Do you have a good SELF ESTEEM?

I have a high self esteem. Self esteem is the respect and regard we give to ourselves. If we are not respecting ourselves how can we expect others to respect or give regard to us. Self esteem sure is directly connected with our happiness. Let me share with you my experience at college. I am a graduation student studying commerce. Whenever we write exams I never copy or ask anything to the person sitting before/ behind me. I always have in mind that when I am good at it why should I even ask them the answers. Copying is out of question. So, whenever we get the results the percentage and the class obtained is solely by my hard work. This makes me much happier than any of the rank holders who ask and even sometimes copy to get good marks. In our college we even have falicitation programme for the students who score full marks in any subjects. But the happiness is not found on their faces while receiving the prizes whereas I am much happier eventhough I have scored around 80 or 90 out of 100. You see, my self-esteem restricts me to get hints from others and in turn it gives me so much of happiness and confidence to cross the next hurdle in academics.

i do practice a high self esteem. in my job i have to be that way, because i'm facing different kinds of people everyday, mingle with them and of course most of the time they were asking my opinion or idea about what is going to happen on a certain event and i have to give them the concrete and best for them. Also, i manage people, how are they going to follow my instructions or respect me if they see me unconfident in everything i say? well, that's how it is with me. having a high self esteem is good, but of course there are certain limitations in everything. You have to know your limitations in everything, don't hurt someone else feelings, and don't go to the point that you are insulting your people already.Be fair in everything you do and in decision making so, you'll feel happy and of course you create good relationship with your people as well. i think that's more important.

i haev NO self-esteem whatsoever. i am one of those ones you talk about...one who always puts themself down. i really hate myself. That is not to get you to as why or whatever else. It is just the truth...just how it is.

Oh yea! Self esteem does affect a person's happiness! I think my self esteem is not bad but not that great either. It can definitely improve. It's weird cuz I really feel good about a lot of things about myself and yet I feel so bad about other things. It's a mix.

Self-esteem I believe do affect a person's happiness because it is usually tied up with how a person sees himself/herself. Like me of example, I am overweight and yet I don't feel body conscious or less attractive and less capable because I have never ever tied up with the way I see myself and my capacity to succeed or have a successful relationship with my weight. A lot of teenagers nowadays are unhappy with themselves and keeps on seeking approval because they think that they are fat that in effect they have very low self-esteem. Some would even ask, could somebody ever love me the way I am? As for my self, I am never short of self-esteem. A lot of times, some people gets uncomfortable with me because they think that I am overshooting. LOL! Just a few days ago my friend congratulated me for being the no.3 top seller and she added that considering that I am the newest. I replied to her that by next month I will be no.1 and then later I thought that she might have found me too much since being no.1 means I will be achieving higher sales than her. LOL!

I myself sometimes felt such a low self-esteem because as what i've been through from my past. I have made such a failure from the past, first thing I remember still is when I failed my own family due to some family personal matter and it affects my studies and that cause me quitting my studies back then, from there I have felt so much less confidence within myself and i'm being weak just about anything I tried doing for myself not realizing I was only pushing myself too hard down to life's downfalls. But now, I'm just thankful that I gain back my confidence within myself and i'm starting to live my life to it's fullest and that what made me the person I am right now, I can boldly say that I'm now a fighter person. :-)

I probably shouldnt after the life I've had, but I think all the adversity and put-downs I've faced throughout my life have had the opposite effect on me, and given me very good self-esteem.I have a lot of confidence and sometimes maybe too much,lol.

I have very poor self esteem about myself and realize this but it doesn't change the fact about how I feel about myself and do agree that it makes a person less happier then the person that has high self esteem . I am always trying to boost the self esteem of others around me and feel so terrible when I see a child putting him or herself down . My niece is very beautiful and extremely talented in many ways but does not see this in herself as she only see's herself as overweight . She is a little big but nothing major and she could lose a couple of pounds but if she lost more then that she would't look healthy as she is almost six feet and this as well bothers her . It hurts me each time I talk to her to realize how bad she feels about herself because she can sing like no one else as she has such a beautiful voice and she is only fifteen . She can draw anything and has been able to do this since she was really small . Academically she is really smart and never has to struggle yet never sees anything good in herself . If we could only teach self esteem to children in school as this is just as important in learning as anything else , then we would have a lot more happier people in the world .

Well I don't actually hear people saying "they're too good for me" etc too often. It's usually the other way around....but anyhow, I still think you can have a low self esteem and be outgoing and "outwardly" positive. Actions are more indicative of esteem I think, but yeah, it's not fun listening to sonmeone being negative about themselves all the time.

some ppl tends to be humble while most tend to have a low esteem, for myself i consider myself above average.

I have a healthy self esteem nowadays. THere were times in my life where it was really down, but I'm glad I was always able to bring it up - sooner or later :) I'm not as worried as its effect on people's happiness as much as I am with its effect on people's sense of worth, and ability to cope with everyday's life. People with low self esteem aren't necessarily feeling miserable but tend to have more difficulty dealing with life itself, specially the pitfalls. They can actually sometimes act kind of a yo=you with big highs and big lows.

it can affect our happiness because if we contrabute all unsucess to our faults,then we will feel depressed.actually,we can see something on another angle,the failure has many elements,we should not blame ourselves always.

yea i think i do have a self esteem

I just put it this way, light. When I start to feel down, and I start to think that they are much better than me, what I do is to convince myself that they are still human and being human, they still have something that makes them weak at times. They might be better than me in some things, but I sure have some things that are way better than them. When I start doing this, I begin to feel much better about myself. And I sometimes think of what my brother told me. He said to think about this when I start to feel the insecurities bearing down on me. It's a little gross but it was sure funny. He said that we get intimidated by people who are of great standing. We think that they know everything. They stand proud and sure of themselves. But the thing is, they still do what we do, too. They still poop, don't they. I'm so sorry if this will offend some.

well i have a high esteem which means that i hold myself in very high regard and i do not underrate me. I feel for people who can't do anything else but to sit down and blame their self whenever they are in trouble. But for me i am always happy even in the face of adversity and my friend are like i like your attitude. Its very positive. What people don;t know is that a positive attitude brings out a positive result

When I was younger I am very insecure but that does not help, when I got older, I never mind anyone at all, if they are more beautiful than me, I just think that if they can do it, so can I? It's useless to be no one all the time.

I belive that I have a high aelf esteem in usually,so I am always confident of any situation that I do my business at the being time.At the same time,I think most of people even if the hollible person have the high esteem by himself.They always regard all thing themselves do is right.They must give himselves a good excuse to do everything.so they must have the high self esteem.

i think i have preatty high self esteem yes i think so

i have bad self esteem.. since i was child, i dont have much confident to face to face with a girl.. anyone can help me to cope this problem?