How to Boost Self-Worth: 6 Tips to Make You Feel Better About Yourself

We live in a world where there are so many ambitious people that self-confidence goes without saying if you wish to succeed in life. However, being confident about our abilities isn’t something we were all born with.

Some people need an extra boost to realize their true self-worth. If you too question whether you are up the challenge of succeeding life, here are 6 tips to make you instantly feel better about yourself.

Baby steps

Whether it’s solving the crosswords in the Sunday papers or graduating from college, success in life is really a series of small steps. Since the number of life-changing events is limited, true self-worth is proven through small everyday efforts. These are easy to accomplish and boost your morale over time.

Instead of focusing on big goals in life, you should take baby steps that are easy to make on a daily basis. If you wish to get married and have a bunch of kids, don’t focus too much on your prospective spouse but rather focus on earning more or buying a large-enough house.

Pursue your passions

There is hardly a person on the planet that doesn’t get curious about at least one topic. For some, it’s an ideology or a religion, while others get emotionally around a boy or a girl. Whatever it is that you enjoy doing, pursue this passion, and see how much you can find out about a particular topic or excel at a hobby.

In fact, rediscovering your passion is one of the remedies for fighting chronic depression. Additionally, you won’t waste your emotions on toxic people and situations, because you will have already used up your emotions on the positive things in life that trigger you.

Pursuing your passions has to do with accepting your personality and appearances as they are. Once you achieve this (mind you, this is a real challenge), you will realize your true self-worth and learn to love yourself; all the flaws included.

Change one thing about your appearance

In might seem banal, but boosting your self-esteem has a physical aspect to it. We are loved and appreciated for who we are and what we stand for but sometimes it doesn’t hurt to dress nicely. In fact, you will instantly feel better about yourself if you changed just one thing about your appearance.

This can be something as simple as undergoing orthodontics treatments to get a beautiful smile. Other people might buy a new piece of clothing or get a tattoo; it really comes down to your personal preferences.

The positive aspects of your personality

Another useful tactic to fall in love with yourself is to focus on the positive aspects of your personality. This method is often used for making friends because it helps you sift through different people and their respective personalities. We all have flaws but they should not outnumber the positive aspects of any personality.

However, people who need a boost in self-worth often fail to see the positive sides of their personality. That’s why it’s important for their friends and family to step in and help them realize their true worth. Your mother saying how happy she was the day you were born or a friend telling you how much you mean to them is enough to lift anyone’s spirits.

Be grateful for the little things in life

We’ve already mentioned how you should take baby steps in life but you should really start appreciating all the small things in life. Moreover, you need to start practicing gratitude for the smallest of gestures, events, and inanimate objects.

After you move on from the prior superficial take on life, you will discover invigorating energy hidden on the spiritual level. You need to rediscover steam from a cup of coffee, sunsets at sea, sand grains, etc., i.e. everything that fascinated you as a child.

Remember how life made sense when you were a wee boy/girl?

Lending a helping hand

People fighting with depression and anxiety are desperate for the help of their friends, family, and society in general. However, you will start feeling better about yourself not if you receive help but if you actively start helping others.

Again, these acts of kindness don’t have to be major, as holding the door for a colleague and giving someone a compliment are more than enough in the beginning. Once you notice the small acts of gratitude of others, you will get “hooked” on altruism.

Soon enough, you will be visiting your grandparents every weekend, going on road trips with your family, and starting conversations with random people in the street. That’s the extent to which you will recover your self-esteem.

Militaries across the globe have a similar “leave no man behind” motto. This principle should really apply to all of mankind, as no person should feel unworthy. However, feeling better about yourself is foremost a process, so there are no fast-fixes. Sure, rediscovering your passions in life and visiting the dentist are likely to put a smile on your face but the real struggle is just beginning.