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Sometimes
you may feel like you can't do anything right. Especially when
everyone around you - your family, friends, teachers - tell you
you're stupid, ugly, clumsy, or just not perfect.
How you feel about yourself is
called self-esteem.
Self-esteem can either be positive
or negative. Positive self-esteem is when you feel good about
yourself, and you feel confident that there's things you can do and
do well.
If you feel good about yourself,
you have positive, or high self-esteem. But if you feel bad
about yourself, you have negative, or low self-esteem. High
self-esteem is important, but it can sometimes be difficult to keep
up.
Most of us would like to be perfect
but we can't! Humans aren't perfect! But making mistakes
doesn't make you a failure. In fact, if you learn form your
mistakes, you can get pretty skilled at about anything.
Remember - no one is successful all the time.
There are times when you'll place a
lot of importance on what your friends say. They may want you
to do something you don't, or they may say things about you that
aren't too pleasant. Of course, all of this makes us feel bad,
but you don't have to accept what they say or do. Sure,
everyone wants to be liked, but if you have a positive self-esteem,
then your friends attitudes won't necessarily affect yours - and
that's important.
Truly successful people are those
with higher positive self-esteem. They know that life isn't
always fair, and many times they make mistakes. But they learn
from their mistakes and don't see themselves as failing.
And while they have a great deal of
respect for those around them, they know that other people's
opinions aren't always right. Successful people know that to
meet their goals, they have to feel good about themselves.
Being Successful means doing
your best, learning from your mistakes and feeling good about
yourself - that will make you a winner!
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