Improving Your Self-Esteem

Following is a continuation of a list of personal strengths, courtesy of Martin Seligman in the book Authentic Happiness (Free Press). Look at this list and decide what your strongest strengths are – not strengths that you sometimes have, but strengths that actually define the authentic you. Using these strengths every day in work, parenting […]

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Quit Being a Doormat!

Note: This is the second of a two-part series. Click here for part one If you are a “doormat,” you take care of other people, and you have a hard time taking care of yourself—and allowing yourself to be taken care of. Doormats usually need to be perfect, telling themselves things like “I always need […]

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Are You a Doormat?

Note: This is the first of a two-part series. Click here for part two Are you a doormat?  Do you see yourself as having little or no personal power with other people?  Do you seek validation from others because you lack confidence in your own abilities and because you have poor self-esteem?  Do you feel […]

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What’s Right With You? (Part 2)

Note: This is the second of a two-part series. Click here for part one The following questions are designed to help you explore how you can increase your sense of personal power, self-worth and self-esteem—by exploring where in life you’ve been intelligent, kind, healthy, strong, courageous or wise.  These questions come courtesy of Carlene and […]

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What’s Right With You? A Self Evaluation

Note: This is the first of a two-part series. Click here for part two If you are like most of us, you focus most of your personal attention on your problems and your challenges—on the things that aren’t going so well in your life.  Things such as relationship troubles, financial worries, career stumbles or dead-ends, […]

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Agreements With Self Lead to Higher Self-Esteem

Looking for better self-esteem?  Higher self-worth?  Increased self-confidence? The following ideas about how to achieve a better relationship with yourself—which are really good rules for living—are taken from Don Miguel Ruiz’s excellent book The Four Agreements (Amber-Allen Publishing). If you want better self-esteem, make the following four agreements with yourself and then be sure to […]

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