how to build self-esteem

(See? Short posts make me want to post more :-) )

My wife has built herself up to be an amazing, self confident person...I asked her how she did it...these are my road map:

1. Make no excuses
2. Set really high standards
3. When you get answers from God, you have to do them
4. You have to WANT to be happy with yourself
5. You must take care of yourself
6. Do everything to be happy with yourself, no matter how hard those steps are
7. Ask yourself: When I am by myself, am I happy with myself
8. Pray for strength to do whatever is needed to do what is needed, regardless of other people
9. Don't build self-worth through big events, but through daily events...one day turns into three days, into a week, into a month
10. You have to want to have a good history and every day is building history
11. Joel Osteen says God promises you can and will be happy
12. You either believe or you don't - nothing in the middle
13. Sometimes you don't feel strong, but you have to know you are
14. Inside is a rock, emotions don't change that core