By Aditya Shukla, Psychologist
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If your thoughts are someone else's, you are borrowing someone else's self-worth.
Focus: How you think about yourself.
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What you think is influenced by others' inputs, but you get to reform those thoughts. Your thoughts about yourself become self-worth.
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If your behavior is solely based on others' needs, they control your self-worth.
Focus: The role you play in other's lives.
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Relationships are necessary for survival, but you don't have to prioritize a relationship over yourself. Your personal priorities becomes self-worth.
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If someone else makes decisions for you, they own your self-worth. This is when you lose control of yourself.
Focus: Who guides your behavior and perception.
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You can't always make decisions for yourself, but you can try to make choices, change them, and ask for advice whenever you want to. Your decisions become self-worth