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Hey everyone and welcome to episode number 75 of the Absolute Mind podcast.

It's next week's final instalment on the topic of

discussion around self-confidence in your teenagers or in yourself, if you're currently in your

teens or early 20s. Having low self-esteem can really impact your life. So today, I will be giving

you even more tips on how to improve your self-confidence and just

explaining why self-esteem and confidence is important. As always, at the end of the podcast,

there will be a hypnosis section that you can all keep. You can all continue to listen to and

all continue growing and learning from and living your life without limits. As always, before I get

started, I want to continue to say thank you, thank you, thank you. Yesterday I had my highest

number of downloads. I've hit my goal. I hit my top record. So thank you very much for continuing to download. It means so much that you are.

And it makes me continue to want to do these. At least I know some of you are listening out there, which is brilliant.

So please keep doing the downloads. Keep heading over, adding me on Facebook and Twitter and giving me some feedback or even a rating or a review,

I love to hear everything that you've got to say. So let me get started quickly onto the

discussion of self-esteem and why it's important. Now I felt that this week I've discussed a lot

of things that can cause low confidence in teenagers, a lot of things that you can look

out for as a parent. But I haven't really brushed on the importance of having a good

self-confidence. Now, how we feel about ourselves, it can influence how you live your life.

So if you feel that you're likable and lovable, for example, people with good

self-esteem, they have better relationships, more likely to ask for help and support from friends and

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