Saturday, April 7, 2012

Engage In 3 Activities That Build Self Esteem

By Crystal Powers


There are many building self esteem activities and exercises that you can do in order to help you increase your feeling of self worth. This is definitely something you should routinely do on your journey to happiness and increased self esteem. Ready to take a closer look at these activities?

Make a list of your good traits.

First of all, it would be useful to write good things you can identify with yourself. These can be anything that you like about yourself, or things that other people might like. It could be something you like about the way you look, or an attractive personality trait, a success that you have had (even if it was a long time ago), or something kind or good that you did.

Aim for a list of 100 items. You can spend a few days doing it, but be sure to add some every day. You should do this for about a week. And when you have reached 100 items, add an extra item every single day.

This can be very helpful as you try to learn how to like yourself more. After a while, looking at this list and adding to it every day, you will naturally come to a point of view where you see that the world is a better place for having you in it.

Reach out to others.

Just by helping others, many people grow to like themselves more. You can feel much better about your own value whenever you take the time to help someone.

Granted, it is also important that you don't overdo it and end up always putting yourself in second place. Always putting yourself at the bottom of the list is only going to validate your low self worth. Even if you are choosing to help, you are doing so of your own accord, not because it is something imposed on you. That way you always stay in control of what you do.

Only choose to be around positive people

It is very possible that anyone looking for ways to raise self-esteem has had problems with low self worth for a long time. without even being aware of it, they have set up their lives in a way that facilitates and validates the low feelings.

Take a look at the people you usually surround yourself with. Are those people always ready to point fingers, judge and criticize? Those people are just confirming your negative feelings about yourself.

Or, are your friends always putting themselves down? Though you might momentarily feel better because of it, it will actually hurt you more than help you in the long run.

No matter what, it is always good to have positive people around you. And, believe it or not, some of those positive people are already around you. The only problem is that you haven't noticed them until now. Take a second look, because this is one of the most effective building self esteem activities that you can do.




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