Saad Tasleem – Are you too hard on yourself? Self-Criticism

			It's okay to be critical of oneself and perhaps even needed, but maybe instead of saying self
criticism, we should be saying self analysis, the word criticism often has negative emotions
attached to it. So maybe it's better to stay away from that. So with our self analysis, we want to
be in a positive mindset. Self analysis is actually very important so we can recognize where we need
to improve and what we need to work on. However, it is very important also that we are not overly
hard on ourselves. And you may say, How do I know if I'm being too hard on myself? Well, when we are
so hard on ourselves that we begin to lose hope then we've gone too far. I'm never going to be able
		

			to do it, or I'm never going to get better. So what's the point hope is necessary because we want to
keep ourselves in a position that we stay motivated to better ourselves, even if we don't always see
immediate success or immediate results. So we need to redefine simply putting the effort as part of
the success itself.