To raise your self-esteem, you need to get away from focusing on people pleasing. Instead, it's time to think what will make you happy. Once you have learnt to love yourself and be happy, you will have so much more energy and love to give to the world that you will naturally make others happy.
Category: happiness
Boost of the Day #109: Tenants in your head
Hard to do, but something to aim for...
Boost of the Day #106: If you can’t find it, be it!
After all the terrible news of late, remember the world is full of good people, and love will always triumph over hatred. If you are ever in a situation where you cannot find a good person, step up and be one!
Heart or Star, press it and make someone feel good
I often talk about how we must not rely on others' opinions to raise our self-esteem, and I stand by this. There will always be people out there who may not like what you do, write or say, so it is vital that we are confident enough within ourselves and our own decisions to keep … Continue reading Heart or Star, press it and make someone feel good
Boost of the Day #98: Create the life you want
To raise your self-esteem and wellbeing, you need to spend time on yourself and on creating a life you enjoy. Spend too much time following a path that others have influenced you to walk, when you dream of heading in a different direction, and you'll eventually be stuck in a life you never really wanted. … Continue reading Boost of the Day #98: Create the life you want
Boost of the Day #89: Description of life…
Love this description of life - lots of ups and downs, a bit of ordinary, and yes it is breathtakingly beautiful. The sooner we can see that, the better.
Boost of the Day #88: Inner happiness
Thanks to pressures from the outside world, we tend to believe that happiness is all about success, money, prestige, popularity...basically anything we can show off to the outside world. However, is someone who is successful, rich and popular necessarily happy? There are several very sad examples, such as Robin Williams and Heath Ledger, which prove … Continue reading Boost of the Day #88: Inner happiness
Boost of the Day #86: Search for happiness in the right place
Sometimes it feels like we're constantly chasing happiness. Even if you have a great job, family, friends and partner, you may still be thinking about how a bigger house and more money will make you happier. Or if you achieve your goal of having a top job, you'll still be chasing that next promotion to 'reach happiness' and have … Continue reading Boost of the Day #86: Search for happiness in the right place
Boost of the Day #85: Your life…
Bit of much-needed motivation on a Monday... When you have those breakthrough moments out of your struggles with mental health and life feels under control again, take the chance to think about the changes you might want to make to your life. What will make you happy? How can you make life better for yourself? Realising … Continue reading Boost of the Day #85: Your life…
Boost of the Day #80: Don’t be a tree
If something is bothering you and it's out of your control, the best thing to do is just breathe and let go. What you need to do is focus on what is in your control, the things that you can change. The other option is to let it carry on bothering you...and life is far too … Continue reading Boost of the Day #80: Don’t be a tree
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