Self-esteem: The Lazy Person’s Guide!

Improving your self-esteem isn’t about becoming selfish, loud, competitive and arrogant. It’s about taking care of yourself so that you have the strength and energy to help and give to others when appropriate.

. You are alive, but you aren’t really living.

It’s about being yourself, and knowing that within you lies the power to create all that you want in life.

concept of self-acceptance is based on the knowledge that we are all fallible human beings, we all make mistakes and nobody is perfect. So although you would like to be 100 per cent perfect all the time, the important thing is to learn to accept that sometimes you will be wrong and you are fallible.

wheel, while you crouch in the back wondering where they will take you next. That’s exactly what low self-esteem does to your life. You are alive, but you aren’t really living.

If you can compare your life to a car, when self-esteem is low you are not in the driving seat. Other people or events are steering the

Intimate relationships that don’t work out, set-backs, knocks, poor health, accidents, the loss of a loved one, financial struggles and so on can all be damaging.

The foundations of low self-esteem are often laid in childhood, but as we grow up stressful life events and adult responsibilities can also cause self-esteem to plummet

When self-esteem is low, ‘life is doubt’.

You may rely excessively on certain things for a feeling of self-worth.