22 JanLow Self Esteem not caused by flu virus?

Isn’t it frustrating when you seem to take two steps forward only to take three back in pursuit of your goals?

The main cause of this is the inherent self-limiting beliefs you hold in your sub-conscious that were not born yesterday but have become deeply buried in there from your childhood. These self-limiting beliefs prevent you from getting what you want restricting your personal development.

In order to do something about them first of all you have to accept their existence, in order to do so you need to have the self confidence to know what they are.

I can almost guarantee that sometime during your childhood you heard such things as ‘Don’t’ ‘Stop’ ‘Quiet’ ‘Your too small’ ‘You cannot do that’ and more

Then there would be times when you actually tried something new and if you did not get immediate results you were met with almost derision from your peer group or even relatives.

A favourite put down when I was growing up was, ‘children should be seen and not heard’ have you had that said to you? This little phrase can fester inside you and have a great impact on how you see yourself in later life.

Did you ever tell someone that you were going to try something new only for them to say ‘You cannot do that because … Read more…

27 DecHow to Lift Your Self Esteem

When our self esteem is low, we tend to have the habit of picking at ourselves. Little self criticisms enter our thoughts constantly, and a lot of the time we do not even realize we are doing it! We just feel crumby. It is simply a bad habit to pick at your self, but since that makes us feel sad and incompetent it limits us from doing all we can in life. When we notice we are doing self criticizing, we can argue with the criticism and that helps. But if each evening we just think of three things we can feel good about ourselves, that would go a long way to building a more positive habit of looking at ourselves in terms of the good, rather than the bad and help us in life.

We deserve to have better self esteem. And the stronger we are, the more we can help others and want to help others, so we should never feel guilty about feeling good about ourselves. It is not selfish. Read more…

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