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 …
The work fairy has been kind to me. Over the years, I’ve held some pretty good positions and was involved in many impactful projects—the types that attract lots of attention from the guys upstairs. I’ve been mentored by a CEO and have worked closely with all kinds of C-execs. Pretty lucky, wouldn’t you say? How …
We tend to forget how much power we hold in our hands. We make a choice every day– to be happy, to be kind, and to be confident. If you lack confidence, just opt for a different choice tomorrow. Decide that you want to be confident, that you want to love yourself more, that are …
Remember, lifting your confidence is not a task reserved only for the therapists. You don’t need others to tell you how much you are worth. You have all the motivation, the desire and the tools you will ever need—within your mind— to initiate your own journey toward finding your voice in the crowd. And with …
Building confidence is a process, not a point in time. It’s a journey of personal development. It requires small changes first, so we can learn to “walk” again, then run, and finally—challenge ourselves in a marathon. It’s not an overnight miracle either. The best way to think about enhancing self-esteem is as a personal project …
Confidence is…knowing that you won’t be liked by everyone and being ok with it. Often, it means that you are finally doing something right by yourself, not others.
The Terror Management theory of self-esteem is an interesting concept. Human behavior, it says, is motivated by the awareness that death is inevitable. The tension — that we want to live and that we will all die one day –creates anxiety. Therefore, we need self-esteem as it serves as a buffer—it helps us to decrease the terror and to alleviate the fear of demise, which otherwise “paralyzes” and prevents us from pursuing our life goals.
Self-esteem is about progress. About aiming to do better, to learn new things, to improve. Our worth is measured through our desire and ability to grow, not through how much more we have compared to the Joneses…
It’s ok to not feel upbeat and confident every day. You can have “relapse” days – you are allowed to take a break, to regain your strength, to re-focus. What matters is that you keep trying, that you don’t give up, that you move forward toward your dreams. If you took a step back today, …
Why do we so often fail to build an impartial self-image, and end up, instead, with a biased one? The simple version of what’s a rather complex and perhaps a very lengthy answer is that: the swayers are just way too many.