How to Improve Self-Esteem

Описание: I'm Ms. Bailey. I'm a guidance counsellor. Here are a few quick tips to improve your self-esteem (or help your friends!).

Remember SAGE :

Self-Awareness
Accomplishments
Goal-Setting
Empathy

1. Self Awareness - this is complicted!

Stasis and Change - understand the parts of yourself you CAN act to improve, and the parts that you can't. Focus on the traits and skills over which you have agency.

Stop (blaming other people) - Even if others are to blame for your self-esteem issues, take action over the parts of your situation you can change for yourself and work positively to improve.

Stress (Relief) - take time to reflect on your stressors (5 mins a day) and then work to relieve that stress (30 mins 5x/week).

Slack (with a purpose) - take meaningful, pre-planned time to relax and do an activity that will help you to unwind. But don't slack unintentionally - this can add to lack of self-esteem.

2. Accomplishments

work to acknowledge your own accomplishments, and grow skills/set challenges for yourself that allow you to produce and celebrate accomplishments.

3. Goal-Setting

Set lofty goals - and work on the process not the product - the important part here is that you work towards continual growth and improvement in a number of aspects of your life.

4. Empathy

M- Make a contribution - - volunteer, give back, use your skills, talents, time, or physical strength to help others. Ironically, helping others actually improves OUR OWN self-esteem.

Active Listening - be others-focused when hanging out or in conversation. Seek to identify with their point of view. Ask questions to further understand other people.

Positivity. Work hard, in little bits every day, to become more positive. After a couple weeks of practice (by noticing beautiful or good or excellent people or things around you and learning to celebrate them), you will become a positivity influencer and people will want to be around you.

LINKS AND NOTES

http://www.self-confidence.co.uk/arti...
https://www.lifehack.org/articles/com...

http://www.self-confidence.co.uk/arti...

https://www.about-face.org/

https://genius.com/110298

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-es...

https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/hwc/low-...

https://cmha.bc.ca/documents/body-ima...

http://kidshealth.org/en/teens/self-e...

http://www.self-confidence.co.uk/arti...

Link between Emotional Intelligence and Self-Esteem
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1...

http://reflectd.co/2014/01/20/self-ef...

http://www.nedc.com.au/primary-preven...

http://www.hrdpress.com/site/html/inc...

https://www.mindtools.com/pages/artic...

https://www.lifehack.org/articles/com...

https://www.teachingchildrenphilosoph...

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