Building Self Esteem–Doing it Right

Building Self
Esteem can be a challenge. In my experience of conducting
stress management programs and counseling for over 20 years, I
found that roughly 99% of those I’ve worked with felt that they needed to
improve self esteem. How could this be?
It’s because most of us
have been taught to base our self-worth on our accomplishments,
skills, physique, financial worth and earnings, ability to help others Little
wonder then when we:
lose skills because of
injury;
lose a close family member
on whom we’re very dependent;
lose our financial nest egg
because the stock market collapses;
do poorly in a course of
study;
have a bad hair day; or
don’t live up to our own
expectations…
we don’t feel good about
ourselves and our self esteem and self confidence are challenged. Ultimately,
this may:
jeopardize our
health;
jeopardize our emotional
well being;
set us up for failure
mechanisms;
have us constantly trying
to impress others;
lead to an identity
crisis;
contribute to
suicide;
cause chronic depression

Why is it when there are so
many programs available for building self esteem and
building confidence that is there a tremendous shortage of
those who have self esteem?
The answer is that if you
analyze most programs, trainings, and techniques for building self
esteem, you’ll see that they actually create the path to easily put
your self esteem self confidence in jeopardy with the first
calamity that comes along in your life.
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