Strategies of Increasing Self-Esteem

Self-esteem is appreciating oneself for who they are your foibles, faults and all.
Someone with a good self-esteem acknowledges both their weaknesses and strengths and
move safely with that knowledge. Having a healthy and good self-esteem enables people to
appreciate their worth, to feel good for who they are and take pride in their accomplishments
and abilities(Maryam, Davoud, Zahra, & somayeh, 2011). There is acknowledgement of
imperfectness and faults, and the faults do not overwhelm their image and life. The first step
is taking a self-esteem inventory by identifying irrational thoughts by identifying weakness.
The first strategy is drawing a line on a paper and on one side writing ten strengths
and the other side ten weakness- helps in identification of known and unknown. Setting
realistic expectations follows the self-esteem inventory, and stopping to berating from
unaccomplished idealistic goals. There should be a need to avoid the cycle of negative
thinking as it reinforces negative self-esteem. Next strategy is grabbing hold of
accomplishments and mistakes by setting aside perfection through acknowledging
achievements for their actual value. Mistakes should pull a person down but should be
learning opportunity for self-growth.
There is a need to explore one-self which will not just help in knowing strengths and
weakness but also open up to new opportunities, new viewpoints, new friendship and new
thoughts. To raise self-esteem, it is a requirement to take risks and try new things that are not
ordinarily done. Next is the will to adjust our own self-image as self-esteem should not be
based with the older version but with the current skills and abilities. The last strategy is
seizing to compare ones abilities and accomplishments with others. Changing of self-esteem
takes patience, time, trial and error with efforts that are both realistic and fair.

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References

Maryam, E., Davoud, M., Zahra, G., & somayeh, B. (2011). Effectiveness of life
skills training on increasing self-esteem of high school students. Procedia – Social And
Behavioral Sciences, 30, 1043-1047. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.10.203