| No one has the right to tell you to build self-esteem | | | | you start trying to copy the life of someone else and |
| and if you already know that your self-esteem is | | | | not follow the one you set for yourself. |
| pretty good. You already know the same old blurb | | | | The comparing yourself habit is formed from |
| everyone else tells you about increasing your | | | | childhood. You may have siblings so had to compete |
| self-esteem. You should be using more positive | | | | for attention at home. You definitively had to at |
| self-talk, be excited about learning new things, loving | | | | school with fellow pupils. Someone would be head |
| having new relationships and be prepared to help | | | | boy, someone would be the dunce and everyone got |
| others. | | | | compared on a scale in between. |
| There is one problem with hearing these type of | | | | Sales are booming on celebrity gossip magazines. |
| ideas though. They are all generic, they leave you | | | | Comparing who is wearing what. Who is dating who, |
| with more questions than answers that ultimately | | | | who has put on weight. It all leads to you comparing |
| leads you to the most destructive habit of all, | | | | yourself to someone or something that has been |
| comparing yourself to someone else. If you have not | | | | determined as the benchmark for success. If you get |
| set you focus onto what you want you are wasting | | | | caught up in this game you will get nowhere fast. |
| all your time and energy on a wild goose chase. If | | | | You must created your own game that you control |
| you have no destination in mind, where are you | | | | that gives you the prize that you desire. |
| trying to get to. Sooner or later all that happens is | | | | |
