t’s important to see ourselves through a realistic lens. Recognizing our own imperfection is healthy and, in many ways beneficial. However, taking it so far that you doubt or forget your own core value can cause you to become insecure, critical, argumentative, fearful, dismissive, withdrawn, and self-sabotaging.
Feeling worthless makes it difficult to trust others and inspire others to trust you. To be even more direct, when you don’t like yourself and you don’t believe you are a good person to know, you can become suspicious of anyone who does like you and treat you as if you are important. You don’t trust the intentions of people who are kind to you and that comes through in your interaction with them.
Those negative beliefs inhibit clear, honest, concise, and assertive communication and they distract us from genuinely listening to others. As a result, people with low self-esteem report low satisfaction in relationships – at home and at the office.
On the other hand, those who report having healthy self-esteem believe they do deserve love, they value their own thoughts, feelings, opinions, interests, and goals. They report possessing self-confidence, feelings of competence, and a feeling of belonging. Effective communication and authenticity are more natural. It is not surprising that they also report having high satisfaction in all kinds of relationships. #leadership #growth #selfesteem #leadclearly