Tips for Improving your Self -Esteem
The following suggestions may be helpful for a person who finds that they are struggling with low self-esteem:
1. It starts with a decision to be your own person. Donât live your life to please, or to impress, someone else.
2. Try and grasp the fact weâre different and have different goals and values ⊠And donât be swayed by other people who criticise your dreams.
3. Donât compare your path or journey to someone elseâs journey as we start from different places and face different challenges.
4. Be kind, understanding and patient with yourself. Accept that failures and mistakes are part of everybodyâs life. Also, choose to frame mistakes as learning opportunities.
5. You need to root for yourself, and seek to be your own best friend. Donât denigrate yourself â in public, or when youâre alone.
6. Remind yourself a weakness can become a strength, in time. It takes patience effort â but, eventually, things change!
7. Make a list of what youâre good at, and keep adding to the list. Also, note the strengths that others see, and comment on, as well.
8. Treat yourself with respect and praise the things that you do well. Donât write them off as ânothingâ, or as being âno big dealâ. 9. Find ways to dissipate and channel negative emotions. Donât allow them to dictate the way you start to see yourself.
10. Spend time with those who like you, and can see your worth and value ⊠And, ignore those who attack you, and would like to see you fail.
11. Choose to stand up for yourself, and value being more assertive. Also, decide to start to set and then enforce appropriate, healthy boundaries.
12. Admit your mistakes - then learn to laugh at yourself. It helps remove the pressure and the stress of âbeing perfectâ!
