High Self Esteem Carries You Through The Down Times: Techniques to Raise Your Self Esteem

Self esteem defines the way you feel about yourself – who you are and how you are in life. Your opinion of you shows up in your demeanor, your posture, your voice tonality and volume, your wardrobe… the list goes on and on.

High self esteem powers you through anything that comes up in life. Low self esteem causes you to confirm why your life continues to look crummy.

Choose to build your self esteem higher than its current level. Even the happiest people on the planet sometimes experience low self esteem in some areas of their lives, at least now and then.

Okay, so how do you raise your self esteem?

You want to take action, do something that changes how you feel about yourself. Maybe when you exercise you get high so you want to finish your workout. The end result? You boosted your endorphins, your feel good hormones.

You also fed your spirit by creating a natural high,

Do not sit around thinking about what to do. Don’t go look for a book or magazine to get and idea of what to do. Just put on your shoes and get moving.

Why get into action?

When you sit around what happens in your mind? You focus on your low opinion of you.

What you focus on expands. How can you expect to feel better and move through challenging times if you have no idea how to raise your self esteem?

Put new ideas in your mind. You do that by creating new habits. You create new habits by taking actions you never did before.

Oh yes – before you can do anything mentioned above, you first must choose to be someone who does those things that you never did before. Until you make that choice you will not take the new and different actions required to move yourself from the low self esteem place to the high self esteem place.

Another habit you want to create is doing something nice for someone else. When you do something that helps another person feel good you cannot help but feel good too. You will feel better yourself as you see that other person light up.

Make a commitment to help others on a regular schedule so you have something to look forward to – and so does that other person or organization. The physic income you will receive will do more than elevate your good feelings about yourself, it will also motivate you to continue that new activity so it will become a habit.