Summary Session Two
Self-Esteem, Confidence & Failure?

Self Esteem

Your self-esteem is how you think and feel about yourself. Your self-esteem can affect how much you:

• like and value yourself as a person.
• believe you deserve happiness.
• stand up for yourself when under pressure.
• are willing to try new or difficult things.
• believe you matter and are good enough.
• believe in yourself and the things you can do.
• move on from mistakes without blaming yourself unfairly.

Self – Confidence

Self Confidence is when you accept and trust yourself and have a sense of control in your life. 

• Negative and Positive experiences in life can affect our self-confidence.
• Your Results at School
• Social Media & Advertisements
• Level of support you receive from people you trust
• Your achievements or skills
• Your body image and how you feel about your appearance ?
• Peer Pressure to fit in.
• Pressure to achieve in exams or sports .
• Being bullied or abused.
• Family or Relationship problems
• Discrimination - race, religion or gender
• Mental or Physical disability

How to grow your self Confidence ?

• Positive Mindset
• Take Risks
• Achieve Goals
• Build Self Image
• Emphasize your Strengths
• Help Others

Failure

Failure is a necessary component of success (NOT the opposite). In fact, our brains grow and develop in important ways whenever failures occurs.

FAIL – First Attempt at Learning

When failure happens, we should :

• Focus on Growth mindset
• Let Failure happen and embrace/celebrate from the learnings
• Learn from the mistakes that happened – Fail forward