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Under-achievement is one of the numerous offsprings of poor self-esteem. The poverty of healthy self-esteem is responsible for the sub-standard lifestyles lived by many today.
The absense of a good self-esteem makes one common, ordinary, inadequate and ultimately, failure-prone. Also, when self-esteem is in short supply, it keeps one perpetually in a following position thereby killing one's zeal to aspire. Self-esteem is vital, essential and critically needed for success.
WHAT IS SELF-ESTEEM?
Self-esteem is simply having a sense of self-significance. If you possess it, you are success-bound. But be warned, you could lose it! Self Esteem is always under attack. I will briefly share with you some instances to authenticate this fact.
A young boy I know every end of term returned home with a Report Card wherein his teacher would always remark "A DULL STUDENT". The parents and his siblings didn't help matters as they adopted the label.
He grew up with the residual effects of this label and the last time I heard about him, he was out of school. They murdered the boy's self-esteem.
One of my acquaintances back in my university days became "engaged" and "disengaged" four times to four different men. She concluded she was not good enough to be a wife. Her self-esteem had been violated.
Once, I was chosen to read the news back in my primary school days. My teacher then told me I was a poor speaker. This made me avoid every public speaking opportunity. He buried my confidence and my self-esteem evaporated... For a season!
However, some way along the line, I recovered my self-esteem through listening to a charge.
Who told you that you are not good enough? Don't compare yourself with other people! You are not inferior to anybody neither are you superior to any one else, you are just peculiar.
Don't relinquish your self-esteem to past failures, to racial discriminators.
"You deserve the right to be yourself. Self steam, full speed ahead!