Trending: Life Coach Thinks This Exercise Could Significantly Boost Your 'Happiness And Health'

Many people navigate life feeling like they are not enough by often measuring their sense of worth on external achievements like income or material possessions. Society tends to encourage this thinking, focusing on success and how we look. Life coach Francesca Hogi believes this approach to self-worth is flawed.

“We are just told from birth all of the ways in which we need to show up and the things we need to do and achieve and have and look and all of these things in order to be good enough,” Hogi told CNBC Make It.

According to her, constantly seeking validation from outside sources “is a slippery slope and it is a bottomless pit” which can leave a person in an endless loop as they “will never feel good enough because there will always be something else” to achieve, pushing them to chase the next goal.

Hogi whose book, How to Find True Love, will be released in 2025, encourages her clients to shift their perspective on self-worth with one simple exercise that helps them see things differently.

Hogi advises her clients to imagine a hypothetical scenario where they look upon the inherent value of a newborn baby.

“Imagine a newborn baby anywhere in the world. It could be your baby, a hypothetical baby — doesn’t matter. What does that baby have to do to be worthy of love, of care, of kindness, of good health?” said Hogi.

She asks her clients to think about what a baby has to do to deserve love and care. The answer is nothing. “But if you can accept, well, they don’t have to do anything. We love them because they are,” she said, emphasising that by using this idea for themselves, people can start to see their own worth without needing to prove or achieve anything

This exercise helps people challenge societal messages about where their self-esteem should come from. It starts to help them think, where does “our inherent worth as humans come from? It comes from just the fact that we are here, we are human,” said Hogi, adding that there is actually nothing to prove.

Hogi claims that by doing this simple exercise, one can feel “absolutely healthier” and “absolutely happier.” She added that they are more at ease being their “authentic” selves. Ultimately, the exercise helps them understand that their main purpose is simply to be themselves.