Being a Self-esteem Coach in Japan can be extremely challenging. Most Japanese people have never heard the word self-esteem, and those who have heard it believe that it means the same as selfish. I asked a group of Japanese company workers if they knew what self-esteem is. The first person had never heard the word, [...]

Self confidence is a psychological and emotional state of mind that responds to an individual’s need for recognition and self-acceptance. It’s one of the oldest and most studied concepts in psychology. It describes a positive but also realistic perception somebody has of himself or herself and of his or her abilities. Thus, people with self [...]

MONEY: AN IDEA BACKED BY CONFIDENCE It has been discovered some time in the 1960’s that the inability of a person to define the words or symbols of a language or a subject makes the full understanding of that language or subject outside the grasp of a person. A person will be unable to fully [...]