GROWTH MINDSET - “THE INNER CRITIC”

Quote: “The inner critic isn’t the enemy” Yong Kang Chan, Author of ‘Parent Yourself Again’.

Nearing the end of the week, let’s explore the Inner Critic.

The Inner Guidance System of YOU:
Conscientious people, and especially high achievers, are those who have probably struggled with their “Inner critic”; thoughts or feelings of never quite being good enough.

Psychologists often put the inner critic down to past conditioning, but modern evidence has emerged that the inner critic is intrinsically something more. Something that comes very much from within.

Described as the moral compass and a self-monitoring mechanism, the inner critic can, when explored with a curious and open mind, be leveraged in forming adaptive advantages in your life.


Let's now explore some insights in to your inner critic:

Formulas exist to enable us to build on our current strengths and also to discover new avenues for a more enriched existence.

Potential: It is tempting to think of your inner critic as an enemy that lives within your own skin, but the incentive is that your intuition ‘knows’ you’re destined for better things. Use the inner critic to your advantage to level up.

Incentive: Your inner critic is powerfully for you. It is trying its best to protect you from missing out on ‘the good stuff’.

Take time out to sit and listen to the voice in your head that’s whispering or shouting. Where is it leading to?

External: You can, if you wish, allow external influences such as social media, people around you etc., to lead you to believe that you’re not good enough. You could be the source of other people’s jokes at your expense. Banter you’re the subject of, but not party to.

Ultimately it is you who gets to decide your own boundaries.

Self-Rule: Try treating your inner critic as your inner genius and see how you feel and recognise what you begin to think. Chances are, you will reach a place of compassion for yourself and a space where you’re actually much better than you accepted.

Here at ACS, a very busy and very successful Talent Acquisition & Recruitment Consultancy, we are a team of professionals, we love what we do and do what we love. Our objective: To take people and companies, from where they are, to where they want to be. Business-Driven, People-Focused.

“When we leverage growth mind-set, affirmation & visualisation, our possibilities, opportunities, key behaviours and actions become transformed and magnified.” LOVE YourSelf Unconditionally.

(Dedicated to my husband – my cheerleader).

Thank you for listening today. I hope the words that I shared with you today are of benefit.