Self Esteem

Just recently, I was driving down the road in my car with the top down and thoughts filled my head... It is so easy to blame the "other guy " for what goes wrong in our lives. How many times have you said "He made me, She made me, or If it wasn't for... " As I felt the wind blow through my hair, I thought about how we all have gotten to a point where we just don't take responsibility. It's easier to blame the other guy because it stops us from growing and learning, it puts our behavior on someone else. As I continued to drive an even bigger realization hit me. This has nothing to do with the "other guy ," but about ourselves and how we feel about ourselves as a person. Self esteem is what this is all about. It is what fuels us to go, and be, and do.…

When the chips are down and we are ready to give up we look to someone else normally to pull it back together for us. Not many people go to that hidden strength they have inside themselves to pull it together. It's there, but seldom used because it is so easy to not want to face the fact that each one of us is empowered enough to handle anything that comes our way! We have become scared of failure and our ability to meet the task head on. By allowing someone else to do it for us, we no longer have to take responsibility for it. After all, then it is "his or her fault ."

When was the last time you decided that "come hell or high water " you could do something? When did you give it everything you had, plus some? Self esteem is about being all we can be. There is this spot inside of all of us that wants us to go one step further then we would normally. We all like the feeling of knowing we gave it all and in the end won. I am not necessarily talking about the end result being what we wanted either. I am talking about knowing that everything we had was going to make it make it happen. Just knowing that, builds our self esteem and allows us to go that one step further the next time...

copyright........Barb

Something to think about.…