Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

part of your personality or performance boosts your self-esteem,
and causes you to like and respect yourself even more. The more
you like yourself, the better will be your self-image and subsequent
performance, and the faster you will move toward becoming more
like your self-ideal.
The best news of all is that there is an 
inverse relationship
between your level of self-esteem and your fears of failure and 
rejection. The more you like yourself, the less you fear failure.
The more you like yourself, the less concerned you are with the
opinions of others, and the less you fear criticism. The more you
like yourself, the more you make your decisions based on your
own goals and standards, and the less you care what others think
or say.
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