Archive for 'Self Esteem' Category
What is Pride (Self Admiration)?
9 February 2007When I was writing out the 8 Components of True Inner Confidence I used the term admiration over pride because there’s a lot of negative connotations associated, erroneously I believe, with feeling proud.
Like most things, these concepts are vague and in need of clarification. I think that admiration(which I use synomously with pride here) has […]
Forgiving Yourself
27 October 2006How often have you spent berating yourself over past mistakes? And more importantly, how much has this practice enriched your own life? Guilt and shame hold us back so much from truly accepting ourselves as worthwhile people.If we’re caught up in negative thinking, we will have a tendency to blame all our ‘failures’ on our […]
Some quick and powerful affirmations to build Self Esteem
23 October 2006I was playing around with some of my affirmations the other day. Affirmations work well if they help generate a feeling you want and make the destiny you are creating for yourself that bit more real.
“I am enough†is a really simple, really powerful affirmation for any time you feel you don’t deserve some of […]