Quick Tips To Boost Your Self-Esteem

• Be a part of life instead of apart from it.
• Add life to your days instead of days to your life.
• Instead of saying "yes" when you mean "no," say "no" when you mean "no."
• Satisfy the urge to change someone else by changing yourself.
• Learn to ask for what you want.
• When you have a choice of being alone or in bad company, choose being alone.
• Don't put your life on hold waiting for someone else to catch up.
• Think three positive thoughts about yourself before falling asleep at night and before getting out of bed each morning.
• Let someone who is in a hurry go ahead of you in the grocery store line.
• See your imperfections as part of your human perfection.
• Work in harmony with the world by finding it within yourself first.
• Don't blame your inner upset on outside causes.
• Avoid people who point out your faults all the time.
• Hit the middle of the road between self-centeredness and self-neglect.
• Always be who you are instead of who others want you to be.
• Cushion your life so that you have space to stretch and breathe and live moment to moment.
• Define your importance by your character, not by your accomplishments.
• Live by the adage, "Nobody can walk all over you if you're not lying down."
• Look yourself eye-to-eye in the mirror and tell yourself that you are loving and lovable.
• Accept your love handles, gray hair and everything else about yourself exactly as you are.
• When someone gives you a compliment, take time to hear it before returning the favor
• Subscribe to uplifting magazines that give you tips for feeling good about yourself.
• Ride the waves on a raft.
• Invent new solutions to old problems after wearing out old solutions that you know don't work.
• Stop going back to the same people for the same rejections.
• Tell the truth to yourself and to others.
• Establish healthy rituals, such as quiet reflections, while you have a hot drink in the mornings.
• Avoid little white lies.

From "611 Ways to Boost Your Self-Esteem" by Bryan Robinson & Jamey McCullers