IMPROVING AND BOOSTING

SELF ESTEEM

Presenter Name
John Joshua A. Borac
JL Quejaro
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PRESENTATION TITLE IMPROVING and BOOSTING SELF ESTEEM

The way in which a person values and perceives themselves is know as

self-esteem. It is one of the major factors that help in the development of
the personality of a person.
The term Self-Esteem is used to describe a person’s overall sense of
self-worth or personal value. In other words, how much you appreciate
and like yourself.
Self esteem is often seen as a personality trait, which means that it tends
to be stable and enduring.
Self esteem can involve a variety of beliefs about yourself, such as the
appraisal of your own appearance, beliefs, emotions and behaviors.
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IMPORTANCE OF SELF ESTEEM

Self Esteem can play a significant role in your motivation and success
throughout your life. Low self esteem may hold you back from
succeeding at school or work because you don’t believe yourself to be
capable of success.
By contrast, having a healthy self-esteem can help you achieve because
you navigate life with a positive, assertive attitude and believe you can
accomplish your goals

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SELF ESTEEM THEORIES
The need for self esteem plays an important role in psychologist Abraham
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, which depicts self esteem as one of the basic
human motivation. Malow suggested that people need both esteem from other
people as well as inner self-respect.

FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE SELF ESTEEM

There are different factors that can influence self esteem. Genetic factors that
help shape overall personal can play a role, but it is often our experiences that
form the basis for overall self esteem. Those who consistently receive overly
critical or negative assessment from caregivers, family members, friends,
inner thinking, any potential illness, and our job can affect your self esteem.

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 SIGNS OF HEALTHY SELF ESTEEM

You probably have a good sense of Who you are if you exhibit the following
sign;
 CONFIDENCE
 ABILITY TO SAY NO
 POSITIVE OUTLOOK
 ABILITY TO SEE OVERALL STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES AND ACCCEPT
THEM
 NEGATIVE EXPERIENCE DON’T IMPACT OVERALL PERSPECTIVE
 ABILITY TO EXPRESS NEEDS
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 NEGATIVE OUTLOOK
 LACK OF CONFIDENCE
 INABILITY TO EXPRESS YUR NEEDS
 FOCUS YOUR WEAKNESS
 EXCESSIVE FEELINGS OF SHAME, DEPRESSION, OR ANXIETY
 BELIEF THAT OTHERS ARE BETTER AND YOU
 TROUBLE ACCEPTING POSITIVE FEEDBACK
 INTENSE FEAR OF FAILURE
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“Self Esteem” is
composed of the thoughts,
feelings, and beliefs e hold
HOW TO about ourselves. Since our
thoughts, feelings, and
IMPROVE YOUR belief change all the time,
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constantly evolving

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 HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR SELF ESTEEM
Method 1. INCREASING YOUR SELF ESTEEM

1. Be deliberate with your thoughts and beliefs: Try to focus on positive,

encouragements, and constructive thoughts. Try these strategies:
• Focus on the positive. Think about the good parts of your life. Remind
yourself of things that have gone well recently. Considers the skill you’ve
used to cope with challenging situation.
2. Set goals and expectations: Write of lists of things you want to accomplish
and set out to achieve these goals. For example, you might decide to volunteer
more, take up a new hobby, or spend time with friends.
• Make sure your goals and expectations are realistic. Striving for the
impossible will only deflate, not enhance, self esteem.
3. Take care of yourself: Some of us spend to much time worrying
about and caring for others that we neglect our own physical and
mental well being.
• Avoid processed, sugary, and caffeinated foods and/or drinks. These
can affect your mood and should be avoided if you’re concerned
about mood swings or negative emotions.
4. Look back on your life and your accomplishment: Chances are that you are
not giving yourself enough credit for everything that you’ve done throughout
your life. Impress yourself, not others.
• Scan through old photos, scrap books, yearbooks, trip mementos or even
your college accomplishment.
5. Do things you enjoy: Set aside to do something that makes you happy
every day, whether that’s means cooking, reading, exercising, gardening, or
spending hour just talking with your spouse.
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• Experiment with new activities: you might learn about talents or skills you

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didn’t know you possessed.

6. Help someone: Research has shown that people who volunteer tend to feel
happier and have higher self esteem.

7. Adjust your self image as needed: you change all the time, and you need to
update your perception of yourself to match your current self.

8. Let go of the idea of perfection: Nobody is perfect. You’re never going to have
the perfect life, the perfect body, the perfect family, the perfect job and so on.
• Focus on effort rather than the desire for perfection.
Accept that you are a human being, and that human being are fundamentally
imperfect and make mistake.

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Method 2. DEALING WITH LOW SELF ESTEEM

1. Find the triggers of your low self esteem: Think about any troubling
conditions or situations that might be related to why you feel badly
about yourself. Typical triggers may include work meetings, school
presentations, interpersonal problems at work or home, and significant
life changes.
2. Be aware of thoughts patterns that chip away at your self esteem. For a lot
of us, negative thoughts and beliefs can become so normal that we just assume
them to be accurate reflections of reality.
• Negative self-talk You talk to yourself in negative terms, including put-
downs, name-calling, and self-deprecating humor.
3. Take a step back from your thoughts to reevaluate them. Repeat this negative
thoughts to the point that they become absurb or almost as if someone else is saying
the words.

4. Accept all of your thoughts even the negative ones!.

5.Pair negative thoughts with positive thoughts. Transform the negative things
you think about yourself into positive.

6. Stop comparing: Comparing ourselves with others almost always result in

lower self esteem.
• What you should focus on is yourself. Compete against yourself.
Challenge yourself to be better.

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- Problems with self esteem
HOW TO can make you feel like a
BOOST SELF failure or like you are
unworthy of attention.
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Method 1. DEVELOPING A POSITIVE LIFESTYLE

1.Take care of yourself: Raising your self esteem first and foremost
means setting aside from and attention for yourself. Showing that
you value yourself is a first step in learning to see how others value
you.
• Get plenty of exercise
2. Eat healthy: to feel good, you need to be well-nourished. This means
eating a balanced diet. Some nutrients, such as vitamin D and vitamin B12,
can even give your mood an additional boost.
3. Take time to do things you enjoy. Low self esteem can cause a great deal
of stress.
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DEVELOPING A POSITIVE LIFESTYLE

4. Accomplish something: Doing things to improve the

appearance and effort of your home.
5.Dress well: Dress in whatever clothing you have that
makes you feel confident.
6.Give yourself a reward: Giving yourself a reward shows
that you are care about everything you do.
7.Spend time with good people: Surround yourself with
people who are positive, supportive, and kind.
8. Practice Kindness : Show that you care about others
also boosts your expectations that others should care
about you.
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ACKNOWLEDING YOUR GOOD QUALITIES

Method 2. ACKNOWLEDGING YOUR GOOD QUALITIES

1. Make Positive list: surround yourself with good thoughts, push

negatively out of your mind.
2. Try a mutually complimentary exercise. This kind of simple
exercise will boost your self esteem and the others person’s.
3. Keep a “Positive Scrapbook.” Make a collection of things that
celebrate you and your good qualities.
4. Make a Self esteem Calendar: Schedule a small thing you can
do to make yourself feel better.

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Method 3. CREATING A POSITIVE ATTITUDE
1.Turn negative thoughts around: When you feel negative thoughts
popping up, stop and turn them into something more positive
2. Accept some failure: No one can succeed at everything all the time. Failure is
part of our life.
3. Lisen to yourself: Listening to yourself also means trusting and following your
thoughts and instinct.
4.Don’t compare yourself to others: Recognize that everyone isn’t the best at
everything, and that each person has individual strengths.
5. Find Support. You don’t have to handle it alone. Good friends and family will be
happy to make you feel better, spend time with you, and share your good qualities.
6. Identify the source of the problem: Sometimes, specific causes can be hard to
identify, but common triggers include.
• Negative perceptions of the body image
• Bullying 17
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HOW TO Overcoming Low self
esteem can be
OVERCOME accomplished if a person
LOW SELF willing to work at it.
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PART 1. IMPROVING YOUR SELF ESTEEM

1. Recognize that many people suffer from how self esteem.

We are not alone.
2. Identify the thoughts, feelings, physical, symptoms, and
behaviors associated with low self esteem. These types of
thoughts and behavior are like “symptoms” of low self
esteem.
3. Listen to your inner monologue:
4. Pinpoint the way you feel about yourself. Feelings, like
thoughts.
5. Look for physical signs that relate to low self esteem.

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 6. Asses your behavior to see if your self esteem is
influencing your life.
7. Identify your negative thoughts: If you come across
some of them, you can target them for eliminations.
8. Don’t be a nagger, putter-down, or a name-caller.
9. Avoid being a generalist:
10. Fight the urge to be a comparer:
11. Shun the voice that turns you into a catastrophizer.
12. Remember that you are not a mind reader.
13. Commit to eliminating negative thoughts
14. Different between opinion and fact.
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Part 2. USING A JOURNAL TO IMPROVE SELF ESTEEM

1. Start a self esteem journal.

2. Improvement goals.
• Manage stress more efficiently.
• Work on organizing my paperwork.
• Improve my parenting skills.
• Remember to do something you really enjoy once a day and not
feel guilty about it.

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Part 3. CHANGING YOUR RELATIONSHIPS

1. Surround yourself with positive people: As your improving your

self esteem, if it’s possible, minimize contact with people you
notice are saying negative remarks to you.
2. Be more assertive: Be more positive self esteem
3. Set personal boundaries: Some behaviors from other people
can have a direct impact on your self esteem if you hear it long
enough.

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Part 4. IMPROVING LIFESTYLE
1. Make a time for your self, even you’re a parent.
2. Get your body moving: Taking time to go to Gym, feel good, fight illness,
and to be able to keep up with the demands of your busy life.
3. Stay well groomed: Giving yourself manicure and taking care of your body
in general boosts your self esteem.
Part 5. FINDING APPROPRAITE THERAPHY
4. Go to therapy to help your self esteem: Effective therapy has been shown to have a
large effect at raising self esteem.
5. Try cognitive behavioral therapy. These thoughts are the thoughts that happens
almost like a reflex when confronted with life situations.
6. Find psychodynamic therapy:

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Part 6. IDENTIFYING LOW SELF ESTEEM

1. Understand low self esteem: High self esteem means that we

love and accept ourselves for the way we are, and generally
feel satisfied most of the time.
2. Evaluate your self esteem; You may suffer from low self esteem
if you tend to the following.
• Always critical to your self
• Think of yourself in negative ways.
• Always scold, criticize, or blame yourself
4. Know the potential effects of low self esteem.
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CHAPTER 2:
IMPROVING AND BOOSTING
SELF ESTEEM

• How to Improve your Self

Esteem
• How to Boost Self Esteem
• How to Overcome Low Self
Esteem

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PRESENTATION TITLE 2/27/2023

THANK YOU
Presenter name

John Joshua A. Borac

JL Quejaro

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