Do You Like Yourself?

Self-esteem is the third part of our self-concept

How do you really feel about you?

Do you like yourself as a boss, an employee, a parent, a friend and as a person?

Our self-esteem can be built on telling ourselves how much we ‘like ourselves’.

I can hear the panic in you saying that you were told that self-love is wrong and that we should be putting others before ourselves.

But, we were given the wrong information and this is totally wrong.

For example, if we were to look at the religious leaders, they teach us to love our neighbours as though ourselves – not more or instead of ourselves.

As children we see ourselves as being important.

Yet, somehow we are programmed by our parents, teachers and society itself to stop being ‘selfish’.

Consequently, we start having self-doubt and as a result, this kills our self-esteem.

In addition, we are now losing confidence we start to think ‘what will others think’ if we go around ‘loving’ ourselves.

It’s time for a change.

Not only may we come to realise how important our self image is to our achievement of success in life and in business, but also many of us will limit our success by having such a low self-image of ourselves.

The great news is that you can make a change!

How to improve your Self-esteem & Self-Image

• Ask yourself what are you good at.
• Build only positive relationships
• Be kind to yourself
• Learn to be assertive, don’t let people walk all over you
• Start to say ‘no’ when you are too busy or you need time for you
• Give yourself a challenge