Giving Yourself A Self Esteem Assessment

by Inspiration4Living.com

Are you thinking of giving yourself a self esteem assessment?

Do you have a lot of self esteem? Is your self esteem at an all-time low? Do you have any idea what your self esteem level is at? If you are like most people, you don’t really have a thorough understanding about your self-esteem.

Sure, you may be a confident person on the outside, but how deep is that well within you? Does it stretch deep into your personality? Into your psyche? Is it strong? Or is there the potential for you to lose your self esteem if something goes wrong? If you don’t know, then you might want to give yourself a self esteem assessment.

All you need to do for this self esteem assessment is to answer questions honestly. This assessment of your self esteem is only going to be for yourself and for no one else. Lying about the answers will only hurt you in the end. You don’t have to share this with anyone if you don’t want to.

Ask yourself these following questions. Each one will help you move toward your self esteem assessment and that can help you build your self esteem up to a level that will mean more success in your life.

1. Do you focus on the failures in your life or the successes? Often, we tend to focus on the things that go wrong in life. If you tend to do this, then your self esteem is not as high as it could be .. as it should be. If, on the other hand, you focus on the successes in your life, then your self esteem will tend toward the higher level.

2. When faced with challenges, do you take them on eagerly or do you try to find reasons (excuses) why you can’t do them? When you have high self esteem, challenges don’t seem like challenges to you. But when you are suffering from low self esteem, you will tend to shy away from challenges, afraid of failing and reaffirming your low self esteem.

3. Do you point out other people’s flaws? This is one of the most common things that people with low self esteem do. They point out and make fun of other people’s shortcomings. This helps them to feel better about themselves, but it’s a Catch-22 in a way. It makes them feel better about themselves, but it doesn’t help boost their self esteem, so they will end up making fun of people again in the future.

4. Do you get defensive when criticized? Accepting criticism is a sign of being strong-willed. If you can accept criticism from others, then you tend to have higher self esteem than someone who can’t accept the criticism of others.

When you ask yourself these self esteem assessment questions and answer them honestly, then you will have a better gauge of the level of your self esteem.

If this self esteem assessment reveals that your self esteem is low, that doesn’t mean it has to remain that way. You can raise your self esteem up. It takes some time and some work, but the end result will be that you have a belief in yourself to be able to accomplish anything that you set your mind to in life.

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