How to Keep Self-Worth: 10 Evidence-Based Coaching Practices
Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For How to Keep Self-Worth, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.
Practices that may help
- Practice worth-independent-of-achievement
Deliberately affirm your worth on low-achievement days — not despite the lack of achievement but independent of it.
Self-Worth vs. Self-Esteem - Write about a value that matters to you
Before a stressful or threatening situation, spend five minutes writing about a value that is genuinely important to you.
Self-Affirmation Theory, Made Practical - The practice of self-assertiveness
Honor your wants, needs, and values by expressing them in the world — appropriately and openly.
The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem, Made Practical - Shift the goal from high self-esteem to authentic self-regard
Stop trying to feel good about yourself and start aiming for honest, compassionate self-knowledge.
Self-Worth vs. Self-Esteem - Decouple self-worth from outcomes you can’t control
Your worth as a person is not on the line in situations where outcomes depend on external factors.
The Dichotomy of Control: Epictetus’ Central Lesson - Claim worthiness now
Believe you are worthy of love and belonging as you are — not after you fix yourself.
The Gifts of Imperfection, Made Practical - Practice wholehearted living
Cultivate the sense of worthiness that lets you engage life from "I am enough."
Daring Greatly, Made Practical - Build self-knowledge from behavioral evidence
Ground your self-beliefs in specific past behaviors, not feelings or others’ opinions.
Self-Concept Clarity, Made Practical - The practice of personal integrity
Keep your behavior aligned with your stated values — match your walk to your talk.
The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem, Made Practical - Use value-based self-affirmation before threatening evaluations
Before a threatening evaluation, write for 10 minutes about a value that matters to you — unrelated to the domain being evaluated.
Power Posing Revisited
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- On a day where I produced nothing
- I’ve got a big evaluation looming and I can already feel myself bracing to defend my whole worth on it
- I keep swallowing what I actually want and going along to keep the peace, and every time I stay silent against my own wishes it quietly tells me my needs don’t matter
- So much of my energy goes into managing how good I look
- When something I tried fails, it doesn’t just feel like a bad result
Related concerns
- How To Learn Self Worth
Deliberately affirm your worth on low-achievement days — not despite the lack of achievement but independent of it.
Practice worth-independent-of-achievement
- How Can I Know My Self Worth
Deliberately affirm your worth on low-achievement days — not despite the lack of achievement but independent of it.
- How To Feel More Self Worth
Cultivate the sense of worthiness that lets you engage life from "I am enough."
Practice wholehearted living
- How To Have More Self Worth
Before a stressful or threatening situation, spend five minutes writing about a value that is genuinely important to you.
Write about a value that matters to you
- How To Improve Ones Self Worth
Deliberately affirm your worth on low-achievement days — not despite the lack of achievement but independent of it.
- How To Improve Your Self Worth And Why Its Important
Deliberately affirm your worth on low-achievement days — not despite the lack of achievement but independent of it.
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