In your personal and professional life, self-esteem is extremely important. If your self-esteem is high enough, you’ll attract people and make them respect you. 

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If you feel that you still have some work to do on that chapter, here’s a few tricks to increase it.

Let those you admire inspire you, instead of wishing you were like them. Those people are normal people, just like you, and they for sure have a lot of features in common with you. 

They also have weaknesses, defects, and they also go through hard times. Find out their stories and you’ll realize that you’re more than what you believe and that you’re also valuable.
Use criticism in your advantage, even if it’s positive or negative feedback. 

Don’t look at it like it’s a weapon meant to harm you, you should see it as a way of improving yourself. Also, you should be what you want to be, not what others might like. 

To increase your self-esteem, you have to think and act in a manner that gives you strength. The best way to do this is to try things that you’re scared of.

Another great trick is to develop your own voice. You have to understand that you are your best judge and you’re the one who should make all the decisions for yourself. 

Find your inner power and work on it until you’ll be able to stand on your own feet and to take care of yourself. Instead of criticizing yourself, learn to appreciate your qualities, because I assure you that you have a lot of qualities.

Finally, you have to learn how to help yourself. It’s not a bad thing to ask for help, even if it’s a professional or a personal problem. But in time you’ll have to learn how to be your own therapist, your own mentor. 

Working with yourself on your problems will help you just as fine as asking for someone else’s help, but it will make you feel a lot stronger to see that you can take your life in your own hands and solve all of your problems. 

<center>That’s a sure way to increasing your self-esteem.</center>