BUILDING SELF ESTEEM - CARICATURE YOUR LIFE

PART 1 - CARICATURE YOUR LIFE

I’m so glad you’re reading this. After many years of leading all sorts of different teams; teams of volunteers and employees; motivated and unmotivated; demonstrative and reserved; I have always taken a special interest in those who wanted to believe they could be so much more, but just didn’t think enough of themselves to get there.

Over the years of leading, mentoring and coaching these colleagues I have been able to help many reach the potential we all knew they had.

Life is too short to spend it feeling you are less than you want to be. Whether you simply feel that life has more for you – you can almost see it, feel it, touch it – there is a glass ceiling stopping you from really getting hold of it. Or maybe you know you have low self-esteem and need to get a truer perspective of yourself. Low self-esteem seems to be on the increase. Of course it’s something people have faced since the dawn of time – but it seems to be more common and more profound in the past 40-50 years.

We live in a comparison culture. We are consistently compared with others, whether Hollywood stars, athletes, successful business people, or our partners ex!! For many, life has become like being forced into competing in a non-stop beauty or talent pageant. Each person being measured and critiqued against a universally accepted set of criteria – and not being seen for the extraordinary, unique character they are.

Well, I’m privileged to go on this journey of uncovering your character with you.

“Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.” Maxwell Maltz

Whether you are an entrepreneur, corporate CEO, student, musician, mum or looking for work and direction – everyone knows what low-self esteem feels like. But do we know what it means?

 

WHY CARICATURES?

When most people think of a caricature their mind goes to street artists sitting on small chairs, sketching customers as cartoons in charcoal.

Whether humorous or not, a caricature is ‘a representation in which the subject's distinctive features are exaggerated’.

We are using the analogy of a caricature here for a couple of reasons. Firstly, it is a physical and visual demonstration to a predominantly internal process we are going to go through; it just helps make it as ‘real’ as it can be to us. Secondly caricatures are creative – and what you are going to do is assess who you ‘think’ you are in certain situations and then create yourself as a caricature. This is not about pretending to be someone else or being untrue to who you are. We are going to see the distinctive elements of who you are and then exaggerate them to produce a positive outcome.
 

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