I have been quite ill with my stomach issues over the last few days – though feeling a little better now. It has kept me at home and I have been looking at some issues to do with compulsive gambling – including low self-esteem.
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nI was listening to a podcast from Mark Manson – who suggests that most (not all) successful people have high self-esteem because they are successful and maybe didn’t start with it.
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nThat made me wonder if I have low self-esteem because I was addicted to gambling – or did I develop my addiction partly because I had low self-esteem in the first place. I suspect the latter and the gambling did nothing to boost it. Maybe if I had won big!? But that was never going to happen on slot machines.
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nI now recognise that my self-esteem goes up and down depending on what is going on in my life – and the more I achieve the better I feel about myself. Each day I go without gambling is a good day. A good day helps my self-esteem.
