SELF- ESTEEM

Believing in one self is a great teacher of life.it is the first step of succeeding in life, when you know your worth, you know your capability. it will help you to tell yourself that you are capable of doing just about anything in life. Most people underestimate the power they have. If every individual could tell him/herself that ‘’ this thing is nothing, I can do it’’it will go a long way to fix things..it is so vital and the most important in building oneself.

Self-esteem simply is the overall sense of a person’s value or worth.it can also be seen as a measure of how much a person ‘’values, appreciates, or likes his/her personality. 

According to Morris Rosenberg a self-esteem expert, self-esteem is just one’s attitude toward oneself (1965).He described It as a ‘’favorable  or unfavorable attitude toward the self’ ’there are various factors that is believed to influence one’s self-esteem as seen below ;genetics, personality ,life experience .age ,health, thoughts, social circumstances ,the reactions of others ,comparing the self to others.

Genetics is said to be the study of genes, genetic variation and heredity in organisms .this factor could affect self-esteem for it tells where a person hails from, family background. This can affect one from accepting his /her personality as family is the first that helps one carry on in the psychological world. The kind of individual a person comes up as can affect the thinking faculty of a person into accepting who he is .take for example a boy hails from a family with a fair complexion because of the gene traits in him,he gets the complexion.then he grows around dark complexion friends ,it may have an effect on him making him want to be dark just like his friend therefore, hard for him to accept his personality.

Because of the hardship of life, the struggles and challenges, a lot of people are forced to think their lives are meant to be like that instead of accepting their selves the way they are and continue striving hard to make it better for theirselves.it is hard for one to move with someone that is not in his/her age range, you see the person wanting to be like the person above him/her whether positively or negatively. Such person is being looked down on by those above him. Everything in life is step by step. We will all get there, there is no rush in life to succeed .if you want to succeed in life, never you  compare yourself with another for God made us all different in our own uniqueness. If you do not know your worth, know it today; begin to tell yourself that you can do it .walk with your shoulders high and with charisma.

                                                                                                                 BABA,AUGUSTINA JOHN