Have you tried and failed to lose weight, quit smoking or break another bad habit? Perhaps your self-esteem could use a boost. Build your self-esteem with these strategies:
1: Love and accept yourself. Do you find it easy to belittle yourself or your accomplishments? Try to turn that view around by noting your positive characteristics and qualities.
2: Accept compliments graciously. Shrugging them off tends to reinforce your own negative view of your accomplishments.
3: Disassociate your "self" from failure. You may fail at a task, but that doesn't make you a failure. You may make mistakes, but your mistakes are not a part of you.
4: Learn from mistakes or lapses. Every time you fail to reach a goal, take time to find out what held you back.
5: Silence your inner critic. Refute the inner voice that insists you're not good at achieving goals by making a positive statement about your abilities.
Source: Good Neighbor Pharmacy Health Connection, August 2013
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