Self-Esteem Is Your Armour Against Life
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Do you talk about yourself in a genuinely positive way? If not, I think you should because being positive about yourself is the natural way of discover how healthy your self-esteem is.
A healthy self-esteem is like an armour against the world. It gives you an easier time handling conflicts and resisting the negative opportunities open to you.
This armour makes you are more realistic and optimistic person who smiles a lot, always enjoying life.
With this armour you go into the world to fight challenges that just cause anxiety and frustration, giving you low self-esteem. If you think poorly of yourself you will struggle to find good solutions. If you keep thinking you’re no good you will become depressed and just constantly think “I can’t”.
How you feel about yourself defines your character, how you motivate yourself, what your outlook on life is and so on. This can define your emotional stability in how you control your feelings. Self-Esteem is how you perceive yourself in the world.
A healthy self-esteem must strike the right balance between the feelings of belonging and being wanted against the certainty in ones own abilities. Being unbalanced here will lead to low self-esteem. Self-esteem can always change as you go through the world gaining new experiences and learning about yourself. Having your armour on in the first place just makes thinks bounce off making life that little bit easier.
Without the armour, each learning experience might chip away at you, depleting your coping abilities and turning you into a quitter. Setbacks become set in stone failures, instead of moments of joy in learning something new.
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