The six pillars of self esteem are a vital key to success. Self acceptance is one the six pillars of self esteem. If you don't have a good level of self esteem and self acceptance then you will find that being successful is more difficult. Your interactions with people will not produce the results you want, you will suffer from poor motivation and you will drift from day to day running the risk of not facing up to reality.

The six pillars of self esteem include facing up to facts, being willing to stand up for ourselves, having a purpose, having integrity, and being responsible for our own actions.

The last of the six pillars of self esteem is self acceptance - being willing to experience who we are even if we don't like what we see. Only a person with high self esteem can accept themselves for who they truly are. If you want personal growth and personal success, you will need to be able to accept yourself as you are.

A failure of self acceptance will cost you dearly

Being unwilling to accept yourself for what you really are can lead you to wasting enormous amounts of time and energy trying to be something you are not. In the long run this effort is usually wasted as you true self come shining through -warts and all!

While you are busy rejecting our true self, you are increasing our levels of unhappiness, stress and anxiety. If you have severe difficulty in accepting yourself, the mental consequences can be very serious indeed.

How to accept yourself?

Of the six pillars of self esteem, self acceptance is the one that is most closely associated with our past conditioning and it is most deeply rooted in our very core. Improving your levels of self acceptance can take time and patience, however the rewards in terms of personal growth and personal success are very worthwhile.

Very often we have the most difficulty accepting our own faults - we seem them as massive mountains, when if we could see ourselves as other see us, they would just be tiny molehills. So one thing to do is to get the opinions of people who you trust to be honest with you and who you know will help you.

On the flip side, if you are person who does not have the six pillars of self esteem firmly embedded in your makeup, it is very common to overlook many of your positive qualities in favour of beating yourself up about your weaknesses. Find some time to sit down quietly and think about the successes you've had throughout your life. Identify and write down all the positive qualities that have led to those successes.

Think about people you know well enough to recognise their good and bad sides. That should help you to realise that no one's perfect. If everyone were perfect, the world would be a very uninteresting place. You need some imperfections to highlight your best qualities

Provided you faults don't lead you to be dishonest, immoral, or cause harm to other people, accept that there's nothing wrong with them.

Where your faults have led you to make mistakes, don't beat yourself up endlessly for your perceived failure. Understand that there's no such thing as failure or mistakes, they are just learning experiences. If you can use them to move forward you will be much better off

Finally try at all times to make sure that all your actions are aligned with universal principles such as love, mutual respect, honesty, integrity... that way you don't have anything to feel bad about.

Working on the six pillars of self esteem, which includes working on accepting yourself for what you are, both the good and the not so good is important for you to live a happy and fulfilled live, achieving personal growth and personal success. There are many keys to success that let you come to terms with yourself as you are.