It is self esteem which is the key to your success and happiness and it is one of the most important factors in determining your effectiveness as a human being.
Self Esteem is:
- having a feeling of confidence and competence to function successfully in life and trusting in oneself.
- approving and unconditionally loving yourself
- the willingness to be foolish
- being able to express one's creativity and trusting in one's intuition
- being authentic and genuine so that one's real self can be experienced
- the ability to see oneself as the cause and source of one's circumstances in life, so that one may take responsibility for it.
Ways to Improve Your Self Esteem:
- List all the things that you like about yourself and don't like. Work on the things you don't like if possible otherwise learn to appreciate the things you cannot change
- Respect other people's thoughts and feelings
- Frequently acknowledge others by telling them that you like and appreciate them especially your family , friends and workmates.
- List ten things that you enjoy doing and do them frequently.
- Be more assertive and speak up for yourself. This can be done by asking for what you want as well as by expressing your thoughts and feelings.
- Expereince the pleasure of deep breathing.
- Stand in front of a full length mirror naked and tell yourself "I love you" for 5 minutes (try it for half and hour and see what happens).
- Don't take yourself so seriously and be able to laugh with others at life and yourself.
- Display your picture in the home.
- Acknowledge your successes and accomplishments and give yourself a pat on the back for your wins.
- Start enhancing yourself by going to workshops and seminars and invest money in yourself
- Give yourself permission to be lazy and to do the things that you want to do at times.
- Be your own best lover by treating yourself lovingly every change you get.
- See the strengths in the people that you meet
- Stop putting yourself down and being critical of yourself.
- Build a lifestyle that generates and nourishes your self worth.
- Wear clothes that you feel good in.
- Allow yourself to accept acknowledgments and compliments and don't invalidate their positive thoughts and feeling about you.
- Stop comparing yourself with others and see yourself as being of equal worth.
- Put integrity in your life and always tell the truth.
- Focus your attention onto enjoying the present rather that living in the past of future.
- Begin to see yourself as being self sufficient rather than needing relationships.
- Learn from your mistakes and see them as valuable lessons rather than feeling guilty about them.
- Replace your thoughts of being inferior and inadequate. Generate positive thoughts of feelings of love and acceptance.
- Stop blaming others for your life circumstances and give up the "victim" act. Begin to see yourself as the cause or source of what happens to you
- Treat yourself as you would divinity..... for your are divine!!!
