Self-esteem & My Strengths Worksheet

Self-esteem
The way you feel about yourself, or how you rate yourself is called self-esteem.
Self-esteem is to do with accepting yourself, feeling confident, and liking yourself.
Everyone’s feeling about themselves can change from day-to-day and are affected by
many different situations and events.
Nobody feels good about themselves all the time.
People sometimes respond differently of the same event- how we feel about
ourselves is partly affected by the expectations we have for ourselves.

Key Message:
 Self-esteem is not fixed and it can and does change. One way of boosting self-esteem
is strengthening and capitalizing in our strengths. Below are some personal strengths
that are divided into five broad “self - contexts” that are often used by young people.
They may or may not be appropriate for you.
1. Tick any of the strengths that may be appropriate for you.
2. Then, add some 2 to 3 of your own strengths in each area.
 Social
I am a caring friend.
I get along with others.
I can easily make a conversation go longer
I can use anything start a conversation
Interests/Sports
I work well in a team.
I like to be creative.
I like to extend my limits
I am a team player/leader

Family
I help around the house.
I try to get along with my family.
I always open about our family
I try to makenmy parent’s life easier and
more convenient
School
I try to do my best.
I contribute in class.
I am a competitive person
I do advanced learning to contribute to
recitation

Personal Characteristics:
I listen to other people’s opinion.
I try to think about other’s feelings.
I try to validate their feelings and consider them all the time
I always ask people for different perspectives or view of something

Reflection:
1.Do you think listing some personal strengths made you feel differently about yourself? If so,
why might this be?
-Yes because normally, I don’t now, any of this, but when I starts typing of what are my
strengths, it made me feel that I am more important than I thought, and made me aware that I
have good strengths and made me feel the need to improve them.

2.Of the five self-esteem contexts—social, interests/sports, family, school and personal
characteristics, which one is the most important for building self-esteem and why?
-For me it is family. Family is the most important of them all because loving family is always the
best. God first then family second.

3.Write down two to three things that you believe are most important for building self-esteem.
-Being aware of what you can and cannot do or control
-Using them as an asset, as defects
-and get your based from God not from any other thing or person

Message Bank:
It’s ok to be who you are! To be indifferent—to not be good at everything. It makes you
UNIQUE.
Self-esteem is not fixed and it can and does change.
I do have strengths. It’ TRUE!

Your own text – your NOTE to yourself!

1. It is fine when you don’t feel important to anything sometimes
2. We all suffer from lower self steem sometimes
3. Remember how powerful your God is