Brian Tracy explains that self-esteem, how much you like and respect yourself, drives happiness and success. Build it by recognizing your strengths, writing down big goals, using discipline on what matters most, and finishing tasks to trigger positive feelings.
A turning point in my life came when I learned that your level of self esteem is the critical determinant of your happiness and your success in life. And your self esteem is defined as how much you like yourself, how much you respect yourself, how much you value yourself in your interactions with other people. And the more you like yourself and value yourself, the more you like and value other people. And the more you like and value other people, the more they value you right back. We also found out that self esteem is like physical fitness. You can actually build your self esteem consistently over time by doing and saying certain things. So the starting point of building your self esteem is for you to have a clear sense of who you are and what you want. Let's say, what are your very best qualities? What are your very best skills and abilities? What are the things that you do or have done in the past that account for most of your success? When you think back on the things that you're good at and the things that you enjoy and the things that make you happy, you'll find that you like yourself and respect yourself even more. A second way to build your self esteem is to set goals is to say, if I could achieve anything at all in life, what would I like to achieve in the weeks and months and years ahead? And write it down, write it down, write it down. Here's what psychologists have discovered. Setting big goals for yourself improves your self image and raises your self esteem. You actually like yourself and respect yourself more. When you have big goals for your life, you have more self confidence and you're happier about yourself. A third way to build your self esteem is through self discipline. We say that self esteem leads to self discipline and self discipline increases your self esteem. So that means setting priorities on your work, saying to yourself, what is the most important thing I could do right now? And then disciplining yourself to do that. Now here's the key and it's the great key to success. It's called task completion. Whenever you start and complete a task, your self esteem goes up. You like and respect yourself more. You feel like a winner because completing a task is like crossing a finish line. It gives you a feeling of winning. So if you start and complete any task, your self esteem goes up. If you start and complete your most important task, your self esteem goes, it goes up very high and you feel sometimes exhilarated. Your brain releases endorphins which are called nature's happy drug. They make you happy and not only that, they motivate you to want to do more things. And to do them better and to do them sooner as well. So those are some of the ways to raise your self esteem and especially underline everything that you do by repeating the magic words. I like myself. I like myself. I like myself. Know who you are. Set clear goals, work on the most important things that you can do to achieve those goals and discipline yourself to complete your tasks and your self esteem will go up and up and up. If you like this video, please leave a comment below. And don't forget to subscribe to get new videos like this in the future. It.
