5 Habits To Protect Your Self-Esteem
We often undermine our self-esteem without realizing it, but there are simple habits you can learn to avoid destroying your self-esteem. Think of them as some important guidelines for living a happy and fulfilling life.
1. Respect yourself
Respecting yourself is essential for a strong sense of self. But how can we respect ourselves? First, we must recognize and meet our needs and our values. We cannot always keep ourselves in the background and always put the needs of others first. If we don’t know how to please ourselves, we are probably not good at keeping others happy either.
Express your feelings and don’t feel guilty for doing this. Showing your anger towards someone or something (in a productive way) does not make you a bad person. Appreciate all the facets of yourself that make you proud. Think about them often.
2. Practice Acceptance
Accepting yourself is very important if you really want to live your life. If you don’t, you will somehow be living a lie.
Your life should be original and completely yours. Don’t try to be like everyone else. Maybe you compare yourself to others and they seem perfect, but are they really? Learn to love your life and accept yourself. Only then will you be able to live happily and harmoniously.
3. Acknowledge your mistakes
If you don’t admit your mistakes, you will live your whole life with excuse after excuse. All this will do is cost a huge amount of energy.
Learn from your mistakes! Look sincerely at your mistake and the excuses you made and take responsibility for everything. Where did it go wrong? What happened? Don’t dodge your responsibility with a bunch of new excuses. Take advantage of this moment to learn and improve as a person. Mistakes don’t make us weak or vulnerable. On the contrary! They make us stronger and help us be prepared for future mistakes.
4. Be mindful of self-criticism
Being critical of ourselves isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but be careful! Sometimes that critical voice that lives inside you can destroy you. So you must destroy him instead.
When our critical voice is negative and discouraging, it stands in the way of our progress and we must stop it.
You will never do this right. Our critical voice whispers this softly, in the back of our minds. When he appears, think, “And how do I know I’ll never get this right? Have I ever tried it? Have I failed?” Sometimes you have to run into a problem more than once until you learn. If you want something, work hard to get it. Silence that poisonous voice.
You’re even worse than them. No one is better or worse than anyone else – we are all different! It’s best to see how we can complement each other or help each other work on something. Never compare yourself to others. Learn and work hard and be yourself. You are unique, original and different, just like everyone else.
They don’t like me. Are you sure? Did you ask them? You may be misinterpreting the signals coming from them. And even if they don’t like you, who cares! Then the world won’t end, will it?
5. Don’t rely on outside approval
A common mistake is to always seek the approval of others. This is just an example of deep uncertainty.
Don’t try to please others. If you have a different opinion, let us know! Keep in mind that if others don’t approve of something, it’s because you allow it.
Be firm in your decisions and in your actions and thoughts. Others will never agree with you on everything, so think about it and be yourself!
Seeking the approval of others, thinking we are no better than anyone else, making excuses for ourselves non-stop, not saying what we really think… sounds familiar, doesn’t it? We hope this will help you be happier and get you where you want to be. Just you and no one else!
