While many young children enjoy high levels of self-esteem, research shows that as they begin to age these levels begin to fall. By the time they become teenagers, many children report or exhibit signs of low self-esteem, with teen girls being more likely to suffer from the condition than teen boys.

The debilitating issue of low self-esteem can persist into adulthood. Experts reveal that it affects as many men as women, but men are more hesitant to seek out help. Low self-esteem affects how a person forms relationships, performs at their job and contributes to the development of their community and the society as a whole.

Your self-esteem is your perception of yourself and your capabilities. It encompasses how much you value and believe in yourself. It can manifest itself as your inner voice that tells you that you are capable, worthwhile and deserving of love and respect. It can also do the opposite, however, telling you that you are not good enough to achieve anything, or you are not worthy of the love and respect of others.

Quite often your self-esteem becomes greatly influenced by how other people see and treat you. This influence can be supportive, leading you to love yourself and hence to develop high self-esteem. This high self-esteem allows you to see yourself as deserving of a good life and of being treated fairly.

You have confidence in your capabilities and can honestly judge your strengths and weaknesses. You can form healthy relationships with others and offer nurturing support to those around you. It is because you love, appreciate and accept yourself that you can enjoy, appreciate and accept others.

You take these feelings of low self-esteem into your relationships and are unable to form healthy, nurturing bonds with others. Because you feel you are not worthy of acceptance, you settle into unproductive and harmful relationships. You may not attempt to excel at work because you believe you will only fail and disappoint others.

You are weighed down by feelings of depression and anxiety and cannot interact positively with persons you come in contact with. You are also unable to make worthwhile contributions to situations around you. Conversely, some individuals with low self-esteem strive to overachieve and be a perfectionist as a way of seeking the approval of others and not wanting to disappoint anyone.

Your self-esteem is not tied your talents or abilities. Someone who is excellent at something and has achieved success may still have poor self-esteem. Also, someone for whom achievement is a struggle might have good self-esteem.

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About the Author: Luke F. Gregory is an accounting expert at the base, self-development author, entrepreneur, and internet marketer.

He is sure that through education, correct information, mental consistency, patience and a little inspiration, we can all come to a level of prosperity. He firmly believes that the small opportunities are usually, the beginnings of a large business.

His desire is to help as many people in their journey through life and help them to have a better life and more fulfilled both financial and spiritual.

In the past ten years, has acquired and used the knowledge and experience in the two areas which he is passionate about, one being the internet marketing - financial advice and the other being that of personal development. These are the two sectors that live very well together, and the combination can be very profitable for you and those around you. After all, what you will learn from his books are knowledge and action.

He wants to share his experience that gained to those interested because he thinks the things he learned may be useful to those who want to know more about how can optimize their personal finances, how to manage money, investments and, in general, about how everyone can have a fulfilling life.

He is always guided by this next belief in everyday social life:

"Recognizing what type of person you are dealing with is an important first step to determining which method is most effective for dealing with them. That knowledge gives you the ability to see things differently and then react differently because of it."