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1. Spend More Time with People You Actually Enjoy
The people you consistently spend time with affect your wellbeing and self-esteem too.
If you constantly hang around people who don’t particularly like you, that’s gonna rub off and it’s going to be harder to like yourself more. On the other hand, if you spend a lot of time with people who genuinely like you and enjoy spending time with you, it’s going to be much easier to like yourself more.
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Self-esteem is something you can build with better habits.
Most people spend so much time trying to understand their low self-esteem, that they don’t have any energy left to build higher self-esteem. If you want better self-esteem, focus on identifying and building consistent habits that will improve your self-esteem.
Here are four pretty good one...
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2. Practice Gentle Self-Talk
Self-talk is a behavior. It’s something we do. And sometimes, it’s something we do so often that it becomes a habit.
If you’re constantly cruel to yourself, you’re going to feel the same as if another person was constantly cruel to you.
The best way to undo a habit of overly negativ...
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3. Clarify Your Values
Having clear values means you have a well-defined vision for the things that matter most to you.
The term values includes everything from traditional virtues like honesty and integrity all the way down to more mundane but still important commitments like maintainin...
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4. Keep Your Promises to Yourself
People with low self-esteem are usually really good at keeping their promises to other people and really bad at keeping promises to themselves. They’re so concerned with other people’s wants and needs that they end up constantly compromising what they want. And when this compromise becomes a habi...
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Spending time with people that care about you can boost your self-esteem and help you to feel more secure.
Being with people who appreciate you will be in the long run a much more fulfilling use of your time and social energy.
Spending more time with other unhappy people
Negative people tend to attract more negative people. Unhappy people like to have others indulge them while they wallow in self-pity. While we all will feel sad at times, staying unhappy can do more harm than good.
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4. You compare yourself to others every chance you get.
You immediately feel the urge to compare yourself to others. You’ll go out of your way to look for people who are smarter, kinder, better-looking, healthier, nicer, friendlier, etc.
To do:
Remove yourself from situations where you feel like you’re comparing yourself t...
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