Short spoken piece (YouTube video transcript) by Brian Tracy emphasizing that a person’s emotional life and success are determined by self-esteem. Tracy argues that repeating the affirmation “I like myself” raises self-esteem, improves performance and relationships, and should be used daily and before important events to cancel disappointment.
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One of the turning points in my life, one of the eureka moments, was when I found that the whole quality of your life is determined by how you feel about yourself on the inside. It's the emotional quality of your life that determines how happy you are. And psychologists call this your level of self esteem or self value. And the more you like yourself, the higher is your self esteem. And I was astonished at that. And not only that, it's the more you like yourself as a parent, the more you like yourself as a salesperson, the more you like yourself in your job, the more you like yourself in your relationships. Because the more you like yourself, the more you like other people. And what psychologists have also found, which astonished me and it still astonishes me, I just came back from Europe and I was talking to people about this and they have been using my ideas in their languages, Polish, Romanian, Czech, German, for years and years and years and they still say the same words, I like myself. 95% of your emotions are determined by how you talk to yourself. So when you say, I like myself, I like myself, I like myself, your self esteem goes up, your ability to do your job goes up, your relationships improve, and you kind of smile inside. So the advice that I give is when you get up in the morning, first thing you say is, I like myself, I like myself, I like myself. Before every meeting or event of importance you say, I like myself, I like myself, I like myself. And if you have a disappointment of some kind, just say ha. Cancel it out by saying I like myself. And the more you repeat this affirmation, the more it becomes true for you and it affects your whole personality and the whole quality of your life.