Self-Care: 6 Practical Ways To Boost Your Self-Esteem

Looking for new ways to boost your self-esteem and feel confident in any situation? Here are six practical tips that can truly help.

What you think of yourself isn’t everything in life, but studies do show good self-esteem can benefit situations like your job success.

Unfortunately, on the other side of the spectrum, low self-esteem can lead to major problems, including depression and anxiety.

This shows the importance of managing your view of yourself.

The challenge comes with knowing exactly how to manage your self-esteem. We’ll discuss some interesting methods such as porcelain veneers or focusing on doing good.

Of course, there’s also the all-important self-talk and number 3 below is something anyone can benefit from, whether you have a self-esteem problem or not.

Which of these have the power to transform your life for the better?

How To Boost Your Self-Esteem

Here are some practical tips and advice that can help you significantly boost your self-esteem and increase your confidence:

1. What Are You Telling Yourself?

Your thought patterns play one of the most important parts in your self-esteem.

Perhaps you feel bad about yourself because others have made negative comments about you but if you enforce those ideas with your own thoughts, it becomes your reality.

For example, believing you’re a bad worker because you once had a very tough, critical boss is unnecessary. You probably improved and his opinion was based on his perspective.

Ask others what your value as a colleague is today and repeat it to yourself daily. Start enforcing the truth in your thought patterns.

This approach isn’t only about what people say but how you interpret situations. Your boss may not greet you one morning.

Some employees will interpret that as him or her being upset with them while others will accept it’s a bad mood. Which group believes the truth and which group do you fall in?

Change requires a conscious effort of tracking your thoughts and analyzing each one to find the truth.

2. Can You Improve Your Physical Appearance?

Your self-esteem shouldn’t be based on whether you’re the most attractive person in the room but for most people, looks do affect how they feel about themselves.

Making small adjustments in your appearance can give your self-care process some momentum and help you with many other aspects of your challenge. Consider these options:

• Consulting a stylist to find clothing that’s suitable for your build, so you can feel more confident.
• Improving bad teeth with braces or porcelain veneers, so you’ll stop trying to hide your mouth behind your hand.
• Investing in skin treatments to remove moles or blemishes you feel self-conscious about. When people’s eyes stop wandering to that spot you know is there, you’ll keep their attention during a conversation and feel more confident.

This shouldn’t make you feel bad about your appearance at the moment.

But imagine this cycle: feeling less awkward about yourself leads to less tension when face to face with others. This will help others feel more comfortable in your presence which can lead to more friendships that also affect your view of yourself.

Can you see the ripple effect?

3. Which Situations Are Getting You Down?

Solving a problem often requires finding the root of the problem, instead of simply treating the symptoms. Once again, in-depth analysis is necessary:

• Write down your worst moments of the day that made you feel bad about yourself.
• Look for trends, such as conflict situations or people’s remarks.
• Consider those situations and start realizing that they’re simply words or moments and don’t reflect on your value as a person.

4. The Magic Of Diet And Exercise

You’ve heard of diet and exercise to improve physical health but don’t underestimate its power over your mental wellbeing.

Here’s what a new routine with healthy food and some gym sessions can do:

• You can lose the weight you criticize yourself about.
• Wear the clothes again that you feel confident in.
• Exercise helps release endorphins which will make you feel happier, enabling you to have more energy to deal with the tough aspects of your self-care process.
• Reaching goals helps boost your self-esteem.

5. What Can You Change?

Feelings of low self-esteem and depression can be connected to feeling out of control. Take back some control of your life by finding things you can improve and change. Just don’t take on too much.

Stay realistic, so once again you can benefit from feeling proud about reaching goals. Here are practical examples to start with:

• Get up 30 minutes earlier and do something you enjoy or go for that walk you committed to.
• Do an online course.
• Watch tutorials and learn a new hobby.

6. The People Aspect

Your network determines a lot about your view of yourself, so be honest and determine if the people in your life are helping or hindering your growth.

Rather cut out toxic or over critical people from your life.

Reaching out to others and bringing change to their lives could help your own predicament. Doing charity work and seeing how you’re impacting others’ lives can transform how you view yourself.

How Do You Feel Now?

Do you see change is possible? How you feel about yourself today doesn’t have to be your reality for years to come.

Start turning away from the possibility of mental health challenges by simply picking one of these tools to start adjusting your perception.

Take a chance on yourself. You’re worth it.