What Is Self-esteem?

One of the major challenges we face in the 21st century is handling the amount of choices we have. It’s very complex. When you have hundreds of things to choose from you tend to hesitate and being clueless what direction to go. You do not know for sure what would be the best to do, what ...

One of the major challenges we face in the 21st century is handling the amount of choices we have. It’s very complex. When you have hundreds of things to choose from you tend to hesitate and being clueless what direction to go. You do not know for sure what would be the best to do, what activity would give you the most satisfaction or what would you really love to do.

That’s one major reason why people never finish what they started. Their interest dies away before they would accomplish something. You have to be more focused on what you do, because there are more distractive patterns to get you out of the track than was before. And this is a fairly “new” phenomenon in our society. There are so many other excitements out there, why should you keep doing whatever you started to do? Let’s do something else, something fun. We can finish this later.

And that’s where you damage your self-esteem and self confidence. There is NO accomplishments, NO results, the job is NOT done. Can you be proud of yourself? Of course NOT. Did you achieve something? You did NOT.

When you start something you’d better finish it otherwise your opinion of yourself will be hurt.

And that’s what self-esteem is: YOUR OPINION, YOUR FEELINGS, YOUR APPRAISAL and YOUR EVALUATION of yourself.

Self-esteem is your approach toward the “attacks” of reality.

What is high self-esteem?

When you feel great, happy and satisfied about yourself you have healthy, high self-esteem. When you love and respect yourself, when you feel confident to achieve anything you wish to achieve you have high self-esteem. When you have tons of energy and smiling a lot you have high self-esteem. The more tasks you accomplish the higher the level of your self-esteem is going to be.

What is low self-esteem?

Basically the opposite. When you do not feel good, happy and satisfied about yourself. Low self-esteem comes from not loving and respecting yourself. When you think you are not worth of love, respect and happiness you have low self-esteem. When you are focusing on your weaknesses instead of your strengths you develop low self-esteem.

Feeling good about yourself is essential to overcome the obstacles in your life, to be more active and energetic to face challenges on a daily basis. When you love and respect yourself you radiate that positive energy toward people who you interact with. You will more likely to have positive feedback from them if they feel that you are confident and you have high self-esteem.

Developing self-esteem is crucial to your well-being. To live an active, happy, fun life you have to work on your self-esteem. It’s not easy and change does not happen overnight. If you set slightly challenging, but achievable goals you can move toward accomplishing them. Once you finish them would give you the satisfaction, the feeling that you did something great, something of value. And then you can relax, enjoy life and can get ready for your next challenge.