Million Dollar Habits – Page 37 yourself performing at your very best, consistent with the highest values and
qualities that you have, or desire to have.
Especially, continually repeat the magic words “I like myself!” over and over
again, until they are accepted by your subconscious mind and become a permanent
part of your personality. The more you like and respect yourself, and consider
yourself to be a valuable and important person, the faster you will develop every
other habit, quality and attribute that you need to fulfill your full potential.
The Foundation of Your Personality At this point, many people ask, “Where does your self-concept come from? How
does it begin? How does it develop? What are the major influences that shape your
self-concept and how can you change your self-concept once it has developed?”
These are vital questions, and there are definite answers for them.
The fact is that each child is born with
no self-concept at all . Every thought,
feeling, idea, opinion, belief or conviction that you have as an adult has been
learned, starting in early infancy. You have been taught to believe the things you
believe by the people and influences around you over the course of your lifetime,
especially when you were a child.
It is true that each child is born with certain personality characteristics,
propensities, talents, leanings, and other unique attributes and qualities. Some
psychologists say that fully 60% of personality characteristics, such as courage,
extroversion, musical interest, sensitivity, athletic ability and so on, are inborn and
Million Dollar Habits – Page 38 innate. This is why children born into the same family, with the same parents and
similar upbringing, often turn out totally different from each other. But in terms of
self-concept, how a person thinks and feels about themselves relative to their
ability and potential, this is learned from early infancy.
