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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 habit, their self-esteem takes a serious hit.
True self-esteem comes from balancing the wants and needs of others with the wants and needs of yourself.
In order to feel good about yourself, make sure you’re putting fuel in your own tank. And the best ways to do that is to keep your promises to yourself.
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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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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 s...
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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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Toxic self-esteem is easy to notice. One can see a disconnect between how the person sees himself, and how the world sees him.
It is your coworker who’s incompetent in their job but takes credit for other people’s work.
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4. You raise your self-esteem
If I do the right things today I feel really good about myself. If I don't then I don't feel good about myself.
A common question is: “How can I raise my self-esteem?”. The answer is not an easy answer of course (otherwise people wouldn't have so much self-esteem problems in the world today...
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There was a study in 2009 by the psychiatrists Friese and Hoffman on the topic. They discovered that people with little ability to self-regulate end up looking for “everything or nothing” relationships.
That is, their impulsiveness, their hunger to be “fed,” doesn’t accept excuses
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