ENHANCING SELF-AWARENESS & SELF ESTEEM
Self-Awareness is being able to know what you want in life and in doing so, have confidence in yourself. If you are a very reclusive & quiet person or have doubts about yourself you would want to start off by doing a reflection. Seek advise from your close ones (eg family members) Interact with others or compare yourself with a person that you look up to.
Self Esteem is connected with Self Respect, Self Understanding, Self-Motivation, and Self Determination... But it is important to understand that if you have a low self-esteem, you are not confident with yourself. You must be proud of who you are and what you do. Few other important points is being able to pick yourself up when there is a disappointment or a failure and challenge yourself by proving people wrong about you, and make them feel that they made a wrong thinking about you.
Let me talk about what affects my Self-Image and Self-Esteem and How did I deal with it.
When I was Secondary one I joined Hockey and my team-mates didn’t communicate with me so much as they use to communicate in Chinese but I had a problem I was a quiet girl and didn’t like to talk to anyone. Being the only Indian girl in my team I felt left out so I decided not to go for training. But whenever I was having my lunch or break I would see my team-mates having so much fun and joking away.
One day I told myself I have to come out from my quiet zone and learn how to communicate with others so my first step was to attend training. They looked at me and was shocked that I was at training and didn’t communicate with me and the reason was I went missing in action. That didn’t make me stop going for training regularly. They knew I was putting so much effort and time and they made me one of them.
If not for them I would have been the quiet girl but now I love to talk and anyone can approach me for help and advise. It completely changed my life. So my advise to people Is never give up what you love to do, have that determination and a never give up attitude. Eventually you would be able achieve what you want one day.
5 Years from NOW
I want to share what I was 5 years ago. So many have taunted me since I was primary school. Ever since I entered EM3 stream to the Normal Technical stream in secondary school and being an ITE Student. The words, “Slow learner, No hope” just made me down. It affected my esteem deeply. That was the reason I lacked confidence, was quiet, reserved and was pretty much an introvert.
It was only after joining my hockey team and establishing some very close friendships that I received support and set some goals for my self.
My goal was to go to ITE and excel there, and then proceed to poly. I didn’t tell anyone my goal until today. I wanted to achieve it and felt that if I told people about my wanting to go to poly they might laugh and make sarcastic comments or ridicule me about have such dreams. You see, unfortunately, a substantial number of people have misconceptions that going to an ITE are the end of the road. However I was proud that I went to ITE and learned a lot there. Receiving sports awards was an achievement but having good grades was something to keep up with. My grades were mediocre when I was in Nitec. It was when I was in Higher Nitec that I reminded myself about my goal.
I worked very hard consistently to achieve good grades and excel in sports. After graduating from ITE, I was awarded the prestigious ‘Lee Kuan Yew Model Student Award’. Now I have also attained a place in NP. Too many students coming to poly may be just the next step in their course of education. To others it may be the second option to going to a junior college. But to me, it’s a privilege & I’m very proud of myself for coming this far.
In five years time, I want be doing my degree in either NUS or NTU. My steps to achieve my goal is to have the determination, hard work and by motivating myself to do better.
Self-Awareness is being able to know what you want in life and in doing so, have confidence in yourself. If you are a very reclusive & quiet person or have doubts about yourself you would want to start off by doing a reflection. Seek advise from your close ones (eg family members) Interact with others or compare yourself with a person that you look up to.
Self Esteem is connected with Self Respect, Self Understanding, Self-Motivation, and Self Determination... But it is important to understand that if you have a low self-esteem, you are not confident with yourself. You must be proud of who you are and what you do. Few other important points is being able to pick yourself up when there is a disappointment or a failure and challenge yourself by proving people wrong about you, and make them feel that they made a wrong thinking about you.
Let me talk about what affects my Self-Image and Self-Esteem and How did I deal with it.
When I was Secondary one I joined Hockey and my team-mates didn’t communicate with me so much as they use to communicate in Chinese but I had a problem I was a quiet girl and didn’t like to talk to anyone. Being the only Indian girl in my team I felt left out so I decided not to go for training. But whenever I was having my lunch or break I would see my team-mates having so much fun and joking away.
One day I told myself I have to come out from my quiet zone and learn how to communicate with others so my first step was to attend training. They looked at me and was shocked that I was at training and didn’t communicate with me and the reason was I went missing in action. That didn’t make me stop going for training regularly. They knew I was putting so much effort and time and they made me one of them.
If not for them I would have been the quiet girl but now I love to talk and anyone can approach me for help and advise. It completely changed my life. So my advise to people Is never give up what you love to do, have that determination and a never give up attitude. Eventually you would be able achieve what you want one day.
5 Years from NOW
I want to share what I was 5 years ago. So many have taunted me since I was primary school. Ever since I entered EM3 stream to the Normal Technical stream in secondary school and being an ITE Student. The words, “Slow learner, No hope” just made me down. It affected my esteem deeply. That was the reason I lacked confidence, was quiet, reserved and was pretty much an introvert.
It was only after joining my hockey team and establishing some very close friendships that I received support and set some goals for my self.
My goal was to go to ITE and excel there, and then proceed to poly. I didn’t tell anyone my goal until today. I wanted to achieve it and felt that if I told people about my wanting to go to poly they might laugh and make sarcastic comments or ridicule me about have such dreams. You see, unfortunately, a substantial number of people have misconceptions that going to an ITE are the end of the road. However I was proud that I went to ITE and learned a lot there. Receiving sports awards was an achievement but having good grades was something to keep up with. My grades were mediocre when I was in Nitec. It was when I was in Higher Nitec that I reminded myself about my goal.
I worked very hard consistently to achieve good grades and excel in sports. After graduating from ITE, I was awarded the prestigious ‘Lee Kuan Yew Model Student Award’. Now I have also attained a place in NP. Too many students coming to poly may be just the next step in their course of education. To others it may be the second option to going to a junior college. But to me, it’s a privilege & I’m very proud of myself for coming this far.
In five years time, I want be doing my degree in either NUS or NTU. My steps to achieve my goal is to have the determination, hard work and by motivating myself to do better.
