How To Improve Your Self-Esteem - Mental Health Promotion Series

How many people do you know who will state that their lives are optimal? If you look around, you might think that happiness has ceased to exist. But, if you want to make your life optimal, you have to take things in your own hands. You have to shape your own life.

Here is how you can do that, starting today Many people speak about their problems in life. In fact, this is one of the hottest topics of conversations. It doesn‟t really matter where you meet someone, all it takes is a friendly smile to start pouring out your life‟s woes to them. Everyone does the same. The result is that no one really knows how happy one is. Since everyone is talking about their miseries, it does seem that no one around is leading an optimal life. This is where the problem lies. We think that the term „optimal life‟ should have a definition. We think that we should be able to peg down someone‟s life entirely and say, “Ah, now his is an optimal life!” But it doesn‟t happen that way, does it? You might think that someone with a lot of money or someone with a beautiful wife must have an optimal life. But when you get to know them, you begin to see the great big problems that lie behind this exterior façade of theirs and you realize that their life is not all that hunky-dory as you thought it to be.