​​​​How To Build Self Esteem & Confidence In 1 Hour

Towards the end of this lesson, you’ll learn about the 1 Hour Self Esteem & Self Confidence Challenge, as well as how to get 1 year of FREE access to the Positive Thinking Tool by taking the challenge. This offer is only available for a limited time.

If you already know what low self esteem is, and why you want to get rid of low self esteem and its negative effects, as well as what high self esteem is, and why you want to develop high self esteem and enjoy its positive benefits, then you are now mentally ready and motivated to improve your self esteem.

Right now, you’re going to learn how to build positive self esteem in a very simple, easy way, so that you immediately enjoy the positive effects of higher self esteem, including greater confidence, happiness, and success in life.

How can I build my self esteem?

Self esteem is simply the way that you think about yourself.

So if you want to know how to have good self esteem, or how to regain self esteem you might have lost, it’s very easy to do: eliminate negative thoughts about yourself (or thoughts that aren’t that positive), and replace them with more positive thoughts and views about yourself.

The result is that you instantly increase your self esteem, and therefore your self confidence as well, since an increase in self esteem naturally leads to an increase in self confidence.

The name of the game is simple: always see yourself in the most positive way that your mind can comfortably and honestly accept.

Just by doing this, you are guaranteed to build up your self esteem and self confidence very quickly. So this is how to rebuild self esteem in a very simple, powerful, straightforward, methodical way.

Examples of how to build up self esteem and self confidence fast

If you want to build up your self esteem and self confidence super fast, start by targeting harsh, critical, negative things that you think about yourself, and replace them with the most positive view that you can comfortably and honestly accept.

For example, if you think a thought like “I’m fat”, you could replace this negative thought with more positive thoughts like “I can become thinner and healthier”, or “I like and accept the way I look right now”, or even “I have a good, healthy weight”, if you find that to be the case upon reflection.

The lesson, here, is to not force yourself to think in positive ways that feel false or phony to you. For example, if you think that you’re fat, thinking a thought like “I’m thin” won’t do you any good at all, if you reject the thought as blatantly false.

But you could definitely accept a more positive thought like “I can become thinner”, and this is already a good, more positive replacement for the thought “I’m fat.”

This is how to deal with self esteem issues and self confidence problems intelligently by replacing negative thoughts about yourself with valid, acceptable positive thoughts about yourself, so that you increase your self esteem and self confidence quickly and easily.

Another example of how to build self confidence and self esteem by thinking more positively about yourself

Similarly, let’s say that you think of yourself as having low self esteem, and this makes you feel bad about yourself and less confident. It won’t do you any good to try to think a thought like “I have high self esteem”, if you clearly don’t think that’s the case, yet.

But instead of thinking “I have low self esteem”, which is a way of viewing yourself in a more negative light, you can think of yourself more positively by thinking “I can improve my self esteem”, or “I can develop high self esteem”, or “I’m already increasing my self esteem, and growing in self esteem with every positive change in thinking that I make”.

As always, the name of the game is to view yourself in the most positive light that your mind can comfortably and honestly accept, and to “upgrade” your perception of yourself as soon as possible.

So, for example, if you currently think it’s phony to think of yourself as having high self esteem, don’t do it. But after you make some significant improvements in your thinking, you might find that you can reasonably, comfortably, and honestly accept that you have high self esteem.

And if that is the case, then start thinking “I have high self esteem” the moment you can comfortably and honestly accept that as true, because it is a very powerful, positive, wonderful view of yourself that will naturally increase your self esteem and self confidence even more.

How do I build my self esteem even faster?

From this moment forward, if you identify a negative view of yourself, deliberately choose to see no value in it whatsoever, and look forward to replacing it with a more positive view as soon as possible in order to increase your self esteem, self confidence, and enjoyment of life.

For example, if you find yourself thinking an extremely negative thought about yourself like “I’m such a loser”, which makes your self esteem plummet, immediately replace it with a more positive thought like “I can improve my life and situation” or “I’m a great person”.

As always, the name of the game is to adopt the most positive view of yourself that you can accept, so if you’re not yet ready to comfortably and honestly accept the view “I’m a great person”, that’s fine; you can easily adopt another positive view like “I can improve my life and situation”, which you can comfortably and honestly accept.

The lesson here is to appreciate that a negative thought like “I’m a loser” holds no value for you whatsoever, and indeed, even makes your life worse, by draining your self esteem and self confidence. In contrast, a more positive thought like “I can improve my life” is of tremendous positive value to you, especially since it increases your self esteem and self confidence.

So it’s an easy no-brainer: always replace a useless, valueless negative thought about yourself, with a useful, valuable, valid or true positive thought about yourself that you can comfortably and honestly accept, and enjoy the immediate benefits of doing so.

Making this a regular habit is how to build up self confidence and self esteem very quickly on a regular basis.

A common self esteem building obstacle: true negative thoughts

Of course, a big catch for you might be that you think a negative thought about yourself is valuable, important, and worth thinking just because it’s valid or true.

For example, let’s say you tell me “I have no friends”, and I tell you that it’s a useless, valueless negative thought that drains your self esteem and self confidence.

If you respond with “But it’s true”, then that demonstrates that you think such a thought is valuable and worth thinking, just because it’s true.

This is a big glitch in thinking, because just because a thought is valid or true, that does not mean it’s valuable and worth thinking.

How to improve self esteem and self confidence by removing a glitch in thinking

To understand why this is a glitch in thinking, appreciate how it’s perfectly valid to see a glass as half empty or half full.

Even though both views are equally valid, if seeing the glass as half empty makes you miserable and depressed, while seeing the glass as half full makes you feel happy and upbeat, then the glass half empty view is of no value to you, while the glass half full view is of tremendous value to you.

Similarly, even if it’s valid and true to think the negative thought “I have no friends”, it’s just as valid and true to think the more positive thought “I can make friends”.

The difference is that the valid, true negative thought drains your self esteem and self confidence, while the valid, true positive thought increases your self esteem and self confidence. This means that the negative thought is of no value to you, even though it’s valid and true, while the valid, true positive thought is of tremendous positive value to you.

Once this is clear to you, it will be easy for you to let go of lots of negative thoughts about yourself that lower your self esteem and self confidence, since you appreciate they are of no value to you, even if they’re valid or true, and you will naturally seek out more valid, true positive thoughts about yourself that increase your self esteem and self confidence.

The overall result is that you will increases your self esteem and self confidence very quickly this way. So this is how to raise your self esteem intelligently and effectively by removing a common glitch in thinking.

How to boost your self esteem and confidence in 5 minutes or less

Lots of people who suffer from low self esteem are under the mistaken impression that it has to take them a long time of struggling with low self esteem before they are able to improve their self esteem and feel better about themselves.

But the truth is that you can learn how to boost self esteem very quickly by taking the smartest, most powerful, most effective strategy to boosting your self esteem that exists: deliberately replacing negative thoughts about yourself with positive thoughts about yourself.

Think about it: your self esteem increases the moment you replace a negative thought (or not very positive thought) about yourself with a more positive thought about yourself, which means that you can increase your self esteem as quickly as you can change your thinking.

To appreciate how fast this can occur, you can easily replace a negative thought about yourself like “I have no friends” with a more positive thought about yourself like “I can make friends” in 5 minutes or less.

You could probably even make this change in thinking in 1 minute or less, which means that you can easily increase your self esteem in 60 seconds or less.

So this is how to gain self esteem and self confidence at super fast speeds. Indeed, it’s how to develop self esteem and self confidence very quickly by knowing how to improve your thinking, and then taking action to do it.

Right now, appreciate that you already know how to raise self esteem and confidence faster than most other people, and then set up a fun challenge for yourself: see how much you can improve your self esteem in 1 hour by deliberately improving your thinking about yourself in many different ways.

Challenge: how to improve your self esteem and confidence a lot in 1 hour

To take the 1 Hour Self Esteem & Self Confidence Challenge, grab a piece of paper and a pen, and make a list of the biggest negative, self-critical thoughts that you have about yourself, which currently make you have lower self esteem.

Then, systematically, go through each negative thought one by one, and over the course of an hour, replace it with a more positive thought about yourself, always going for the most positive view of yourself that you can comfortably and honestly accept.

If it takes you 5 minutes to replace a negative thought with a more positive thought, that means you can replace 12 negative thoughts about yourself with 12 positive thoughts about yourself over the course of 1 hour, and by doing so, you will immediately experience a huge boost in your self esteem and self confidence.

If it only takes you 2 minutes to replace a negative thought with a more positive thought, then you can replace 30 negative thoughts about yourself with 30 positive thoughts about yourself over the course of 1 hour, which will increase your self esteem and self confidence even more.

The big insight, here, is that you have a lot of power, because you ultimately determine how quickly you increase your self esteem and self confidence by how quickly you improve your thinking.

And when you make it your mission to improve your thinking like this, you will see dramatic results from it. So this is how to get your self esteem back and boost your confidence levels quickly by turning it into a fun challenge, and seeing what amazing things you’re capable of quickly achieving.

How to increase self esteem and self confidence with the Positive Thinking Tool

To make this self esteem challenge even more powerful and effective, it is highly recommended that you use the Positive Thinking Tool.

Get started by specifying: “I want to stop thinking negatively & think more positively about: Myself”. (In other words, just type in “Myself” at the tool’s prompt, in order to focus on improving thoughts about yourself.)

Then, after you make your list of negative thoughts about yourself that you want to eliminate, just enter each of the negative thoughts into the Positive Thinking Tool one by one, so that you deliberately go through the process of replacing each negative thought with a more positive thought.

This is how to gain confidence and self esteem in a very intelligent, effective, productive, systematic way.

An example of how to have better self esteem & self confidence using the Positive Thinking Tool

The Positive Thinking Tool benefits you by helping you rewire your mind for positivity, so that it’s natural and automatic for you to think a more positive thought than a negative thought.

For example, let’s say you appreciate that both “I have no friends” and “I can make friends” are equally valid thoughts, but you find that you think the negative thought “I have no friends” naturally and automatically, and you have to keep reminding yourself to think the more positive thought “I can make friends”.

The Positive Thinking Tool guides you through a process that eliminates your mind’s motivation to think the negative thought, and increases your mind’s motivation to think the positive thought, so that it becomes an easy, natural, automatic no-brainer for you to think “I can make friends” instead of “I have no friends”.

The ultimate payoff is that you naturally and automatically always enjoy greater self esteem and self confidence as a result, as well as greater happiness and success.

For this reason, right now, use the information you learned in this lesson, and take the 1 Hour Self Esteem & Self Confidence Challenge with the Positive Thinking Tool, and see how much you can increase your self esteem and self confidence in 1 hour.

You will be amazed by the results, and your life will be forever better for it. Just try it for yourself and see.

For a limited time: take the 1 Hour Self Esteem & Self Confidence Challenge and get FREE full access to the Positive Thinking Tool for 1 year

Here’s how the challenge works:


1. Decide to take the challenge (see challenge details)

2. Send an email to me, David Fonvielle, at dave@alwaysgreater.com with the subject “positive thinking challenge”

3. In the email, specify the email address for your Always Greater account (click here to create an account, if you don’t have one already)

4. I will give 1 year of full free access to the Positive Thinking Tool to the specified account

5. In return, after you’ve taken the challenge, please send me a brief email, letting me know if you’ve noticed an immediate positive difference or not after taking the challenge and using the Positive Thinking Tool (I am looking for feedback on the Positive Thinking Tool, so this will help me)


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Section 4 Lessons:

  1. What is self esteem and why is it important?
  2. What is low self esteem & what causes it?
  3. What is high self esteem & what are its benefits?
  4. How to build self esteem & confidence in 1 hour

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Hi, I'm Dave Fonvielle, the founder of Always Greater. On this website I teach you step by step how to be happier and more successful achieving your goals, whether it's completing a small personal to do task, like doing the dishes, or a large business goal, like launching a new product. Get my free 3 Tiny Habits for Being Happier & More Successful training for all of this right here.