing several inner qualities: - Assertiveness: Anticipate triggers and objections, keep messages clear and concise, and defuse emotions. - Staying centered: Take time to meditate, breathe, and focus on the body. Stop and pay attention to goals and what is trying to be accomplished. - Resilience: Create a passionate vision, engage in self-care, and discipline yourself to work toward goals daily. - Self-esteem: Develop self-awareness, engage in self-care, and forgive yourself by remembering the past cannot be changed. Take small steps toward goals.
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- 1. Strategies for DevelopingYour Inner Qualities<br />As devised by BACN members on 6/24/11<br />Assertiveness<br />Anticipate my triggers and the other person’s objections
- 2. Think through messagecontent: be clear and concise
- 3. Defuse emotionsStaying Centeredin the Midst of Chaos<br />Take time to be and feel: meditate, breathe deeply, focus on your body
- 4. Stop, step back,pay attention to what is going on
- 5. Refocus on firstprinciples and goals: what are you trying to accomplish?Resilience<br />Create a passionate vision to help you keep coming back
- 6. Engage in goodself-care to support your persistence
- 7. Discipline: work towardyour goal X hours every day.Self-Esteem<br />Develop self-awareness: where are feelings of low self-esteem coming from?
- 8. Engage in self-careto help you feel worthwhile. Forgive yourself. Remember, “Yesterday was a long time ago.”
- 9. Take that firststep toward your desired goal, however small, and build on it incrementally.Flexibility<br />Experiment, even in a small way, to do something differently
- 10. Role play alternativeperspectives
- 11. Discern where flexibilityis useful and where clearer boundaries would be more helpfulSelf-Awareness<br />Meditate 15 minutes every day (tai chi, sitting, mindfulness)
- 12. Engage in activitiesthat force you to be in the now (sailing, yoga, surfing)
- 13. Develop the skillof “Introspective Hesitation”Courage<br />Face a fear (performing, public speaking, selling)
- 14. Develop competency ina capability. Understand your competence.
- 15. Draw on thestrength of others.