Self-Respect and Positive Self-Talk: The Key to Unlocking Your Potential
Why live with self-respect? Find out how it will empower your skills and self-care.
I have sometimes wondered why self-respect has come to mean so much to me as a novice striver who wants to better himself. Why self-respect and not more money, or status, or direct contributions to others as by acts of philanthropy?
Self-respect suggests building up your own value, for your own satisfaction or for others. If it is for others, developing many different skills or abilities makes sense for their utilitarian value.
Self-respect and Self-Esteem
I suspect that one reason I am drawn to self-respect is that it boosts self-esteem. If you are the kind of person who hungers for more recognition from others, validation is what you want.
Validation would make you feel good and that you are on the right path for future success and fulfillment.
Self-respect allows us to value ourselves and recognize our worth, which can boost our confidence and do wonders for our self-esteem.
If you were denied these rewards from your early years, then it makes sense that now you would want to live with self-respect to fill the hole of low self-regard.
