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Posted: Dec Sun 17, 2006 1:07 pm Post subject: Self Esteem |
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Self Esteem
This could have a huge influence on your business building . . . .
14 Steps to Self Esteem
1. Relax and take it easy.
2. Do what is right and you will be a lot happier as it affects your attitude about yourself.
3. Care about others by balancing the caring with limits. A good friend helps others keep out of trouble.
4. Have expectations of others which are realistic, taking into account each person's specific talents, gifts, abilities, and potential.
5. Learn to laugh; look for humor in life and experience it.
6. Start helping others to see themselves positively . . . by accepting them, loving them, and encouraging them. Give them the dignity they deserve.
7. Behave assertively (but not aggressively) even in threatening situations, particularly when you don't feel like doing so.
8. Be positive. See how long you can go without saying something negative about another person or situation.
9. Lead others with influence and wise guidance rather than with aucratic power.
10. Associate with friends who are positive, who delight in you, and who enjoy life.
11. Concentrate on acceptance -- not criticisms from other people.
12. When you fail, admit it and then refuse to condemn yourself. Remember, you are in the process of becoming. Growth takes time. Be as kind to yourself as you would be (or would hope to be) to any other person.
13. Do not compare yourself with others. You are a unique person.
14. Do not label yourself negatively ("I am clumsy" and so on). You tend to become the label you give yourself.
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Ways to Build Your Self Esteem
Learn something new every day.
Do whatever it takes to make you feel sure of yourself.
Cultivate people who give you a feeling of importance.
Put out of your life anybody who puts you down.
Do something ever day that you do extraordinarily well.
Concentrate on the things you life about yourself.
If you can change the things about yourself that bother you, do it immediately!
Always remember that the people around you who seem so controlled and even smug could be fighting back pure panic.
(From Jo Foxworth, "Boss Lady's Arrival and Survival" 1986, Warner Books, Inc., New York.) |
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