We often hear psychologists and coaches use this word as they
work with their clients to overcome professional and life challenges.
Is self-esteem a natural quality?
Can we experience it sometimes and then lose it?
Are there skills we can practice to develop it?
What effects does self-esteem have on our
professional and life success and satisfaction?
Brian Tracy, worldwide consultant for Fortune 500 companies
suggests that,
“Your self-esteem is probably the most important part of your personality.
It precedes and predicts your performance in almost everything you do.”
Those who are trained to study personality traits give many
interesting reasons why we do or do not develop self-esteem.
What I found most interesting about these studies is that
self-esteem can be developed like any other success skill.
When you are trying to build a healthy body you work
at it everyday with special training, exercises and diet.
It is the same with trying to build self-esteem.
Day by day and step by step you are working to achieve
a new goal. You may take special training, practice new skills
and progress toward the completion of the goal.
Through consistent efforts you are beginning to develop
a new “muscle” of self-esteem. It is for these efforts you
should appreciate yourself, even if you have “temporarily”failed.
Some easy skills you can begin to practice to start building
your “self-esteem muscles”:
Establish clear and realistic goals
Work consistently every day to achieve a goal.
Notice even your smallest successes at the end of the day.
Take small risks and applaud each success.
See your failures as learning tools for your future.
It would be my privilege and pleasure to work with you to begin
to build your “self-esteem muscles” for your future success.