Self esteem is at the core of growing as a person. Undoubtedly belief and confidence in ones ability is one of the major components of sustained success in life. It is important to have a high self esteem. It builds your confidence and belief in yourself and ultimately, this determines how you view the circumstances of life in general.
How you assert yourself and knowing who you are, and being comfortable with who you are, will create an outer confidence that will almost certainly be felt by others around you.
Your confidence builds your self esteem and this comes from your inner strength. It is your will of mind that will elevate you from where you are to where you want to be. This requires a strong resolve. Without a strong resolve, you will be permanently incapacitated.
Your confidence and ability to make decisions, let alone try new things will be shot to pieces. Your self esteem will take a nose dive. As a result, nothing will move until you make a firm and resolute decision to move and grow as a person.
When you stand in front of the mirror, can you honestly recognise yourself?
Do you prefer where you are at the moment?
Do you know your strengths and weaknesses?
What is preventing you from stepping out of your “comfort zone”?
Is it fear? What are your fears?
Do you worry all the time?
Has indecision, doubt, procrastination disabled your reasoning faculty?
How do you make the best use of your time?
Who do you hang out with? Do they impact your life positively or they are stifling your growth?
Do you really want to improve your self esteem?
There is only one person who can give an honest appraisal of who you are as a person. And that person is you. To reinforce this statement, no one can improve your self esteem for you unless you have a determined conviction within your mind to do so yourself.
In order to build your confidence a bit, you need to embrace one important point. All the successful people in life have all made mistakes in their pursuit of success. And they achieved success by taking action because they had self belief.
Your ultimate decision to embark on change to develop your self esteem begins with words. The words that you emit from your mouth are powerful weapons that can project positive things to your lives. The same is equally applicable if you employ negative words to your life as well.
For example, if you inform everyone that you are sick and depressed when you are not, your countenance would be that of someone who is sick and depressed.
You need to stop living a mediocre life and stop feeling inferior. How do you raise your self esteem? You need to start growing for a change and a better future. Why? When you stop learning, you stop growing. When you stop growing, you stop living. Don’t settle for average, knowing fully well that there is a better life awaiting you if only you would take the chance and improve your life.
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For more information on how to build your self-esteem and self confidence in order to live a happy, prosperous life you deserve, readthe articles that will provide you with lots of useful techniques, affirmations and exercises about how to have a rock solid foundation for your self-esteem.
10 Tips on how to overcome low self esteem
1. Believe in yourself
Start seeing yourself as a high flier. It is only you that can turn things around. Take a chance and step out. Lao Tsu once said that "...the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step".
2. Stop feeling sorry for yourself
If life knocks you down, you have the right to blame the circumstances of life. However, if you are still down, then it is down to you. You see, life does not care if you are down. You need to dust yourself and get up. See yourself as a go getter, and only you can stop your self from realising your dreams.
3. Stop making excuses
Don’t blame the economy, the recession, lack of money, your boss, your family or friends for your present predicament. They have written their own chapter in your life and gone like the wind. But you now have the opportunity to rewrite your life the way you would like it to be. Remember, an author is not restricted with words.
4. Restructure your life
Let go of friends or people in your life that do not value you. Trust me, I know it’s hard, but it has to be done. If you want to operate on a different level, you need to move out of their circle. Give yourself the freedom to discover a new you.
5. Don’t look back
Let go of past hurts. Forgive and move on. If someone does not want you in their lives, let them go. Don’t hold on. It’s their loss. You are priceless in someone else’s eyes. There is a person somewhere, waiting for you to be a blessing in their life. And most importantly, your worth is inestimable to the world that is crying out for what you can offer.
6. Hang out with the right people
Vultures don’t hang out with chickens. The vulture is a high flyer. Whereas, the chicken looks down and pecks on the floor. As a result the chicken has no vision, no horizon, no diversification and no territories to explore. Hang with the right people by joining a self improvement networking group.
7. Start growing positive thoughts
As words are powerful, so too are the thoughts we allow to filter through our minds. You need to start growing positive thoughts and get rid of negative ones. Be careful of what you listen to and especially what you read. You need to be aware that your thoughts manifest itself into words before you act them out.
8. Take care of your appearance
How you dress is how you will be addressed. Take extreme good care of yourself by always dressing smart. You hair need to be tidy or nicely cut. Your nails need to be trimmed or manicured. And don’t forget to use a deodorant for your body as well as getting rid of any mouth odour.
9. Be full of life
You need to rediscover a zest for life. Always remember, that no matter your circumstances, someone was once in your position wondering how they will come of their predicament. Say to yourself that it is not over until it is over. There is no point giving up on life when you’ve still got your whole life ahead of you. Good times still await you.
10. Smile and be grateful
You need to wake up everyday, even if it’s on the wrong side of the bed, and be grateful for life. There are probably people in worse situations than you. Look around you, there is probably something or someone that you are thankful for. Don’t despise small blessings. And remember to smile always. When you radiate happiness, it’s because of the things you are thankful for and not necessarily the changes you are expecting to happen in your life.
