How to Build Self Esteem

What a lot of us don't always realize is that our attitudes are learned behavior. A positive sense of self is achieved over time through practice. Focusing on what is wright instead of what is wrong, are usually traits that are constructed with in a a family or culture. A negative mindset, or script, may claim that there is not any sense in trying to improve because this is the lot I was given. Believing in your own  abilities to make positive changes is a key factor in determining you future direction.

Rewriting a more positive script means choosing to look at ourself in a brighter light. Whenever you catch yourself saying, "I am a worrier, or I come from a line of unhappiness", you should think again. Encourage yourself with words of affirmation, knowing you are creating a foundation to springboard yourself into an upward spiral of self acceptance.

Not everything is going to go our way and not everyone is going to like us. We only have a certain amount of control over these circumstances, and the best we can do is start believing in the best for the future. As long as we have a personal script that affirms our self worth then we will become more resilient to the pressures that a cynical world can throw at us.


The antidote to consumerism is a self worth founded in the eternal worth you were born with. A purpose for good that was planned out for you long before your culture had the opportunity to influence it. Re-establish that script that was created for you and run it everyday. I have included some Joel Osteen videos at the bottom of this page that can set you in the right direction.





The comedy sketch from the CNN take off called CNNN shows up some of the issues with the self esteem industry. How the advertising industry tries to tap into and hijack ourself esteem. By destroying and manipulating you self esteem yo are more likely to believe you need their products.




Ever since Sigmund Freud made the study and interpretation of the self popular, people have been desiring one for themselves. This is in a large part due Freud's nephew, Edward Barnays, a wartime propagandist, who invented a new phase for his peacetime activity, public relations. Barnays worked first hand with presidents Coolidge, Wilson, Hoover, Eisenhower and with the worlds largest corporations to convinced his clients of the need to control the out of control and dangerous subconscious.  He worked out how to influence people to buy their dreams desires by exploiting the subconscious.

By far the most outstanding feature of the Century  of the Self was the creation of Self Esteem. As a means to control the masses, which psychology had began to regard as dangerous. The idea is convince you that you need to consume to maintain your self esteem.

How to Build Self Esteem Videos

The Century of the Self exposes the construction of the Self Esteem Industry