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Esteem and happiness

Happiness is a gift.  Happiness is also a matter of personal choice. What’s happening to us in the outside world is often an inside job. We can approach daily circumstances with an attitude of our choosing.  When esteem is an important part … Continue reading

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Life experience through self-esteem

We encounter many situations in life that go against our wishes and make us uncomfortable. This attitude comes from our desire to be able to control life as much as possible.  The less control we have, the less comfortable we feel.  … Continue reading

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Self-esteem and self-respect

It’s so easy to say that a high self-esteem shows that we respect ourselves.  But what exactly does self-respect mean?  Is there a way to develop self-respect in a healthy way? There’s a simple step we can take to find … Continue reading

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Esteem’s positive perspective of life

How we perceive life situations depends on our general attitude toward life. If our perspective toward life is determined by a feeling of incertitude and fear we may perceive certain life situations as threatening.  If our perspective toward life is led by esteem … Continue reading

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Esteem step by step

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”  This proverb of Confucius expresses an attitude which can be applied to esteem as well as life generally. As long as we integrate esteem into our … Continue reading

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Our health deserves esteem

Health is something we only recognize when we don’t have it anymore.  We can change this attitude toward health by showing esteem for our health. The first step of showing esteem for our health is to recognize how healthy we are.  The … Continue reading

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Can we change other people?

We don’t change other people, people change themselves.  But a healthy self-esteem can be a positive example to encourage others to make their own changes. Having a high self-esteem means that we are self-confident in what we are and what we do in a healthy … Continue reading

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Self-esteem and self-talk

“Don’t say inside, what you cannot say outside.”  This quote could sum up the way we think about how our self-esteem expresses itself. How are you speaking with your inner voice about yourself?  We’re not talking about the soliloquies.  We’re talking about the little inner comments we … Continue reading

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Self-esteem and self-concept

We have a certain picture of ourselves with which we try to define our attitudes, believes and opinions.  This picture can be weak and fragile or strong and self-confident. How we think about ourselves is called our self-concept. To find out what … Continue reading

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Esteem means clearing out our minds

When we integrate esteem in our life we experience an inner calmness which we also call serenity. To be able to reach serenity we need to clear out our minds.  In fact it’s like clearing out our homes from clutter.  … Continue reading

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