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Building Self-Esteem and Self-Worth, While Avoiding the Ego Trap

Self-worth is how you perceive yourself through other people’s eyes. Self-esteem is how confident and worthy you feel about yourself.

Your self-esteem can be crushed if you are around people that do not recognize your worth. And after years of low self-worth, you may feel like a loser who doesn’t deserve good things in life.

On top of that, if you work hard at developing your worth and esteem, your ego can come in and try to spoil things even more.

There are ways to build and nurture all three of these so that you can tackle life a lot easier when the challenges present themselves.

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Filed Under: Behavior, Ego, Human Potential, Negative Emotions, Podcast Episode, Relationships Tagged With: Confidence, ego, self-esteem, self-worth

Vulnerability Can Be a Place of Strength

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Many people believe that being vulnerable is a place of weakness or being fragile. Now, I will say that when you open your heart to someone, that is a vulnerable place. Because you are trusting that person with the most precious part of you. You let that person into your personal space. They are inside your castle walls, as I like to call them, and they could honor you and worship you, or they could crush you and steal all of your gold.

So being vulnerable involves trust. When you voluntarily choose to be vulnerable around someone, that is the ultimate in trust. It’s like when a cat lays on his back to show you his belly. He trusts you completely, and is confident that you won’t betray that trust. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Fears, Human Potential, Relationships, Self-Esteem, Self-Worth, Vulnerability Tagged With: Confidence, strength, vulnerability

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