No More Negative Thinking
If you're struggling with your self-esteem, it's important to learn why and the habits you're doing that keep you in this bad cycle. Always remember, you should be your most reliable friend, lifting yourself up instead of pushing yourself down. Here are five signs you might have low self-esteem, so you can break the mentality.
1. Making Constant Comparisons
It doesn't matter who you're talking to; you're always finding ways to compare yourself to others and putting yourself in a worse light. All this means is that you focus on negative aspects of who you are and constantly wish you could be someone else, rather than just embrace your imperfections.
2. Heavy Self-Criticism
When you should be loving yourself, you instead criticize your faults, whereas you would never do that with someone else. While it's good to be critical, being overly harsh against yourself is more damaging than it is good. It completely ruins your self-esteem.
3. Difficulty Accepting Compliments
Whether it's because you don't believe them or disagree, you likely have low self-esteem if you struggle to accept compliments. It simply means you don't see how amazing you actually are, or you're just focused on all the bad. You should be your own number one fan and embrace these kind words openly!
4. Scared Of Failing
When you have low self-esteem, you're too scared to take on new challenges because you're afraid it'll showcase your faults and incapabilities. You focus on the failing aspect over what you'll learn in the process, which can be detrimental to your growth if you're always too scared to try new things.
5. People-Pleasing
Maybe out of fear that people won't like you for who you are, you instead try to win them over by what you do for them. People pleasing is a dangerous thing that can get out of hand quickly; because when you engage in this, it simply means you're not putting yourself first.
