The difference that a statement can make in the life of a man, woman, or child is nothing short of phenomenal.

Change your mind - change your life!

Ways to Improve Self Esteem.

There are many ways to improve self esteem. The following is a fairly extensive list of things you can do to help your self image. You can decide to do a few of them or a lot of them, it's up to you. Just remember that any thing you do to move your self esteem in a positive direction will add to your life. Do nothing - add nothing.

Are you having trouble finding ways to improve self esteem? Here's the list:

 

 

  • 1. Focus on achievements
  • 2. Focus on the positive
  • 3. Focus on what you like about yourself
  • 4. Accept yourself
  • 5. Silence your inner critic
  • 6. Socialize with positive people
  • 7. Refuse to compare yourself with anyone
  • 8. Make your living space a happy place
  • 9. Forgive yourself
  • 10. Commit to change
  • 11. Enjoy the journey
  • 12. Learn to set goals
  • 13. Take initiative
  • 14. Allow for failures and mistakes
  • 15. Pre-plan your response to situations you may face
  • 16. Take care of your physical self
  • 17. Help others
  • 18. Reward yourself
  • 19. Do things well
  • 20. Do things you enjoy
  • 21. Learn a new skill or ability
  • 22. Dress well
  • 23. Finish what you start
  • 24. Use positive affirmations

Before Starting Self Esteem Actions

Now that you have your list of ways to improve self esteem, take note right now and remember this most important fact: Regardless of the ways to improve self esteem you use, when you begin you are going to have feelings of resistance. Your inner voice will mock you, condemn you, and tell you all sorts of lies. It will! This is normal and the way to deal with it in a most effective manner will be discussed at the end of this page.

For now acknowledge that feeling, and those thoughts. You might find it helpful to address them out loud. Say something like "thank you for giving me your opinion, I choose to disagree with you and think something better".

The good news is that these feelings and thoughts will diminish as you begin to feel better about yourself.

Ways to Improve Self Esteem that Deal with the Inner Voice

As mentioned above, sometimes you are your own worst enemy. Sometimes the most critical, insulting and abusive words you have to deal with come from yourself. This is not at all uncommon or unusual. What is unusual is to find a way to deal with it. This way to Improve Self Esteem is the mother of all self esteem activities. It will exorcise those negative, insulting, and abusive self messages right out of your life.

These messages were learned when you were young. They came from many sources, from people who love you and from people who don't. Perhaps even from people who don't even know you or from people who don't even know you exist (magazine writers, celebrities, etc.), or from bigots and prejudiced mouth pieces. Once you learned them and applied them to yourself you repeated them over and over to yourself. This repetition happens especially when you're feeling bad, frustrated and having a hard time.

Over time you've come to believe these messages as being true for you. These negative messages will make you feel like crap. They will keep your self esteem low and hold it there. You can do the exercises posted above till you are old and ready to retire but until you deal with that inner voice it will always be a fight and a struggle.

The solution comes in the form of a highly developed affirmation exercise. Science has discovered that the subconscious mind can be programmed through methods that are effective and powerful. The most powerful method for programming your subconscious mind - the place where these negative messages live - is to use affirmations coupled with brainwave entrainment.

Brainwave entrainment technology combined with affirmations can wipe your self talk slate clean and give you a whole new way of talking to yourself. This will put you on an upward and self perpetuating spiral that will help you develop a healthy positive self esteem that you could only dream about before.

Ways to improve Self Esteem will fall into place when your subconscious mind adopts a new way of thinking - a new thought habit.