Healthy Self Esteem Allows You To Believe In Yourself And Your Dreams

By Sharon A. Michaels

Self-doubt can destroy self-confidence and chip away at healthy self-esteem. Healthy self-esteem allows you to believe in yourself one hundred percent. Achieving your true potential and living your life's mission, starts by totally believing in yourself and your positive dreams for the future.

A recent study found that people with unhealthy self-esteem consistently distrusted their judgment, felt more hopeless and were afraid of the future. Many in the study also suffered from the nagging fear of incompetence and self-doubt.

You probably know from past experience that whatever you fear most usually becomes a reality in your everyday life. If in your mind the future is distressing, it will probably turn out to be distressing in reality too.

How can you change this? Value and believe in your abilities to keep heading forward, toward a healthy, happy and productive future. If you consistently live with self-doubt, you begin feeling unworthy and undeserving of success and happiness.

Nagging feelings of unworthiness and being undeserving can produce many forms of "self-abuse" including: negative self-talk and many different types of self-sabotaging behaviors. All of this adds up to unhealthy self-esteem.

Your belief in yourself is very personal. Make time to list all your special and unique talents and qualities. Take the time to truly appreciate and nurture all of those special talents. Right now, can you list your top ten talents? Pretty impressive, aren't they? How about making some time every day to appreciate yourself and affirm your many wonderful talents and qualities?

Here's a sure-fire way to enhance self-esteem: Concentrate on your abilities and talents, not your short-comings. Focus on the great things you've accomplished. The perfect person does not exist. If you're consistently striving for perfection you'll more than likely end up experiencing frustration and discouragement.
You can do a great job enhancing self-esteem by fully and totally believing in your ability to succeed.

Value yourself, even if others seem not to believe in you and your dreams. Sometimes the people closest to you just don't have the ability to give the encouragement you often want and need. Draw on your powerful inner motivators to keep going positively forward.

Begin a journal to document all of the powerful and positive things you've accomplished for the day. Before going to bed, write at least one positive thing you've created or accomplish that day. In a few months you'll have so many positive accomplishments that your self-esteem will be growing healthier and your self-confidence will become unshakable.

What have you done today to enhance your self-esteem?

Sharon A. Michaels is an e-mentor to women who want to work for themselves. Sharon has over 20 years of business, speaking and writing experience on issues of ending self-sabotage, living in abundance and wealth and making money in network marketing. Sharon offers books, webinars and tele-conferences on how to give yourself the power to succeed.

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