Problems with Self Esteem

In my first post I thought I might dispell a few myths about self esteem and challenge a few misconceptions.

First a definition: Self Esteem is conditioned self acceptance. This becomes an issue because because it requires you to achieve or do something good in order to accept yourself.

What is self esteem so bad?
Unfortunately because self esteem requires you to do something good in order to accept your self apart from being hard work after a while the flipside of the self esteem equation also means that if you fail at something you tend to berate yourself for not succeeding and often consider yourself a failure.

Don't you mean low self esteem is bad?
Unfortunately high self esteem leads to low self esteem it simply can't be maintained for long with out self esteems old friend the ego coming out. But for now let's just stick with self esteem.

So how does this work?
Well if your needing to have something good happen in order to accept your self when nothing does it leads to being un happy for no real reason. You may also find yourself using terms life feeling good about yourself this really is a self centered notion. In the coming posts through my everyday observations and the writings of others the issues of self esteem will be exposed.