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You’ve Been Conditioned Into Low Self-Esteem—Here’s How to Get It Back

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People often confuse confidence and self-esteem. Confidence is a feeling of self-assurance that arises from the appreciation of one’s abilities (like being a good tennis player or entrepreneur) or qualities (like being funny or pretty), while self-esteem is confidence in one’s own inherent worth or value.

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Goal Setting for Kids: Empowering Future Achievers to Reach Limitless Goals

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Adults achieve greater success by learning how to set goals. In fact, a study conducted by psychology professor Dr. Gail Matthews found that people who simply wrote down their goals “accomplished significantly more” than those who did not. And setting and writing down goals is becoming more commonplace.

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How to Practice Gratitude in Your Daily Life

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Learning how to practice and show gratitude is a healthy habit you can utilize in your daily life. Evidence has shown that engaging in gratitude practices can help people feel more satisfied in life and boost their self-esteem, according to psychological research.

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It’s Healthy to Have High Self-Esteem

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People often describe their self-esteem like a thermometer. If someone is complimenting them or they have done a good job, they have high self-esteem. But if someone belittles them or their work, they tend to have low self-esteem. Is one of your goals to have better self-esteem?

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How to Teach Your Kids About Money

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Lechter says it’s important to teach your kids financial literacy because they see you spend money, but they don’t know how to create it, keep it or invest it. You want them to learn through experience,” Lechter says, noting confidence, self-esteem and lifelong skills come from success and failure alike. Accelerate learning.

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How to Build Self Esteem

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Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap How to Build Self Esteem Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on August 9, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Take inventory of your strengths One of the first things to go, when our self-esteem is low, is our perception of our strengths.

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The 7 Reasons We Fail

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And Harvey Mackay, best-selling author and business speaker, says each one can teach us something valuable, and can show us how to avoid falling back into the same hole. Most of us attain our goals only through repeated effort. Succeeding at one goal won’t eliminate all your problems. Poor self-esteem.