How to create a new Self-Concept to reach your Goals & unlock your Full Potential✨

It’s almost the new year and the best time to set new goals & resolutions!✨ However, a lot of the time we struggle to reach these goals and never actually change… which is why the answer isn’t in chasing goals but in reshaping *who you are*.

In this video, I’ll show you how to create a new self-concept and use it to reach your goals & true potential.

Your *self-concept*—the collection of beliefs you hold about yourself—dictates your actions and, ultimately, your reality. It’s often shaped unconsciously, influenced by your environment and experiences, and very rarely in your best interest. But here’s the good news: you can change it.

Imagine you were given your dream life today. Would you be able to keep it? Probably not, because you haven’t yet become the person who can. If you want to change your life, you need to embody the qualities of the person who already lives that life.

Picture your dream life and compare it to where you are now. What qualities— e.g. discipline, confidence, resilience—do you need to develop? Write it down✒️

Next, understand how your self-concept is created: beliefs → thoughts → actions → experiences → beliefs → and so on… your self-concept consists of the collection of these beliefs you hold about yourself. To change it, you want to intervene in this loop at two points: Thoughts & Actions

1. You can introduce new thoughts through affirmations; think of affirmations that relate to the qualities you’re focusing on developing in yourself. But keep in mind, affirmations alone won’t change your self-concept— they need to be followed by action.

1. Now you want to collect positive experiences to reaffirm the new beliefs you want to create, eg. if you want to develop confidence, you need to prove this through experience. You collect positive experiences by gradually stretching your comfort zone, instead of breaking it which can lead to negative experiences and more insecurities/limiting beliefs.

→ Write a big list of all the things you currently struggle to do that are a part of your dream life & relate to the qualities you want to develop. Example: confidence— wearing a cute outfit, talking to a stranger, going to more social events, taking an opportunity, etc…

Then, re-arrange the list from easiest to hardest and start with the first action, do this until it becomes easy, and then move on to the next, and repeat. This is how you gradually grow your comfort zone & collect positive experiences → positive beliefs → positive self-concept.

Also, think what habits, routines, and mindset does your “dream self” have? Focus on these to create your new self-concept. Remember, your current self is a product of habit, and habits can be rewritten.

This year, when creating your goals & vision boards, instead of focusing on your dream life, focus on your dream self-concept. You can become this with the right mindset, affirmations, and intentional actions. So, I hope this helps, it’s one of my favorite tools for self-development and has helped me so much in my life! Tysm for watching😊🫶🏻

🖇️chapters🖇️
0:00 intro
2:16 what is a self-concept
7:31 how to create a new self-concept
9:47 change your thoughts
11:49 actions & positive experiences
13:43 expanding your comfort zone
19:47 thoughts & actions summary
21:24 start a self-concept journal
24:05 self-concept work

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[faizanali]

"If you want to change your life, you need to focus on who you are, not what you want."

This is such a profound reminder, Zoe! When you align your actions and mindset with a strong sense of 'self', the results naturally follow. My goal for 2025 would be to land a job in a field that I've been working hard to break into for some time now.

[itszoewinter]

I hope you enjoy this video☺✨ What are some of your goals & resolutions for 2025?

[paulderoos]

As a clinician and an adult educator, I love the education experiences you create with your videos. Please keep it coming!

[nancyzhan]

Feeling resonate with your video.sending you lots of love and compassion❤

[mariaeduardasantos]

This is one of the best and most didactic videos I've ever seen on youtube! Thank you so much for posting it!
I hope your account continues to grow 💫

[raph]

This is interestingly quite clear of an explanation. Also your speaking is very calming. Nice work hope you'll keep progressing

[andreww]

This self-concept loop is an almost exact match to John Boyd's OODA loop (observation - orientation - decision - action). Experiences = observation; beliefs = orientation; thoughts = decision; actions = action. So there's a whole body of theory in OODA about how to use this kind of loop to create change, and what the mechanics of it are. The OODA loop is designed to create change during a military conflict, or 'outer conflict.' Whereas I suppose this loop could help you create change in the presence of 'inner conflict.'

[L.I.T.H.I.U.M]

You're very bright. Thanks for making this tutorial.

[bagelel]

Watching your vids now along with healthygamergg I’ll be unstoppable

[Anzu_kagami]

Thank you very much for every single thing that you had said in this video. I mean, I really need them and you video just came to me at the right time so, thank you. By the way, love your top. The purple colour suits you well, it makes you look prettier and brighter. :x

[MexIcAnBnRz]

Just stumbled upon your channel and watched the shadow work video. It was really helpful, and your video was so calming. Keep up the amazing work!

[willl]

2 things.
1) You have such impeccable hand writing that I can’t read it. Thank you for pointing to your words.

2) This is the exact thing I need to do, but don’t want to do, but have to do, & know I should do to take my life where I’m avoiding. You uploaded this just in the nick of time.

I’m going to go smoke & pace for a moment while I get over myself. It’s wild how simple it is to solve the challenge of developing self image(concept), yet it’s the very thing that I know I’ve neglected in developing myself to live the way in supposed to be.

I appreciate you Ms.Winter, have the best year of your life.

[rocktraveller_aa]

Another amazing video Zoe! You brilliantly articulate why our dreams reside within us and outline clear steps on how one gets there.
Please keep sharing your ideas! With love & admiration, Alex (rocktraveller) 🤙

[ChrisMenge]

As per usual, this is an amazing video. I appreciate how well you put this together. It echoes great content from some of your other videos and brings it together in an important ultimate point. I am not ashamed to say parts of me have grown exponentially recently, and content like yours has not only directly helped, but also serves as an affirmation that my ideas of next steps might just be correct, especially if all that you say here is true. Also, I feel affirmed that I am making positive progress, as I can see the results of my efforts that I desired, and that you say are desirable. Keep up the great work and thank you!

[INFP-Insights]

For me, I bypass concepts and go straight for the love - more specifically, unconditional love for myself, my inherent worth, my intrinsic value. I then ask myself: which signature vibration best represents who I am deep down inside? Is it peace, love, joy, bliss, grace, ease, or flow? For me, it's flow, and so I embody that, day after day after day 🙂

[NotMePlease]

Thoughts
Actions
Experiences
Beliefs
B E A T but upward.
Make professional thoughts that create
ACTIONS that lead to
EXPERIENCES that prove to yourself that you hold the
BELIEF that you are in your dream life. BEAT down your old beliefs. BEAT up your new beliefs. ❤🎉😅☯️📘

[breannajune]

What if it's not thoughts that I am lazy or can't do it but that I'm doing it and outside factors like a car breaking down, being laid off, or getting injured keeps kicking me back. Or disappointing situations like discrimination or abuse are kicking me back? Can you do a video that explains how outside factors can play into this and how to also build a system to manage those outside factors.

[borntoloveyou]

This helped me a lot!! Thanks very much!!!

[sailorssea]

just found your channel and its great. Thank you

[lubrudu]

Is shadow work and the integration of anima/animus part of the process of individuation?