I was taught as a child that pride was a bad thing. Well, we all know that too much pride can cause us to be full of ourselves, sell centered and have a know it all attitude, among other negative qualities.
I wasn’t taught as a child that pride can be a very good thing. I know now that we all need to have a decent amount of pride in order to have a decent amount of self esteem. Attaining the pride in ourselves in order to establish a decent amount of self esteem is sometimes difficult to do as an adult……. if it wasn’t instilled in us as we were growing up.
It has been my experience the past few years to discover that trying new things, accomplishing feats….no matter how small they may seem to others, and succeeding in our efforts, can help us to increase our pride in ourselves and our self esteem.
One of the things that I have been doing for approximately four years now is learning the computer, networking, building websites and blogs as well as posting on forums. I feel good about my accomplishments to date and I believe the success I’ve had thus far will only fuel the fire for me to learn and do more. These...