Failure is one of the scariest words we ever hear. In my opinion, many people would rather be different or overworked than be seen as a failure. With the amount of stress we place on successes, it isn’t surprising really. What we have to remember is, all successful people have at some stage in their life failed in some way, haven’t they?
Achieving success is something many of us look for each and every day of our lives. Success, success and success, nothing else will do; or will it? Is success the ‘be-all and end-all’ of everything? I don’t think it is, simply because a few failures in our lives won’t do us any harm. Slowly but surely, the word failure is now being accepted again as part of the process; it is becoming recognised as an important learning point,
Whilst the definition of self esteem varies a great deal from source to source, the general consensus is that it is a self estimation of your own worth; how you see yourself and fit into the bigger picture. Self esteem is a very powerful thing and can be the root cause of your success or failure;
This is the second of two posts looking at self confidence and self esteem; you can read the first one, “self confidence and self esteem (part 1)”. In that post I stated that it’s possible to be self confident but have a low self esteem. Also, if you can have low self esteem, you can have high self esteem which isn’t as desirable as you may think.
An improved level of thinking is something I’m sure that many people would love to achieve, no matter what their level is at the moment. The number of times people can be seen in situations where they are being asked to think, yes a simple straight-forward task and they suddenly freeze up.