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. Donāt live your life to please, or to impress, someone else.
2. Try and grasp the fact weāre different and have different goals and values ā¦ And donāt be swayed by other people who criticise your dreams.
3. Donāt compare your path or journey to someone elseās 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 everybodyās life. Also, choose to frame mistakes as learning opportunities.
5. You need to root for yourself, and seek to be your own best friend. Donāt denigrate yourself ā in public, or when youāre alone.
6. Remind yourself a weakness can become a strength, in time. It takes patience effort ā but, eventually, things change!
7. Make a list of what youāre 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. Donāt write them off as ānothingā, or as being āno big dealā. 9. Find ways to dissipate and channel negative emotions. Donāt 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 ā¦ 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 ābeing perfectā!
