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Our society has become so consumed by collecting things that we’ve lost our sense of self worth and confused it with net worth.

On this episode I discuss some of the reasons why this happens and a new way to look at self worth.

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Defining the value of something can often be a difficult thing to accomplish.

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Let's say you're looking at a house that's around 2000 square feet that

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could be worth different amounts based on if you're in one location

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versus another., you might be in the middle of Canada and the prairies,

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and it might be a lot cheaper than if you're on the coast near the ocean.

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Eating at an expensive restaurant that serves tiny portions of handcrafted

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culinary treats may not be worth much to someone that's used to eating at an all.

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You can eat buffet and paying 99 cents for an app may sound really

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expensive if you're used to all the free alternatives out there, even if it

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saves you hours a day in productivity.

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So value is clearly relative.

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The problem is when it comes to defining your self worth, we default usually

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to comparing it to our net worth.

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In this episode, we're gonna be exploring how to detach your

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self worth from your net worth.

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I'm Amin Ahmed, and welcome to be well do well.

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before we can explore how to detach our self-worth from our net worth.

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Let's actually define what net worth is according to investopedia.com.

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Your net worth is the value of your assets minus the liabilities that you own.

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So jewelry, art, your cars, houses, these are all assets that you own.

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Mortgages credit card debt would all count as your liabilities.

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When we look at your net worth, it all comes down to the

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material, things that you own.

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Now you can probably see where I'm going with this self worth is so much more than

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just the material things that you own.

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In psychology, self-worth lies at the very core of who we are.

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It defines our thoughts, our feelings, and our behaviors self-worth itself is a

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really tricky concept to grasp as there's so many different interpretations of

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how to determine this intangible idea that we put on ourselves as self-worth.

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Common measures.

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Like I mentioned earlier, the things that you own that we use to determine

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our self worth could also include your physical appearance, who, you know,

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what you do for a living and so forth.

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all of these are dependent on external factors.

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If your house burns down or you lose your job, would your self worth then decrease?

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There's gotta be a better.

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The key to understanding self-worth is really in self-awareness knowing

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yourself who you are and who you want to be is one of the most important factors

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in understanding your own worthiness.

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When you can accept who you are at this moment in time, acknowledging

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all your strengths, all of your weaknesses, and you start to see the

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full potential of who you really are.

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This is our self worth is actually born.

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I've mentioned in many episodes before that we have a planner it's called a be

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well do well planner and we take this concept of self worth very seriously.

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We implemented it and designed it right into the planner itself.

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You start your day by writing down what you envision your

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future life to look like in six.

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This is specifically designed to tap into that hidden potential.

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As I just mentioned, if your self-worth is based on external factors,

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then there's this big disconnect.

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However, if your self-worth is tied to your potentiality or potential of who

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you can be and who you can actualize yourself to be, this is what causes

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you to feel more worthiness and for your self worth to increase and.

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We designed the daily planner to include a section where you type in or you write in

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what your life is gonna look like in six months, this is really tapping into the

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hidden potential of who you really are.

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You can download the planner from our website, be well, do

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well.fm, and just click the link for planner in the navigation.

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Or I'll put the link down below in the show notes.

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I hope this has been helpful.

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It's a short episode, but I definitely wanted to talk about this today

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because there's too much going on right now, where people are tying

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their self worth to their net worth.

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And you see the results of that as mental health issues, you see

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suicide amongst teens, that's really unfortunate, but you also see just

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generally people are not as happy.

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And if we disconnect ourselves from what we own and start to own ourselves in the

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potential that we have, this is really what causes our self worth to go up.

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In the next episode, I'm gonna be talking about one of my favorite.

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Of no hurry.

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No pause.

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I hope you'll be able to join me for that episode tomorrow.

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Thanks again for making the be well, do I podcast a part of your