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If You Overcome Your Fear To Ask Someone For A Date, A Raise, Or Help With A Project, That Is An Act Of Self-assertiveness. You Are Moving Out Into Life Rather Than Contracting And Withdrawing.

If You Choose Not To Live Self-responsibly, You Count On Others To Make Up Your Default. No One Abjures Self-responsibility On A Desert Island.

The Higher Our Self-esteem, The Stronger The Drive To Express Ourselves, Reflecting The Sense Of Richness Within. The Lower Our Self-esteem, The More Urgent The Need To "prove" Ourselves Or To Forget Ourselves By Living Mechanically And Unconsciously.

Suppose You Feel You Cannot Accept Some Fact About Yourself. Then Own Your Refusal To Accept. Own The Block. Embrace It Fully. And Watch It Begin To Disappear. The Principal Is This: Begin Where You Are-accept That. Then Change And Growth Become Possible.

As You Grow In Self-esteem, Your Face, Manner, Way Of Talking And Moving Will Tend Naturally To Project The Pleasure You Take In Being Alive.