Improving Self Confidence and The Role Of Self Esteem
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Improving Self Confidence and the Role of Self Esteem
By Margi Matters
Improving self confidence and improving self esteem is a package deal. Improving self confidence is a lot like baking a cake! Although there is much tasty variety in the flavours and texture of cakes, there are certain essential ingredients and a certain method to follow in the way you treat and blend the ingredients if you want to get the best results. If you are using eggs, leaving the shells on is not an option if you want the best results! It is necessary to do certain things when you are improving self confidence if you want the best results.
Self esteem is like the oven! The essential piece of equipment that allows your confidence to be formed – to alchemise confidence from raw ingredients to fully formed and stable results. Without the oven, the ingredients are just a mash of ingredients. All that raw potential just waiting for you!
Low self esteem is like rejecting yourself. This is not a viable position for improving self confidence! How can you feel confident or be improving self confidence if you don’t like, accept or value yourself! How can you feel confident if you do not trust yourself, your decisions, your opinions, your path.
Low self esteem is putting a low value on yourself, having a low regard for yourself, holding yourself in low “esteem” – commonly experienced as feeling worthless or inadequate. Feeling “not good enough”. The question to ask yourself is , not good enough for what? Or should that be not good enough for whom?
Low self esteem is characterised by continually judging ourselves negatively. The process of improving confidence requires us stop doing this! Immediately!
Think of all the ways you judge yourself as being right or wrong, good or bad. You may be surprised by just how often you do this during the day with what you do, what you don’t do, what you think, what you say to yourself and what you say to other people. Improving confidence and self esteem begins with a focus on becoming more aware of your self and your relationship with yourself.
Recognise that no matter what has happened in the past, you have a choice right now to change your relationship with yourself. To stop negatively judging and rejecting yourself and instead, decide to start accepting yourself .
Improving self confidence begins with working on self esteem and you can start immediately by increasing self awareness and learning to accept yourself.
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