Assertiveness Begins
With Self-Esteem

Self-esteem requires being true to yourself, to your own genuine feelings and desires; otherwise you're a fake.

You can't have high self-esteem and truly respect yourself unless you are living your life honestly and in the way your deepest needs demand. Not what a parent, a pastor, or a friend or spouse thinks you should do, you can only build self-respect on the foundation of doing what your most honest self thinks you should do and be.

Again, Shakespeare said, approximately, to thine ownself be true, and as the night follows the day, you cannot be false to anyone else. For some that takes work, being true to yourself, and this article and the others in this blog will lead you to that vital goal.

The work starts with talking to yourself in your inner self-talk positively, affirmatively and being very careful not to let the negative slip in. Happily, as you talk to yourself in a more loving and positive way, you will speak that same way to others---making yourself more popular, desired and loved by others. Now isn't that a nice way to live.

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