Improve Your Self-Esteem with Journaling

This might be the best article I've posted yet! It was just what I needed to read today.

-- By Elizabeth Evans Fryer, Health & Fitness Writer

On one episode of last season’s The Apprentice, "The Donald" gave team members, and viewers alike, a lesson in life: You can’t successfully sell what you don’t believe in. Similarly, you can’t improve on what you don’t respect

...If you have trouble remembering your good qualities or complimenting yourself throughout the day on jobs well done, perhaps an exercise in journaling will help turn your self-doubt into self-determination. Keeping a journal focused on your positive traits and accomplishments will bolster your esteem and satisfaction in yourself. After awhile, you'll be high on self-respect and realize that you are worth the effort of self-improvement.

Keep your journal on your bedside stand. Before you turn off the lights for the night, write a minimum of five self compliments in the journal. Here are some ideas to get you started:

Eat a good breakfast? Way to go! Write it down.

Did you let the guy in a silver Neon out in front of you during rush hour? How courteous! Write it down.