The importance of paying attention to your self-esteem levels Healthy levels of confidence are, without doubt, important to all of us so that we can thrive, dream, and persevere in the face of fear and obstacles. But even more importantly, you must work on repairing your ailing self-esteem for one main reason: Because low sense …
For anyone who hasn’t read the book, I would recommend that you go to the bookstore and buy it right now. It’s one of these titles that are pretty much on every “10-books-everyone-needs-to-read-in-their-lifetime” list. And it’s well worth the time. It’s written by two prominent minds in the field of neuroscience. Andrew Newberg, M.D., is …
We all, of course, want to be successful. We chase it incessantly, talk, read, write about it, and visualize it. Success feels great, tastes great and can give us an influx of endorphins. It’s a high like no other. So far so good. The culprit, though, is when we mis-interpret what it means to be …
Presence of fear is not the absence of self-esteem. On the contrary–confidence is our ability to move forward. And not necessarily away from our fears, but sometimes along with them. We all have heard the saying that there is no perfect timing. And it’s also true in terms of building confidence. The perfect timing comes …
Confidence is… Knowing that you control your self-esteem. Not other people. Not fate. Not the excuses you tell yourself. You. Self-esteem measures how much a person generally likes or dislikes themselves. So you are that person who decides whether you love or not the man in the mirror, whether you want to treat them with …
Low self-esteem is often rooted in the past–be it stemming from our upbringing, being pushed too hard, being bullied, comparing ourselves to others, or being in unhealthy relationships. But ignoring it all is not going to solve your woes, nor help you truly move on. unscarred Facing your monsters–no matter how unpleasant or unwanted this …
You can’t completely and unconditionally love yourself until you decide that you want to love yourself. Your feelings toward yourself shouldn’t be dependent on someone else’s approval of you, nor on any stereotypes that the world is trying to impose on us all. You should learn to like yourself a bit more, to be kinder …
I will start by saying this: Malcolm Gladwell has done it again! The book is simply a must-read. It offers some unique insight into how “geniuses” are made (that’s right, not born), how they rise to success, and that being very smart is simply not enough get one fame and fortune. The book’s main idea, …
I’ve read my fair share of research on happiness, but the book by Prof. Sonja Lyubomirsky was able to offer some new and exciting details. In a nutshell, it attempts to answer the perennial question of why we can never be completely happy. That is, why certain things, which should make us ecstatic– a new …