Psychology Simplified: Improving Self-Esteem By Sir Gerry Neale

Simplifying Psychology to improve Self Esteem is not difficult if one follows some simple steps. That anyone of us can think ourselves out of the game, unable to accomplish something and therefore all in all to want low esteem, is not an earth shattering discovery. We all know people who have a lower self-esteem than us and ones with higher. Yet we can change.

However many of us making any assessment of self-esteem, whether our own or someone else, can make a significant mis-judgment. If they assume that our calculation of our self-esteem level should be the sum total of all our abilities and disabilities and somehow averaged, they would be mistaken.

In fact, each of us is a walking bundle of self-esteem assessments, often arrived at very arbitrarily.

Let me explain. Ask a golfer what his or her handicap is and most will tell you quite authoritively what it is. The Game has a well tried formula.

Not many activities have this feature. So suppose we are given a list of activities and asked to assess our effectiveness. What do we do! Actually we call on our sub-conscious to give us the rating on each one!

So imagine this. You are given a list of 10 activities and ask to give yourswelf a rating (1 being really good and 50 needing a lot of improvement. I would like you to do score yourself in your mind as you read and note what happens. Ready?

Ball room dancing - cooking Thai style – Tennis – Drawing - Writing short stories – Singing - Eating sensibly - Using the Internet - Remembering birthdays and anniversaries - Public Speaking.

Do you notice how some you score highly; others you are a bit down on yourself and the remainder you are damning of yourself.

Why? Either because you are good at it or your parents or teachers told you were wasting your time even trying, or because you never done them and feel a bit inadequate.!

But some fascinating scientifically proven facts about us and the psychology behind self-esteem have emerged in recent years. Follow this simple formula and see how immediately you begin to feel better about things:
• Remind yourself of something you are good at now,
• Then recall what character traits you employed to get so good at it.
• Didn’t you wanted to do it,
• Didn’t you find out how.
• Didn’t you apply yourself and learnt some then alien skill.

So we can rightly deduce that if we apply ourselves in the same way for another activity, using our proven character traits, then hey presto we can excel in any new skill we want to. .Each skill will have its oddities to start with but, so what! we have mastered oddities before!

Simplifying the personal psychology involved immediately improves our sense of self-esteem and shows how we have a stack of eminently transferable character traits.

Select a new simple challenge and try it. You will be amazed.