Developing A Healthy Self Esteem Posted by Unknown , Wednesday, 27 February 2013 at 09:25, in

Nobody is perfect. That is why people make mistakes. We all have our strength and weaknesses and acknowledging them is a step in the right direction if you want to develop or maintain a healthy self esteem. You should know that although you have your weaknesses, there are other aspects of your life that you are so good at. People with a good and healthy self-esteem are able to feel good about themselves for who they are, appreciate their own worth, and take pride in their abilities and accomplishments. They also acknowledge that while they’re not perfect and have faults, those faults don’t play an overwhelming or irrationally large role in their lives or their own self-image.

These steps will guide you in your quest to maintain that healthy feeling of self worth:

Take a Self-Esteem Inventory:

List out your weaknesses and strengths and arrange them side by side. This should help you know what aspects of you needs improvement and what aspects you need to work better on as well as the aspects you are doing so good at.

Set realistic expectations:

When we set unrealistic expectations, we often get greatly discouraged when we do not get to achieve them. In real sense, this was due to the fact that the expectations which see,ed right at the time they were formed were actually unrealistic. By setting realistic expectations, we increase our success-failure ratio and this improves or builds a good feeling of self worth.

Explore yourself:

Know who you really are: your strength and weaknesses. Many people who succeed go through this step. It pays to know that this Is what you are not good at and this is what you are so good at. Exploring yourself also involves opening up to new thoughts, ideas, opportunities, activities or processes.

Be self adjusting:

Keep adjusting your self-image and self-esteem to match your current abilities and skills, not those of your past. Yes! you could have been able to do it three to five years ago but obviously, you are getting older.

Stop comparing yourself to others:

This may seem difficult for starters but it is very important. You have to stop comparing yourself to others. No two people are the same. Your weakness may be somebody’s strength and your strength could be another person’s weakness.

Self care:

You should devout some time to take care of your elf this is connected with the feeling of being important to yourself.

Self talk: Be conscious of what you say to yourself. If you are so used to insulting yourself or dwelling on how many mistakes you have made in your life time, you would find it difficult to nurture a healthy self esteem.