Tested Ways That Will Boost Your Self-Respect

 As the world becomes more complicated, competitive, and challenging, self-respect becomes a very important aspect. Every day on social media I see several posts from people all over the world experiencing a lack of inner strength to get them through their day, due to low self-respect. In this post, I attempt to share some tested ways to boost Self-Respect. Developing a positive self-concept, or healthy self-respect plays a major role in success and happiness in a person’s life. A strong positive self-concept allows people to open themselves to new opportunities and challenges, both personally and professionally.

 Actually, self-respect has nothing to do with your achievements or with other people. Self-Respect simply results from two things concerning your inner relationship with yourself: 

• Opinion of oneself and, 

• Treatment of oneself

 The way we talk about ourselves is very important in everything we do. Self-Respect is an effect of following important core practices that needs a constant commitment to self-analysis. To me, these practices are “Masts of Self-Respect”: 

Ø  Living determinedly: Giving attention to info and opinion about your needs and goals, facing truths that might be uncomfortable or frightening, denying drifting through life in a self-induced mental fog.

Ø  Self-acceptance: Being keen to practice what we actually think, feel, or do, even if we don't always like it, facing our faults and learning from them.

Ø  Self-accountability: Forming a sense of control over our lives by recognizing that we are accountable for our choices and actions at every level, the achievement of our goals, our happiness, and our values.

Ø  Self-decisiveness: The will to express our thoughts, values, and feelings correctly, to stand up for ourselves, and to express and act from our innate opinions.

Ø  Living resolutely: Set objectives and work to accomplish them and develop self-discipline, rather than living casually, unplanned, and being at the mercy of chance and external forces.

Ø  Integrity: The integration of our behavior with our ideals, convictions, standards, and beliefs and acting in conformity with what we trust is right. Most of us are taught from an early age to pay far more consideration to signals coming from other people than from within. We are encouraged to overlook our own needs and wants and to focus on living up to other people's expectations.

Self-Respect requires us to listen to and respect our own feelings, visions, instinct, and outlook. For some people, learning to do this might need the help of an experienced counselor. Developing the Masts of Self-Respect is a lifelong and worthy challenge for all of us.

Let us not forget that we are the only ones holding ourselves back. When taking loving action for ourselves, substitutes for our negligent and judgmental behavior, we will feel high on Self-Respect. The act of simply believing in ourselves can be enough to give us the required self-confidence to achieve the impossible, attain greatness, and pick ourselves up when we fall. Learning to love ourselves can be a continuing process as we sometimes fall into the trap of thinking we're stupid, hopeless, no good, etc.

So, let us start practicing today the tested ways, boost our Self-Respect, and be our own cheerleaders.