Self esteem.ppt
- 1. Self-Esteem
- 2. WHYstudy: SELF-ESTEEM To have a more positive self-awareness To see yourself honestly and to like or at least accept yourself To remove the internal barriers that keep you from doing your best.
- 3. The way YOU THINK and FEEL about yourself Can change from MOMENT to
- 4. Feeling POSITIVELY about yourself, your actions, and your future
- 6. Feeling NEGATIVELY about yourself, your actions, and your future
- 7. of people with LOW People with low self- esteem are often drawn to each other – these relationships are often destructive – hurtful rather than helpful
- 8. Seek to understand whatever has an influence on your life – be aware of the world around you Be respectful toward yourself – refuse to reject yourself Recognize that you are the source of your own choices, actions – YOU make your life what it is
- 9. Exhibit your principles of behavior to others. Keep your promises and honor your commitments Take responsibility for identifying your goals Stand up for your values and feelings – find appropriate ways to express them
- 10. Components of Self Esteem SE has two basic components. 1. Self efficacy: Confidence in the ability to cope with life challenges. It leads to a sense of control over one’s life.
- 11. 2. Self respect: • Experience oneself as deserving of happiness, achievement and love. • Self respect makes possible a sense of community with others.
- 12. Pillars of Self Esteem 1. Self Acceptance : To be self accepting is to own and experience, without rejection or disowning, the reality of, our thoughts ,emotions and actions.
- 13. 2. Living Consciously: • To live consciously is to be present to what we are doing: • Facing facts that might be uncomfortable or threatening; • To be aware of the world external to self and also to world within.
- 14. 3. Self Responsibility: • To be self responsible is to recognize that we are the author of our choices and actions; • That we must be then ultimate source of our own fulfillment; • That no one is coming to make our life right for us ,or Make us happy, or Give us self esteem.
- 15. 4. Self Assertiveness: • The willingness to express appropriately , our thoughts , values, and feelings. • To stand up for ourselves, To speak and act from our deepest convictions.
- 16. 5. Living purposefully: • Setting goals and working to achieve them, rather than ,living at the mercy of chance and outside forces.
- 17. 6. Integrity: • Acting in equivalence with what we believe is right. • To keep our promises and honor our commitments.
- 18. WAYS TO IMPROVE YOUR SELF- ESTEEM • FOCUS ON YOUR SUCCESSES, and do not reside on past failures. • EMPHASIZE YOUR STRENGTHS, not your weaknesses. • LOOK AT YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS, and what you did, versus comparing yourself to others or what they did. • ASSOCIATE WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE POSITIVE, don’t become the skeptic. • FIND WAYS TO COOPERATE, don’t fight new ideas or new people
- 19. • Make every day special; look for WHAT YOU CAN DO to make things work better so you can enjoy each day (at work and home). • When things get you down, REMEMBER WHO, AND WHAT, MAKES YOU HAPPY. • CALL ON YOUR SPIRITUAL STRENGTHS, you are valuable and have an important purpose in your life. • WRITE DOWN THE POSITIVE COMMENTS people give you every day; read them back to yourself every morning. • TREAT OTHERS WITH DIGNITY and respect, they will be more likely to treat you that way too.