Name & Course: Jaylord Dave N.
Cuarteros BSME - 1B
APPLICATION AND ASSESSMENT
Do a research and list ten (10) things to boost your self-esteem or improve your
self-concept. Cite your sources. Analyze which of those tips are more likely to
backfire and make someone conceited or narcissistic and revise them to make the
statements both helpful to the individual as well as society in general.
10 ways to boost self-esteem
1. Say stop to your inner critic.
Stopping inner critic is not narcissistic at all as long as you’re stopping destructive
thoughts to govern your mind. A good place to start with raising your self-esteem is
by learning how to handle and to replace the voice of your own inner critic.
2. Use healthier motivation habits.
Using healthier motivation habits is not narcissistic either as long as we are not
looking down and breaking others. To motivate oneself is not dragging someone
down as well.
3. Take a 2 minute self-appreciation break.
Self-appreciation break is a must have for all people because it’s not always that we
can find appreciation from others. If we wait for others to appreciate us, then that
may lower our self-esteem. These short breaks do not only build self-esteem in the
long run but can also turn a negative mood around and reload you with a lot of
positive energy again and that is not narcissistic.
4. Write down 3 things in the evening that you can appreciate about yourself.
Appreciation is far different from bragging. To appreciate oneself is not narcissistic
at all. What’s narcissistic is when you start to compare your traits to others and start
bragging about it.
5. Do the right thing.
When you do what you deep down think is the right thing to do then you raise and
strengthen your self-esteem. Try to stop worrying or feeling sorry for yourself and
focus on the opportunities and gratitude for what you actually have and this is not
narcissistic either.
6. Replace the perfectionism.
Few thought habits can be so destructive in daily life as perfectionism. It can
paralyze you from taking action because you become so afraid of not living up to
some standard. And so you procrastinate and you do not get the results you want.
This will make your self-esteem sink. When you aim for perfection then that usually
winds up in a project or a task never being finished. So simply go for good enough
instead. Don’t use it as an excuse to slack off. But simply realize that there is
something called good enough and when you are there then you are finished.
7. Handle mistakes and failures in a more positive way.
Accepting failures and learning from it is not narcissistic at all. You become
narcissistic when you can’t accept and learn from your failures. If you go outside of
your comfort zone, if you try to accomplish anything that is truly meaningful then
you will stumble and fall along the way. And that is OK. It is normal.
8. Be kinder towards other people.
When you are kinder towards others you tend to treat and think of yourself in a
kinder way too. And the way you treat other people is how they tend to treat you in
the long run. So focus on being kind in your daily life.
9. Try something new.
When you try something new, when you challenge yourself in a small or bigger way
and go outside of your comfort zone then your opinion of yourself goes up. You may
not have done whatever you did in a spectacular or great way but you at least tried
instead of sitting on your hands and doing nothing.
10. Stop falling into the comparison trap.
When you compare your life, yourself and what you have to other people’s lives and
what they have then you have destructive habit on your hands. Because you can
never win. There is always someone who has more or is better than you at
something in the world. There are always people ahead of you. So replace that habit
with something better. Look at how far you have come so far instead. Compare
yourself to yourself. Focus on you. On your results. And on how you can and how
you have improved your results.
