Think Good of Yourself

“The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Self-esteem means affirming your own worth.

For success and happiness, how you see yourself matters more than almost anything else. If you come to see yourself as worthless or unworthy, you’ll feel you don’t deserve good times, close friends, loved ones and personal success. You won’t believe people could like you, associate with you or love you, so you won’t do what’s necessary to build these relationships. You won’t believe you deserve success, so you won’t do the hard things that will make it happen.

If you’re like other people, you probably make occasional mistakes. When you do, it’s all too easy to criticize yourself. If you persist in punishing yourself, you may conclude that you’re unworthy. Feelings of guilt can make you believe you’re a bad person.

Nobody’s perfect. When you make mistakes, you need to forgive yourself so you can make changes, get back on track and move on. You know how hard it is to like a person who doesn’t like himself. That’s a good reason for being your own best friend! You can accept your imperfections more easily if you recognize your intention to learn, improve and grow from your mistakes.

You may be imperfect, but you have significant strengths and huge reserves of goodness within you. You deserve the love of your friends, as well as success from your best efforts.

Article Source: http://www.articledestination.com

Dennis E. Coates is CEO of Performance Support Systems, author of MindFrames, a brain-based personality assessment system (www.initforlife.com) and co-founder of the Train-to-Ingrain alliance (www.train-to-ingrain.com, info@train-to-ingrain.com, 800-488-6463), which delivers a reinforcement-centered approach to learning and development that achieves permanent, measurable improvements in workplace behavior and positive impacts on business results.

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