Compassionate Goals
Being involved in self-judgment makes you lose sight of the big picture. It would be helpful to consider how your actions have affected others around you.
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As we all live as a part of various systems, our behaviors and attitudes affect others just as much, and sometimes even more, than they affect ourselves. A good way to take the focus away from your negative self-assessment, is to focus positive attention on others.
Focusing on Others
This broader focus will help reorient your attention to what matters the most and encourages you to make changes that benefit others. Pursuing compassionate goals, in the place of self-image goals, has been observed to result in less conflictual relationships, more support and less loneliness.
A focus only on protecting one’s self-esteem results in other people emerging as competition and a complete failure to recognize their needs.
Oskar Blakstad (Mar 28, 2016). Compassionate Goals. Retrieved Oct 02, 2023 from Assisted Self-Help: https://staging.explorable.com/en/e/compassionate-goals
Browse Full Outline
- 1How to Be Less Self-Critical
- 2What is Self-Criticism?
- 3How Self-Critical Are You?
- 4More About Self-Criticism
- 5Assessing Self-Criticism
- 6Tips for Becoming Less Self-Critical
- 7Create Balance
- 8Replacing Self-Criticism