‘Motivate Yourself to Success’ by Marc Sanders
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20. Ten Ways to Regain Your Self-Esteem
Self-esteem is your inner state of mind which indicates the extent of your love for yourself. You can change your self-esteem and put in new values. That sparks and uplifts your energy levels, your persistence and your love for life. It is the experience of being able to meet challenges of life happily and shows your love and respect for yourself as a human being.
You incur losses to your self-esteem through negative happenings in your life.
You degenerate in front of yourself whenever you commit mistakes, misbehave, are unable to forgive others or neglect yourself. This hints towards you lacking some qualities of a total and complete human being.
However, you can regain your self-esteem through these ten ways:
1. Be happy always- Happiness is within your mind and reflects in your feelings. Regain your self-esteem by molding your mind to be happy always.
2. Honor values close to you – Develop and set specific important values in life. Learn to honor them whatever the circumstances.
3. Identify points of success in your life –Identify and fix your criteria for success in your life. Such criteria highlight your preferences in life.
4. Fix your goals– Your love for yourself comes to the fore through goals you set. If your respect for yourself is high, you will set challenging, higher goals.
5. Be positive – Develop a positive attitude towards life and try to uphold it in all circumstances. Positive thoughts bring about positive happenings.
Copyright 2005 Marc Sanders