Friday, February 20, 2009

Self Esteem

I had the privilege of sitting in on a talk on self esteem. The most important concept I took away with me is: Believe in Yourself. We are all capable and able people. We all have the ability to be successful in life concerning our goals and objectives. If we believe in ourselves we will be successful at our work, our marriage relationships, our relationships with our family and friends, our hobbies, our spiritual life, and anything that we attempt to do in life. If we do not believe in ourselves we will not succeed at anything in life.

There was three points the speaker tried to instill in our minds. We a able, lovable, and worth it. We are able to accomplish anything that decide to do in life. We are very lovable people. We are worthy. We are important and we deserve to be here. We deserve to be loved and to be respected. We are valuable to society. We can make this world of ours a better place to live for our fellow human beings.

Another thing I learned is we are able and capable to think for ourselves and develop our own opinions on things. Some people tend to allow others to think for them and take on the opinions of others instead of developing their own opinions on things. We are all quite capable of being independent and thinking for ourselves and forming our own opinions on things. Once we decide on our opinions on certain issues our opinion is important enough to shout it out at the world and make the world sit up and notice. If we are courageous enough and speak out with self confidence and just shout out our opinion at the world we can see changes made concerning the subject matter of your opinions. We can change the world's attitude towards things and convince them to take notice and consider what we are saying. That's how we see change in the world concerning the particular issue being proposed to society. If the mental health community gets together and start shouting out at the world this might help stamp out that awful stigma against consumers. We can change societies attitude towards mental illness.

If we have good self esteem and believe in ourselves we can leave our mark on this world and leave behind a legacy after we pass on from this world. I heard a quote from the movie Alexander the Great. He said "when it's all over all that matters is what we have done." If we believe in ourselves enough we can become great at whatever we attempt to do. We can become the best at whatever we do in life. We can have our part in the direction the world takes on certain issues. We can influence the world and create changes in the course of history. We are able and capable to accomplish great things in life and we are capable of convincing the world that our opinion counts and should be considered. This is the backbone of all revolutions that history has enforced upon us. People that believe in themselves and are not afraid to speak out and fight for what they believe in. We consumers need to rise up and fight to have that stigma removed from society. We need to rise up and fight for our rights as Canadian Citizens to be imputed unto us. We are just as important as the next person and we truly deserve to be treated with love, respect, given employment opportunities, be able to find a place to live, not being treated as outcasts of society. We deserve to be accepted by society and be able to live in the community and become a part of that community.

We have all the right to rise up and speak out and change societies attitude towards mental health consumers. Once again we are important to society and we deserve to be accepted by society. We are all capable of becoming productive members of society and contribute great things to society.

Believe in yourself and you will see a big change in your life. You will be able to live life to the fullest and have a ball doing it. Develop good self esteem and you will love life and love being alive, and you will accomplish great things in life. Try believing in yourself and you will definitely see some results. Have a great and wonderful life.

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