Working on self-esteem is one of the most satisfying things you can do for your life. In fact, self-esteem is one of the most important components for happiness and personal fulfillment. When you have solid self-esteem, you can do whatever you want, you know that you are capable and you can overcome obstacles. On the contrary, low self-esteem greatly reduces your happiness and personal performance, and it is one of the main pillars for depression.
The concept of self-esteem is undervalued, since society focuses more on productivity and economic growth, and little place is left to the person as such, in favor of industrial interests. This generates that there are many people who routinely live, producing, but without fulfilling dreams, without being happy, and without obtaining personal achievements that they judge as satisfactory.
For this reason, in this article I want to show you 5 fundamental benefits of working on self-love, so that you can see the great value that this has not only for your life, but for the family and even for society itself.
1. Working on self-esteem allows you to see yourself objectively, that you can build a solid concept of yourself, and that you can evaluate yourself rationally. When self-esteem is low, you see yourself as something of little importance, which has no value, and you cannot realize or do not use your talents and abilities, because you think that you are little and that you deserve nothing. Therefore, self-concept and self-esteem go hand in hand.
2. A solid self-esteem generates a sense of importance that is vital for your fulfillment and happiness. When there is low self-esteem, you feel that you are not useful and that your life is not important. But when you work on your self-esteem, you know that you have a place in the world, you value your talents and skills, you develop a mission and a life project, and you know that your life can be useful and valuable to society.
3. Working to improve your self-esteem is the foundation for achievement. When you don't believe in yourself, your results will demonstrate this. It is of little use to you to have a life project well constructed if you feel that you are little and that you are not capable of anything. With a healthy self-esteem, you fulfill your dreams, achieve goals and stay firm in a life project. What's more, the issue gets complicated when you start to have good achievements, but low self-esteem means that the values don't, you feel that this was your obligation or that anyone can do it.
4. As I mentioned, low self-esteem is one of the fundamental pillars for depressive states, even often reaching clinical depressions that require professional intervention. That is why working on self-esteem has a protective role for mental illness and emotional disorders. It is similar to when you have good diet and exercise habits, with which you prevent heart problems; When you work on self-esteem, you prevent numerous mental health problems.
5. Another advantage is that solid self-esteem is the basis for the development of society. So far we have talked about how healthy self-esteem provides you with numerous individual benefits, but in reality, when your self-esteem is healthy, your actions and your achievements inevitably have an impact on the community, you are more productive, you fulfill a project of life that serves others, and also you give the most of yourself, contributing to the development of society as such. Practically all those who have impacted the world have in common that they believed in themselves and did not give up in the face of adversity, based on a solid self-esteem.
Of course, there are numerous other advantages to working on self-esteem; However, if you are clear about the ones we have just discussed, they will be enough for you to value the strengthening of self-love as one of the most important goals of life.
I invite you to take a look at the virtual book "Effective Strategies to Strengthen Self-esteem", where you will find many ways and considerations in the task of working for your self-esteem. Your life will not be the same after reading and applying what this book says. If you liked the article, like it and share it. Let us know your comments at the bottom of the article, and give us your opinion.
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I wish you the greatest blessings.
Guillermo Mendoza Vélez
www.SaludMentalyEmocional.com
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