Sunday, November 16, 2008
Positive Self Esteem
POSITIVE SELF-ESTEEM
High self-esteem leads to a happy, gratifying and powerful life. Unless you perceive yourself as worthwhile, you can not have high self esteem. All great world leaders and teachers throughout history have concluded that one must be internally driven in order to be success.
People with high self-esteem grow in conviction, competence and willingness to accept responsibility. They face life with optimism, have better relationships and are more sensitive, motivated, and ambitious. They are open to new opportunities and challenges. They can give and receive criticism and compliments tactfully and with ease.
Self-esteem is a feeling which comes from an awareness of what is good and having done it.
Advantages of high Self-esteem:
• Build strong conviction.
• Creates willingness to accept responsibility.
• Builds optimistic attitude.
• Leads to better relationship and fulfilling lives.
• Makes a person more sensitive to other’s need and develop a caring attitude.
• Makes a person self-motivated and ambitious.
• Makes a person open to new opportunities and challenges.
• Improve performance and increase risk taking ability.
• Helps a person give and receive both criticism and complements tactfully and easily.
They put a mask :
A young executive with poor self-esteem was promoted, but he could not reconcile himself to his new office and position. There was a knock at his door. To show how important and busy he was, he picked up the phone and then asked the visitors to come in. As ...