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More Motivation and Less Anxiety by Building a Healthy Ego

ego eckhart tolle empower othersThere are many spiritual teachers and personal growth gurus telling us to let go of our egos. However I’d like to offer an alternative: Build it up!

I don’t disagree that letting go of the ego is a fantastic state to aspire to, but I wanted to know what would happen if I nurtured my ego in a healthy way that best served me and others around me.

In this article (and podcast episode), I visit the ego and share how to build and evolve it so that it releases your fears, insecurities and anxieties.

Who knows? Maybe you just need to inflate your ego a bit to create the peace and ease you want in your life.
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Filed Under: anxiety, Behavior, Compassion, Desires, Ego, Motivation, Negative Emotions, Passion, Podcast Episode, Self-Esteem, Self-Worth, Spirituality Tagged With: drive, eckhart tolle, ego, fear, insecurity, passion

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

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