611 Ways to Boost Your Self Esteem: Accept Your Love Handles and Everything About Yourself

by Bryan E. Robinson, Jamey McCullers

Life is full of ups and downs and, at one time or another, all of us feel downtrodden or blue. Everyone wants to live a happy life. But why are so many of us miserable so much of the time, constantly searching for inner peace with little success? It's because we're looking for it in all the wrong places.

Some of us spend our lives looking in the wrong places for our self-esteem. Self-esteem is a state of mind. When we have negative attitudes toward ourselves, we limit our lives without even realizing it. But by changing our thinking we can boost our self-esteem.

These 611 self-esteem builders will give you new direction and guide you through each day with easy-to-apply reminders that show you how to empower yourself and restore the meaning and quality that bring balance to your life.

Include yourself when you're thinking of some of your favorite people.
Surround yourself with people who affirm and respect you.
Love yourself with no strings attached.
Look for the upside of your life when all you can see is the downside.
Throw a party instead of a fit!

160 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1994

About the author

Author Bio

Bryan E. Robinson, Ph.D. is a novelist, licensed psychotherapist, Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and a Fellow of the American Institute of Stress. He has authored over thirty-five nonfiction books including Chained to the Desk: A Guidebook for Workaholics, Their Partners and Children, and the Clinicians Who Treat Them (3rd Ed., New York University Press, 2013), The Smart Guide to Managing Stress (Smart Guide Publications, 2012), The Art of Confident Living (HCI Books, 2009), Don’t Let Your Mind Stunt Your Growth (New Harbinger Press, 2000), and Heal Your Self-Esteem (HCI Books, 1991) just to name a few. His debut novel is a Southern murder mystery titled Limestone Gumption (published by Gale/Five Star Publishers January 2014).

His books have been translated into thirteen languages, and he has written for over one-hundred professional journals and for such popular magazines as Psychology Today, First for Women, American Health, Your Health, Natural Health, Total Health, Lady’s Circle, Complete Woman, and Psychotherapy Networker. His monthly column “Mindmatters” appeared in Your Health Magazine for two years. His work has been featured in Town and Country, Marie Claire, McCall’s, Mademoiselle, Out Magazine, Web MD, Shape, New Age Journal, Atlantic Monthly, Good Housekeeping, Men’s Health, Women’s Health, Ladies’ Home Journal, Forbes, Fast Company, Fortune, Men’s Journal, Best Life, and in newspapers such as The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Charlotte Observer, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, The Atlanta Constitution, USA Today, New York Post, and The Miami Herald.

He has won two awards for writing: the First Citizen’s Scholars Medal from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte for excellence in scholarship, creativity, and/or research. The prestigious Extended Research Award from the American Counseling Association for his outstanding body of pioneer research on workaholism and the family. He is listed as a leading authority on “workaholism” in Wikipedia where his clinical findings are discussed.

He has lectured across the United States and throughout the world. His work has been featured on every major television network. He has appeared on ABC’s 20/20, Good Morning America, and ABC’s World News Tonight; NBC Nightly News, NBC Universal, the CBS Early Show, CNBC’s The Big Idea, and CNN’s Minding Your Money, plus hundreds of local and national television and radio shows. He hosted the PBS documentary, Overdoing It: When Work Rules Your Life.

He is currently writing a memoir and maintains a private clinical practice in Asheville and Charlotte, NC. He resides in the Blue Ridge Mountains with his partner, four dogs, and occasional bears at night. Visit his website:www.bryanrobinsonnovels.com or email him: bryanrobinson@bryanrobinsononline.com.

Reviews

[HeavyReader]

Some of the advice in this book is hokey (#33 Remind yourself that denial is not a river in Egypt).

Some of it is too spiritual for me (#56 Develop your spiritual side and #438 Let God pass through you like current through a wire).

Some of it is kind of silly (#498 Live you life the same way a Chihuahua goes about eating a dead elephant: one bite at a time, being very present with that bite).

Some of it is repetitive (several about asking for help and asking for what you need).

But some of the advice is really right on and helpful.

#82 Don't become intimately involved iwth crisis junkies.

#211 Accept responsibility for you your actions regardless of the outcomes.

#243 Never count on another person for your self-esteem.

#397 Believe that you are enough. (The book doesn't say what steps on should take in order to achieve this one. But if one can manage it, I think it is good advice).

#529 Let go of the burden of always being right.

Since I got this book for pennies at The League, I can afford to give it a makeover with colored markers, crossing out the advice I think is silly and jazzing up the advice that I think is good.

[Youssef Mohsen]

كتاب جميل و محفز لكن هناك الكثير من النقاط معاده و البعض بسيط جدا و لكن في الاغلب فهو رائع

[Fatima_5]

كتاب جميل جدًا، بإعتقادي من الكتب المُحفزة التي نحتاج لإعادة قراءتها كل فترة، قراءته لا تتجاوز النصف ساعة :)