Why Would You Choose Low Self Esteem?

Are you saying yes to low self esteem?

What exactly is self esteem? In very basic terms, self esteem is how you view yourself.

As an example, do you like what you see every morning when you look in the mirror?

When your opinion of yourself is positive, you are said to have high self esteem. When your opinion of yourself is negative, you are said to have low self esteem.

However, as we'll learn a little later, there is a lot more to self esteem than our mere opinion of ourselves.

Far too many people in this world are willing to settle for low self esteem.

It's important to note that self esteem is much more than the simple definition given above. Self esteem in reality, is the power that drives your life wherever you want it to go.

With this power, you can truly achieve your dreams, whatever your dreams may be. Perhaps a beautiful home, a fulfilling marriage relationship, a loving family, a closet full of clothes, travel, a rewarding career, whatever success means to you.

True success can only be achieved through the power of positive self esteem.

You will achieve very little without positive self esteem. Low self esteem has no power. Low self esteem will give you nothing but heartache and disappointment.

Trying to boil a huge kettle of water over a tiny match would compare to attempting to get through life with low self esteem. It's an exercise in futility.

To achieve your dreams, you need the mega power a positive self image delivers.

A self image that gives you the power to be totally relaxed and self confident in any social setting.

A self image that gives you the power to function confidently outside your perceived comfort zone.

A self image that gives you the confidence to make your own decisions even in the face of negative comments from others.

A self image that gives you complete power to accomplish anything you want.

With positive self esteem, you have unlimited power. With negative self esteem, you have no power.

Read this next section very carefully - Choosing positive self esteem is critical. Yes, self esteem is a choice.

We can choose high self esteem, or we can choose low self esteem. Self esteem is a choice, we make that choice many times a day.

You may say, but I'm too shy, or I'm not pretty, or I can't think fast enough, or nobody thinks I can do that. However, by making these comments, you have made your choice, and you have chosen low self esteem.

You need to understand, the choice is yours. You can choose high self esteem, or you can choose low self esteem.

You are still the same person no matter which choice you make, that does not change. However, choosing high, or low, self esteem makes an enormous difference. It means everything to your future.

By choosing high self esteem, you can achieve anything you want. If you choose low self esteem, you get nothing. Isn't high self esteem the better choice? There's really no other choice is there?

Now, it's time for a small exercise. If, all your life, you have chosen low self esteem, for just one moment look back as if you had chosen high self esteem.

What would your life be today?

The choice is yours.

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