Self-esteem: The Lazy Person’s Guide!

Improving your self-esteem isn’t about becoming selfish, loud, competitive and arrogant. It’s about taking care of yourself so that you have the strength and energy to help and give to others when appropriate.

It’s easy to look back and blame the past, your parents, your siblings, your teachers, your partner for leaving you, and so on, but at the end of the day the way you feel about yourself now is your responsibility. You can choose now to respond to life without your old self-doubt, hesitation and confusion.

it is time to take a deep breath and deal with the present.

It’s about being yourself, and knowing that within you lies the power to create all that you want in life.

when self-esteem is low you are not in the driving seat. Other people or events are steering the wheel, while you crouch in the back wondering where they will take you next.

You need to feel relaxed and happy in all aspects of your life to function optimally.

You accept responsibility for your failures and your successes and are willing to take calculated risks

Self-esteem without self-acceptance sets you up for disappointments, stress and unhappiness when misfortune arises and self-esteem is attacked. You need to learn to accept yourself, warts and all.

important thing is to learn to accept that sometimes you will be wrong and you are fallible.

The concept of self-acceptance is based on the knowledge that we are all fallible human beings, we all make mistakes and nobody is perfect.