In my early days of doing workshops, in the 1970s and 1980s, I talked a lot about self-esteem. One reason for this was that my close friend, Jack Canfield, was considered the expert on this subject, and we often attended each other’s talks and workshops, in addition to having personal conversations on our respective topics.
Sometimes someone would say to me, “Isn’t thinking you are great, wonderful, and a fantastic human being putting on airs, trying to lord it over other people?” I always answered by saying, “I think I’m great, but I think you’re great, too.” In other words, you can have a very high opinion of yourself and simultaneously have high opinions of others around you. We could call this, “Us-Esteem,” really loving and admiring yourself, but feeling the same way about people other than yourself.
I have been feeling great about myself in recent days, as I have carefully listened to my 1987 bestselling Nightingale-Conant cassette album, Moneylove, which I recently got the rights back to. I also had it transferred from six two-sided cassettes to 12 mp3 digital files. I’ve been amazed at how much I heard that I don’t remember ever saying, and have been jotting notes down like crazy as various ideas stimulate brand new ideas for future audios. I really felt good hearing myself say on the recording:
“Right now, you dont know how fantastic you are, and prosperity consciousness is the continuing process of finding out how fantastic you are, and discovering how to make others aware of this, and then having them happily pay you just to partake of your ideas, services, and products because they want a share of that fantastic energy you exude.”
Wow, I thought, that really feels good, and I’ll bet other people are getting the same good feelings I am getting by hearing it. From the initial feedback, they evidently are getting it, but the real revelation is that I am getting it, too, anew.
I think a useful question to ask ourselves whenever we engage with another person is whether we are exuding our own self-esteem in communicating with them, and whether we are honoring them with the same high opinion we have of ourselves. In other words, Us-Esteem.
Jerry
(For information on the new digital Moneylove album, click on Moneylove at the top center of this page.)
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