Feeling Good

"When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too." Jake Steinfeld

Many of us are brought up in families where we're taught that saying good things about ourselves is being conceited. The message that we as little kids get from that is that we're really not that good after all. There's something wrong about feeling good about ourselves. You can see that this is just a destructive belief pattern passed down in the family from parents to kids. It's not intended to be malicious, but it's destructive in what it teaches us about ourselves.

Some of us spend our whole lives trying to be good enough to be worth feeling good about ourselves, and never quite making it. The fact is, there's a big difference between feeling good about yourself and being conceited. Here's how to tell the difference.

Conceit compares you to others. Self esteem does not. Healthy self esteem is necessary for success in life. As our quote says, if we like ourselves, others will, too. And it's hard to be successful without the partnership of others.

So how are you doing with liking yourself? Do you feel genuinely good about yourself? Would you want to be friends with you? You're actually a pretty nice person, you know.

Give yourself a hug!