One of the biggest roadblocks to great self-esteem is fear.
This isn’t the type of phobia that can be traced back to something real like spiders or heights. Instead, it’s based on something that can’t be touched—the possibility of failure. People with good self-concepts might laugh at that idea because it’s impossible for them to entertain the thought of letting fear stand in the way of their successes.
That’s where I want you to be at the end of my course. There are daredevils that laugh at danger; I want you to be a confident person that laughs at fear! You’ll be surprised by how easy it’ll be for you to achieve your goals once you refuse to let the fear of failure affect your self-esteem.
Here are some ways that you can squash the fear of failure that’s holding your great self-esteem hostage:
Be realistic with worst-case scenarios
Lots of people with low self-esteem allow themselves to think the worst will happen- and more. It’s important to objectively assess your risks so that you’ll have a clear picture of what you’re capable ofMore on How to Boost Your Self-esteem 2-3
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"Self-trust is the first secret of success."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson was so right. Regardless of how you define “success”, you have to agree that trusting and being confident in yourself is the first step towards achievement of any kind. Both of these things help you make and be comfortable with decisions no matter their size. Most importantly, it’s how you empower yourself to live your life.
Right now, you might be asking yourself what a person with low self-esteem looks like. Someone with low self-esteem can look like anyone. It’s what’s going on inside the person that makes them different from someone with average or high self-esteem.
It may come as no surprise that many self-esteem issues have their roots in More on Do You Really Have Low Self-esteem? Signs, Symptoms & Causes
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Let’s be frank. Developing and boosting your self-esteem will take work—lots of work. It can be difficult to shake years of bad habits, attitudes and beliefs that have kept you in a pit of low self-esteem, but it’s not impossible. I’m here to help you navigate your way to a new life- a new way of being, thinking and acting that can change your life for the better.
Many of the factors that contribute to low self-esteem come from childhood issues. That may sound like a cliché, but it’s very true. It’s during childhood when we start to get impressions of the world around us and ourselves. It’s no surprise that the opinions we form during childhood follow us into adulthood.
We take the good and the bad with us into our adolescence and then into our adult years. It’s the bad that contributes to self-esteem problems and poses the greatest threat to our self-concepts. We are only what we make of ourselves and if we don’t believe in ourselves, we won’t get very far. More on How to Boost Your Self-esteem 1-3 (intro.)
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“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”
- Mark Twain
Self-esteem—It’s something that every person comes equipped with. It can connect people or drive them apart. But most importantly, it’s your opinion of yourself and your capabilities as a human being in the world.
The National Association of Self Esteem (NASE) defines self-esteem as the “experience of being capable of meeting life's challenges and being worthy of happiness.”
How true that definition is.
Recently, there’s been a trend amongst psychotherapists to build self-esteem in everyone. At first, you might think that this would help people and contribute to a better world in which to live, but the effects have been quite the opposite. Studies have shown that too much self-esteem in a person can be as dangerous as too little. The trick to harnessing the power of self-esteem is to find a healthy balance of it in each individual so that they can function to their fullest potential and avoid suffering from the effects of having too much or too little.
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