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Basically there are two types of self esteem that a person possesses.
Developing your Self Esteem
What do you mean by self esteem?
Self esteem is the opinion that a person has of himself. It is the mind frame that helps a person to realize his own potential and weakness. It helps a person to determine his abilities in his personal, social and business life.
Types of Self Esteem:
Basically there are two types of self esteem that a person possesses.
- Low-self esteem and high-self esteem. Low self esteem generally refers to the downsizing that you implement on your thoughts about your achievement and values. A person having a low self esteem may or may not value any of his positive achievement and may always complain and exaggerate on the obstacle rather then to make the most of the advantages that life have to offered him. Having low self esteem is very disadvantageous for a person as it disables the individual to properly use his skills and succeed in life. Instead a person focus more on the negative side and waste is time and energy feeling sorry for him.
- Developing your self esteem If a person want to make most in his personal and professional life then it's very necessary that he have a high self esteem. The following tips are also useful in developing your self esteem.
- Don't mend attention to Negative Critics Don't take negative criticism too seriously. Positive criticism is not bad and learning from mistakes also helps and individual to grow and progress in your career. But in life you meet many people that shower you with negative criticism which is not on your capability but based on injustice and discrimination. Try to shake off such negative criticism and don't take these matters personally as these people who believe in negative criticism are just small obstacle which can be easily overlooked. This step is very crucial in developing you self esteem.
- Be a Positivist Try to focus on the positive feature of your personality and your expertise rather than to focus on the negative features. This would help you to regain your self-confidence and help you in developing yourself esteem.
- Keep good company Try to maintain a company of those people that have a positive outlook to life and are high esteem individual. This would eventually help you to realize your potential and built a proper career. Instead of being in a company of those people who underestimate you and your achievements.
High self esteem is the ability to appreciate once potential and deal with every day perspective with confidence and dignity. A person having high self esteem is confident of his talents as an individual and is sure about the positive features of his personality and his capability to deal with people and make a proper representation of his image. There is a huge difference between having High self esteem and being overconfidence. Overconfidence means to have unfair believe in once potential and ability whereas high self esteem refer to the truth full analysis of the positive aspect of the person.
