Any good tips for building selfesteem?
By katie0
@katie0 (5203)
Japan
December 19, 2012 4:10am CST
Do you think people with less self esteem are more in a bad mood or the amount of good and bad mood is equal for both? How about the tips for building a good one? I always want to go back to that to make sure I'm always doing everything right. In a world of cruel things out there we often forget about ourselves to help others, someone comes and point the finger or criticize and there I am forgeting to take care of my heart too, that it needs to be cared just like my 'pet' kids.
A good self talk, like stopping ourselves of continuing that bad self dialogue, recognizing our limits, knowing our qualities, remembering good deeds we did, helping others, being selfless, knowing to love and have compassion, learning new things all the time, meditation, yoga, good diet (mine is vegan as mylot friend knows 
), what else can help?
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5 responses
@maximax8 (31053)
• United Kingdom
20 Feb 13
I eat a vegan diet and I care about animals welfare. I think a healthy diet and exercise can help build self esteem. I think a person can become happier with doing some of his or her hobbies and gaining better skills. I believe helping other people can build someones self esteem. I believe in being kind to others especially children, old people and animals.
@savypat (20216)
• United States
20 Dec 12
Good parenting is the key to this, without this, which many of us have to deal with it's an uphill battle. I wish I knew a magic way to obtain selfesteem once one is past childhood. I have always been short on this myself. I did try to
as a parent to instill this in my children. To this day I'm not sure how well I did. Even if the world grants you recognition if you didn't have good parenting as a child it's hard to accept self worth from other outside sources.
@WakeUpKitty (8694)
• Netherlands
19 Dec 12
Love yourself will help. Pamper yourself will help. Believe in yourself will help. Telling yourself there are no limits, you are able to learn everything will help. Avoiding negative people will help. Be proud on yourself will help. Being on your own will help. It's not about what others think what counts but what you think does, so that will help as well. Plus remembering that you will never be able to satisfy everyone, but you are able to satisfy yourself.
@babyeve (1048)
• Seychelles
20 Dec 12
Just simply by being yourself and not caring about what others expects from you. I have come to realise that no matter what you try to do to please others, they will always find ways to put you down and criticise you. Believe in yourself and feel proud to be who you are. :)
@devonavis (1854)
• Greece
19 Dec 12
I think we also focus on removing the negative self-esteem. Start from within. Let us ignore any destructive criticisms or insults because our opinion of ourselves is the most important opinion of all. Let us also create daily affirmations telling ourselves that I am a wonderful person who deserves to be happy. Let us apologize to other persons we've hurt, learn from our mistakes and then forgive our selves.
We also start with small steps to gain confidence such as our ability to make and stand to our decisions.
Don't always try to please others but be your own person.
Let us face our fears and learn from our failures. Finally but most importantly, let us confide in God whom we believe.
