Self Confidence Esteem

Welcome to my blog titled 'self confidence esteem'

The aim of this blog is to offer people support, advice and encouragement, as they face up to another day, where quite often they have to combat all the negative influences in this negative orientated world of ours.

My daily dose of 'words of wisdom' is designed to give people a boost of self help, self confidence and esteem, which will hopefully help them on their daily journey as they pit themselves against life's obstacles.

This idea was born from my personal experience of growing up in this often unsympathetic world and hostile environment, without any guidance as to how to take a positive optimistic outlook on life. Sadly lacking in terms of the social and psychological skills and attitudes required to succeed in life. Not only financially but spiritually and how to enjoy optimum health and to get the best out of life.

As most people, I thought that our much trumpeted education system would serve me well in adult life, but far from it! Just think for a moment about the effectiveness of our narrow minded education system and it's beneficial properties in terms of succeeding in the adult world.

Like many people who fail to get the right balance in life, I suffered within my job (just over broke!) resulting in stress, panic attacks and depression. Ultimately I had to give up my job and much to my dismay found that the support for people like myself suffering from mental health issues, was woefully inadequate. Basically you are cast upon the scrap heap of life. It's fine for the government to be so critical about the less fortunate in our society, but in reality how much are they doing in order to give such people hope for a better life. The likes of Blair and Brown and no doubt Cameron if he ever gets to the promised land of number 10, would rather wade in to Iraq and Afghanistan trying to sort out their problems and thus increasing their profile on the world stage!

For me hope came in the shape of self help and positive thinking material. I am indebted to my uncle Evan from Wallace in Victoria, Australia, who during a visit to the outback (no the government did not pack me on a boat to Botany Bay, as this practice concluded in the 1960's when vulnerable children were sent to Aus!)gave me a copy of the phenomenal book 'Psycho Cybernetics' by Maxwell Maltz. Having read this book my outlook on life began to change, as I thought about our mad world in a different light.

In later years I would return to this little gem of a book during my hour of need as I suffered panic attacks and depression. Just like a good healthy nourishing meal will give your body a boost several times a day, I discovered that we as human beings also need a daily diet of positive thinking, self help material. And no, surprise, surprise, you do net get this from reading your daily newspaper or watching the news on tv (which incidentally is 95% bad depressing news!)

It was uncanny how, by picking up a self help, positive thinking book each day and reading for maybe just half an hour to an hour, not only how uplifting it was, but how timely the information seemed and was just what you required at that moment in time, to help you deal with life's challenges.

This led me to think about helping other people by sharing some of the gems I had read that day or week with other like minded people. Why not call it 'pearls of wisdom'? and if it made other people feel just as well as I did, my mission would be accomplished.

Therefore I hope that you will enjoy my weekly update of 'words of wisdom'.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Please send your comments to:
aledevans58@fsmail.net

Bye for now and best of luck today,

Aled