Ten ways to boost your self-esteem

• Is this job/person giving me positive feedback?
  
• Do I enjoy this job/person?
  
• Does this job/person acknowledge and reflect my creativity and my strengths?
  
• Am I sticking with this job/person simply out of habit?
  
• Could I do better?

7. Review your situation
Include time for reflection in your daily schedule – praying if you’re religions, meditating or writing a diary of your thoughts and feelings. We often don’t give ourselves enough time to process all the things that are going on in our lives.

If you decide on a diary, instead of writing a list of what went wrong today, write down these headings first, and fill them in.

• Goals: set yourself a daily outcome and build up to larger goals.
  
• Achievements: what did you achieve today?
  
• Gifts: what happened, out of the blue, to cheer you?
  
• Insights: you may not get one every day – but when you suddenly spot a key to some piece of your behaviour, write it down.

• Clear up the clutter (a good Feng Shui practice that will make you feel more energetic) and throw out stuff you don’t use
  
• Give yourself a sound track – add some inspiring music
  
• Introduce new bold colours that you love