Do you think Self Esteem Plays a Role in Success?

I wanted to share some insights from one of the audio lessons from a tremendous new mentor and mastermind for me named Bill Bartmann "The Billionaire Business Coach". He is the only self made Billionaire with a B who has exclusively devoted his life to teaching others. With that kind of a resume, I thought it would be worthwhile to listen to what he has to say on my iLearningGlobal audio library. He also has some great HD video's as well. I absolutely love his teaching style as well as his content is amazing and extremely insightful! Bill is only one of the many "rich" resources within iLearningGlobal (ILG). For today's post and wanted to share with you some of my insights on his lesson on self esteem and how that effects how we process information and how that relates to some other great lessons from by dear friend Bela and her tremendous book "A Bella Life" and of course the "The Go-Giver " by Bob Burg and John David Mann.

First, let's look at the "4 Laws of Self Esteem": as related by Bill Bartmann

1. There is a principle of survival
2. The subconscious mind is stronger than the conscious mind.
3. Our subconscious will not let us do something it thinks we are incapable of doing.
4. Our subconscious will either help us or hinder us based on the information it retrieves.

The next law I'd like to share is from "The Go-Giver". The 4th Law of Stratospheric Success is the Law of Authenticity: "The most valuable gift you have to offer is yourself."

Finally I'd like to share a truly inspiring quote from Bela's book, "A Bella Life."

"Think about a dark room. The minute any little bit of light is brought in, the room is no longer dark - the light overpowers the darkness. I want you to choose light, not darkness. I want the beautiful pure light within all of us to spread through the universe creating an abundance of love, happiness, kindness, and peace for all - creating a bright bella life for everyone!"

I'm blessed to have each of these tremendous people in my life as a mentor and feel like I "know" them all either through facebook, phone discussions or the power of ILG. It struck me that the common thread between all of these is our emotional personal intention and how that relates to what it directs our subconscious mind to think and therefore do. Have you ever heard a song on the radio and instantly you're transported back in time to an event that you had linked this song with or "assigned" a memory to it? Its very powerful! It could have been 20 years ago and yet in that moment, you are instantly engulfed in that moment again...you remember what you were wearing, the scent of his or her perfume/cologne, the emotions that you felt...good or bad. I know I have several songs like that for me.

Then it hit me after listening to Bill's lesson, I remember these things so vividly because I first chose to assign a meaning to it for the good or bad..(light or dark). I then allowed this raw emotion of what I believe to be my true authentic self to add power to the meaning of this event. Ultimately as a result of this "emotional programming", my subconscious mind takes over and tells me how to interpret future events based on its immediate retrieval of this assigned emotional meaning.

Even if an event occurs that is one that you'd normally interpret as negative, if your positive intention is emotionally authentic , even though you don't necessarily "feel" it, eventually your subconscious will accept it as "true" for the ultimate good because that's how you've reprogrammed it to be. Ever hear the quote "Whether you think you can or you think you can't you're right?" I know this to be true more than ever! Whew, that's deep! Being the Pisces that I am, I'm very in touch with my emotions. I've been pondering how do I use this insight for my ultimate good and growth and positive impact on others. Here's what I've concluded with this end goal in mind: If I want to continually grow and advance, I must purposefully choose to assign a positive emotional meaning to each event so that I can be sure that the programming being sent to my subconscious mind will result in the desired answer/action I'm looking for. ..or as in the words of Obama, "Yes we can!!!" There is definitely something to that :)

I encourage us all to pay more attention to the messages that we allow ourselves to accept as true and what meaning we choose to assign to them and how that in turn determines what we believe is our ultimate power to accomplish what our mind conceives. We can't accomplish "big" things if we don't allow ourselves to think big! Now that's powerful!

"No one can make you feel inferior without your permission." Eleanor Roosevelt

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Comment by Wayne Woodworth on June 25, 2009 at 3:18am: Self-esteem is essential for success. If you don't love and respect yourself then other people won't either. And you cannot be successful without other people.

Comment by Tisha Willis on June 25, 2009 at 2:53am: Having self-esteem is very important to success - not just success with money but success with people. If you don't have self-esteem you will always have a fear of rejection and consequently this will show in your character and how you behave towards others and if you don't love yourself, other people will not love you and will not be drawn towards you, but if you have self-esteem you will have more confidence and you will be like a magnet to others.

Comment by Henk Mutsaers on June 25, 2009 at 12:47am: Self-esteem, Yes you need it badly and the ability to raze it by others.

Specially in the case of making everyday health decisions because 80th percent of what they call food in the supermarket isn’t feeding our body anymore ore worse, it’s got a poison in it! Most people need to educate themselves all over again against believes of those who don’t know yet. Following your own believes, you need loads of self-esteem.

Henk Mutsaers www.gezondheidradio.tk

Comment by Annie on June 25, 2009 at 12:39am: Yes, self esteem will play the most important role to success, and a solid foundation of whatever business we operate.

Comment by Michael Saccardo on June 25, 2009 at 12:22am: A persons self esteem is key to success. Nobody will ever get beyond how they see themself. If they see themself as failure then thats exactly what they will get no matter how hard they try. If they cant see themself as making $27,000 a month NO MATTER what they do they will nOT get beyond what they can accept as monthly income. Zig Ziglar one of most successful sales people who ever lived will tell you self esteem is foundation to reaching your goals. You got crack in foundation you cant build house till crack is fixed. Steven Scott who wrote book "Mentored by Millionaire" says after several failures the key to his success was he was mentored by millionaire who taught him how to think like millionaire and he replaced his self image with wisdom he found in Proverbs and applied it to his life and those 2 things along with the first utmost important his relationship with God has made him the multi millionaire he is ...he also said King Solomon who was wisest richest man who ever lived had EVERYTHING anyone would ever want and more and Solomon said life is vain if you dont know God ...what has man gained if he has EVERYTHING in world but loses his soul.......

Comment by Catherine Mascrès on June 24, 2009 at 11:39pm: It is only with self esteem which brings self confidence that you can show yourself positively to others, and attract to your business. However too much self esteem is also something to avoid. Inflated egos would be a deterrent as much as suppresed ones. There is a balance called harmony. Thank you for the post. Amicalement. Catherine

Comment by Melissa Atkinson on June 24, 2009 at 11:38pm: Without a doubt, self esteem does play a vital role in your successes, whether, business or personal. For many years, I have struggled with low self esteem and confidenance, and recently I started reading books by Ekhart Tolle and Louise Hay, and they have had such a great impact on my mindset. This has now led me to start up my own self development home based business, and with this I have learned that I am not going to allow myself to be a victim anymore. My website for my business is: www.powerofhumanity.com
With this self development business, I have grown so much, and the transformation in myself is so satisfying. For the first time, I can now say that my self esteem, and self belief is truly growing, and on a daily basis.

Comment by Brenda on June 24, 2009 at 11:35pm: I believe self esteem plays a role in everything we do. In work and play. It affects our whole life. So yes it definately plays a part in our sucess, or failure.

Comment by adnan ghalib on June 24, 2009 at 11:34pm: very useful information. Thank you.

Comment by Bill A. Medley on June 24, 2009 at 11:26pm: I really believe so. You have to go out there with a great positive for yourself or you'll die on the street. I've been taught by the experts your ratio calls to sales may be 7 rejections and 1 sale. If so one has to have great esteem about themselves to make it all that way.