Soul Esteem

It’s unfair. Some are blessed with high self-esteem and for the rest of us,  a daily struggle. Is it a conspiracy driven by the self-help industry? There is certainly money to be made from human misery, but here’s an even bigger one: Low self-esteem keeps us on a path that is not our own. Worse still, the awareness that we are not living up to our potential can keep us from ever reaching it.

The relationship we have with ourselves is not so different from our relationships with other people. How can we respect someone who continually disappoints us? Inversely, why work hard for someone we don’t respect?

The distraction we place on ourselves keeps us from fully acknowledging this cycle, let alone fix it. Our efforts to keep us from our inner-selves only adds to the sea of distraction, sweeping up more victims: One more person not living out their dream creates two more. Sooner or later we become the guardians of our own prison. For this reason, the struggle with your self-esteem is larger than you alone. We stand to lose everything if you can’t get it together.

Breaking out means discipline: Cracking the proverbial wall bit by bit. We have little time do this That’s why it’s important that when do it, we really do it.

There is no sense denying ourselves the inner call to take action any longer. It’s there, and it is as real as your cubicle. So stop pretending that that bit of distraction doesn’t matter.  It’s never a bit, and it does matter. It is the difference between continued bondage and freedom.

The problem is not low self-esteem, or anxiety, or depression. All of these problems are mere symptoms of a much larger one: Your life sucks. And it sucks because you are not who you are. But it’s still not too late to take action.

If you can’t do it for yourself, do it for the rest of the world. If you can’t do it for the world because you hate the world, do it anyway. The lower you are, the more unfairness you’ve bared, the more we need you to show us that it’s possible.

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