Hi, and welcome to Million Dollar Self Esteem!
This is a blog about my journey from an abusive childhood, buried deep in the victim mentality, through a process of gradual empowerment.
Through the process I discovered that as I improved my self esteem and self image, the world took notice and I started getting more and better things happening – including better pay or better jobs.
“Hmm, interesting”, thought I
So I played with it. I took every self-help course, book and manual I could find, threw together what can only be called a “shotgun approach” to improving my self esteem, and jumped my income from under $25k to just over $43k – IN A LITTLE OVER A MONTH! Not only that, but I had to stop myself from giggling insanely when the employment agency were apologetic that it might be a LOW salary for me, but these were the other advantages that they thought might make it interesting enough for me to consider…
That all went well, but as a temporary job will, it eventually ended. After about 9 contract extensions, lots of expanded responsibilities and commendations, and about a year more than it was originally intended to be.
A few months into unemployment, I got sick of constantly being rejected as “overqualified” or having an “unstable employment history” (read: temp and p/t jobs as I put myself through University). I remembered how I’d got the thing in the first place and thought I’d dust off the old ‘shotgun’ techniques I’d been using. I’d also done a lot of work on self-esteem online, founding the ‘Self Positivity’ site to share what I’d learnt and give back something of the help that I’d been extended whenever I needed it in my own journey, so I had a bit better idea of what was fundamental and what might be ‘optional’ from my original approach.
Of course since I didn’t have as much time – writing 10-20 job applications a week will eat a lot of it up, especially if you’re trying to do it properly – I couldn’t do everything, so I narrowed down what I’d been doing to what I thought were the core techniques, which took just over a half hour a day. I was mostly just looking for something around the same level as I’d been earning.
Again, it wasn’t long til I got job offers. Two of them. At the same time. One was pending some management person to arrive in the country to finalise their offer, the other was ready to go. Both of them were over $50k.
Remembering my ‘unstable history’ issue, I took the permanent, ready to go one. That was nearly 10 years ago now.
Since then, I’ve applied this to all kinds of things outside of work. It’s a combination Self-Help/Self-Esteem/Law of Attraction approach that has repeatedly worked, at just about everything I’ve thrown it at – including shifting from a place where I was not only unappreciated, but being bullied & harassed, to an amazing workplace with incredible people who are committed to the open, team approach I love to work with. I got it just in time, before the deadline my previous bosses had set up to get me turfed out altogether. As anyone who’s been through any form of bullying will know, one of the first things that gets targeted and demolished is your self esteem, so that was an uphill battle, I can tell you!
I’ve helped friends go from looking for “I’ll do just about anything, I’m not that qualified” to seeing how much they have to offer, and walking into median salary jobs or better.
Now, I’m curious to push the boundary. I want to see if I can use these techniques to build my income up to double once more. Then again. Could they possibly take me all the way to a million dollars?
Come with me on my journey to find out, as I test, refine and share what’s gone before into the most powerful, effective format I can possibly make it.
Welcome to Million Dollar Self Esteem.