Low Self Esteem Help – Part 2 of Ways To Boost Low Self Esteem
1. If you are feeling afraid, identify your fears and then try to confront them. Visualizing yourself as overcoming your fears will make you overcome your uneasiness and make you more confident.
2. You can feel confident when you know both your strengths and your weaknesses. Knowing your weakness will quickly tell you when it is time to seek help from others.
3. Try to stay optimistic and positive whatever the situation. While it is true that you will be facing some very tough challenges in life, the only way you can truly face them is by staying positive. When you are facing a tough situation, the best option is to see how you can tackle it or make it better rather than complaining endlessly about it.
4. Many people think of optimism as a state of denial. However, that is not true. Staying positive and optimistic implies being aware of what the circumstances are and taking steps, importantly, positive, proactive steps to find solutions.
5. Identify and overcome your feelings of jealousy. Do not let jealousy cloud your judgment. Learn from the success of others to plan your own.
6. Practice being assertive. You have to learn to stand up and protect your self-respect. Even if you have made a mistake, you do not have to take unconstructive negative criticism from anyone.
7. However great the pressure, learn to say no when you think necessary. Rather than compromise on your values, you should be assertive and protect them. You will feel proud of yourself and your self-confidence will be strengthened.
8. You have unique abilities and talents that will bring you success in ways different from others. Learn to accept compliments and your success without any justification.
9. It is very important that you exercise regularly. Exercise will make you feel better about yourself and will of course bring you obvious physical benefits. Take up an activity that you enjoy and more importantly that you feel you will be able to take up regularly. Do not take up something very ambitious – start small. Just walking or running in the morning should also do you good. If you do not feel motivated enough when you do it alone, try to go out with a friend.
10. Even when you are feeling emotionally disturbed, one of the best things you could is find emotional release in a manner that you find satisfying. Some find going for a quick jog relaxing while others prefer to relax with music.
