Low self esteem management

From my own personal experience, I collected a few pointers I think would be healthy for you self esteem.

1. Seclusion: I find that it is useful to retreat from worldly life once a while, especially from the media orientated life which invoke superficial expectation and demand which may not be fulfilled. In time when not provoke and overly exposed by negative views, your heart will calm down and heal it self.
2. Believe in mutual respect for all: You should change your belief system from discrimination to equality in term of mutual respect. How everyone has the right to be respected, every living beings. Only through respecting others can you feel you have the right to also be respected. If you begin to discriminate and disrespect otherwise, it is in due time that the disrespectful mentality will engulf you.
3. Base your values on inner qualities and not superficialness: Do not base you values on superficialness such as beauty, fame, wealth etc... but base them on inner qualities and true virtues. This is clarity, wisdom and justice, for if you have done nothing wrong you have nothing to feel worthless about. For the shallow world, the winner is the best looking, the most successful, the most rich etc... where those superior in a superficial sense are considered greater than the inferior. This is the wrong belief system which will leads to inequality and low self esteem. Believe that greatness is measure from inner qualities and virtues such as fairness, honesty, clarity, kindness, compassion, wisdom, sincerity, nobility etc... This is the noble and correct way of seeing the greatness in people. In that way, you are not subjected to feel inferior nor intimidated to people who possess empty, shallow and superficial qualities. In that way, you feel you are holding a sense of values, respect and dignity, something to be confident and please about.
4. Do not seek approval from others for your values: a lot of people measure their values and self worth by the opinions of others, which is dangerous, misleading and not true. No one have the rights to label you and give you value, as it is their own business. If someone don't like your ways, then it is their business, as long as you are not harming others and yourself. If you believe that everyone should have respect, dignity and values, then you are indeed entitled for values, as you are a human!
5. Know unwholesomeness reduce values: if you act, speech and think in a unwholesome and harmful way, then you know yourself that you have less values in virtues. A sense of remorse is useful for reforms, improvement and self development.
6. Avoid negative influences: If you could, try to avoid certain individual that is not healthy for your self esteem, this may include people who is overly arrogant and egotistic who tries to prove a point that they are better than others due to their insecurities. They may behave by looking down at others with regards to superficial aspect like beauty, status, wealth and what not. Or there are people who tries to gain superficial status by acting like funny clowns and jack ass, to degrade themselves since they are scare of failing and prefer forfeiting without a challenge, which is ironically the same as failing.