Take Action Today for More Positive Self-esteem

1. Dress and look your best at all times regardless of the pressure from your friends and peers. Personal grooming and lifestyle appearance provide an instantaneous projection on the surface of how you feel inside about yourself.

2. Volunteer your own name first in every telephone call and whenever you meet someone new. By paying value to your own name in communication, you are developing the habit of payinh value to yourself as an individual.

3. Take inventory of your good reasons for selfesteem today. Write down what your "BAG" is. Blessings-who and what you are thankful for. Accomplishments-what you have done that you're proud of so far. Goals-what your dreams and ambitions are.

4. Respond with a simple, courteous 'thank you' when anyone pays you a compliment for any reason.

5. Sit up front in the most prominent rows when you attent meetings, lectures and conferences. Yours purpose for going is to listen, learn and possibly exchange questions and answers with the key speakers.

6. Walk more erectly and authoritatively in public with a relaxed but more rapid pace. It has been proven that individuals who walk erectly and briskly usually are confident about themselves and where they are going.

7. Set your own internal standards rather than comparing yourself to others. Keep upgrading your own standards in lifestyle, behavior, professional accomplishment, relationships, etc.

8. Use encouraging, affirmative language when you talk to yourself and to others about yourself. Focus on uplifting and building adjectives and adverbs. Everything you say about yourself is subconsciously being recorded by others and, more importantly by your own self-image.

9. Keep a self-development plan ongoing at all times. Sketch it out on paper-the knowledge you'll require, the behavior modification you'll achieve, the changes in your life that will result. Seek out the real winners in life as friends and role models. Misery loves company, but so does success!

10. SMILE! In every language,in every culture-it is the light in your window that tells people there's caring, sharing individual inside and it's the universal code for "I'm O.K-You're O.K., too!"

Dipetik dari buku The Psychology of Winning by Denis E. Waitley.