Esteem is feeling that lives in human mind for a person. Esteem grows for persons who are worthy of being esteemed. Self esteem is feeling what human thinks of himself. Self esteem is necessary for human being for many reasons. First of all, a person wants to be esteemed naturally. A person with low self esteem cannot be happy and successful in his life.

Self esteem does not grow automatically. There must have some reason to have self esteem. Self esteem grows by your own activities, character, thinking etc.
There are some ways to improve self esteem depicted hereafter.

1 Think positive: All acts have two endings. One is success and another is failure. Thinking positive means you shall look to success not to failure. You shall have 100 percent confidence that you shall achieve success. And you shall work as if there is no chance of failure. This positive attitude improves self esteem that you are able and you can do this. There may be persons who discourage you. But, you have to remember that you are not that what others think of you. Rather, you are that what you think of yourself.

2 Do something for others: Doing something for others without expecting nothing in return improves self esteem. If you do something beneficial for others without any consideration, you shall feel something different about you. Just do this and see how much serenity you shall feel. Your self esteem shall improve very much.

3 Think noble: Human become that what he thinks. If you think evil, then you shall suddenly fall on evil. Noble thinking turns a person into a noble person. Think of doing something for others, think of something creative, and think of something beautiful.

4 Earn knowledge: Being ignorant is shameful. Self esteem usually does not grow in ignorant persons. You should always attempt to know about various subjects. So much you know so much self esteem grows. There may be economic value or not. But you have to earn knowledge.

5 Count your blessings: There is hardly any person in this world who got everything he wanted. Human does not get all things which he wants. All people have some kind of lacking whether it is wealth, beauty, body etc. You have to count your blessing meaning what you have and you got. If you start counting blessing, you shall see lots of things you got in your life. You lead a better that many persons around you. This shall improve your self esteem.