Enhancing the Self-Esteem

My brothers and sisters…

All of you possibly understand how important the self-esteem is for yourselves. Everyone really must
keep their self-esteem and should not let anyone underestimate and humiliate themselves.

You all might have known that self-esteem is an individual’s evaluation to self-honorary through the
attitudes towards himself and describe how far the individual valuates himself as a person who have
skills, meanings, preciousness, and competence. To gain self-esteem we have to start from ourselves,
start from little things, and start from this moment.

okay my friends, there are few steps to plant and enhance self-esteem in our lives :

• First, learn to always be grateful for yourselves. Although sometimes people condemn you but you
should always have intuition on yourselves that you have full rights for your life and you are the one
who understands the most about yourselves.
• Second, learn to love yourselves. Loving yourselves means accepting everything on yourselves
whatever it is and learning to improve the potentials you have. Look at the positive sides of yourselves
and the most important thing is to always be thankful for everything we have.
• Third, have positive self-image. This thing is related to self-acceptance. Self-image is way of viewing
yourselves. Convincing yourselves that you deserve to be successful, you deserve to be loved and
appreciated, and you are the special one.
• Fourth, do everything you think it is important to do. Although you may feel like unable to do anything
because you are too shy or scared, force yourselves out to go through that process. Have faith on
yourselves that you can do it.
• Fifth, learn how to live independently. Try to Live without depending on others so that you won’t be
susceptible to rejections.
• Sixth, do not relate your self-esteem with the failures and mistakes you have made.
• Seventh, have a right self-concept regarding self-esteem. Self-esteem comes from inside of us, not
from outside and not be found on materials we have.
• Eighth, appreciate yourselves. Do not refute any simple compliment said by people about us. Accept
all those compliments and think out further forward. Be careful of words on your mind like “I am
stupid”, “I just cannot do it”, “that’s all just a dream”, “It won’t come true”. Those words will ruin your
self-esteem you have been building up step by step. So audients we must to skip that away.

Ladies and gentlemen,

Those are all the things you can follow to make your self-esteem enhanced. Keep your self-esteem and
enhance it by following those eight recipes I have said earlier.

I hope everything I said will bring good things for us. I say my deep apology for any mistake all I made on
my words.
Wassalamu’alaikum wr.wb
 THE LACK OF ART APPRECIATION

Art is an expression of someone’s feeling which is so beautiful in the form of motion, form, tone, and
poetry. In Indonesia, many artists have varieties of potentials. For example, the master piece that has
been registered by UNESCO as a non-object cultural heritages, from Indonesia including puppets, keris
(Javanese sword), and batik. However Indonesian society is still considered to be lacking in apprecisting
works and art actors, even though the appreciation of works and actors in one of the sectors of the
creative economy is needed. There are many things that can lead this to happen, including : lack of
knowledge how important art is toward life, lack of copyright protection by the government, low
facilities, and low salaries obtained by artists.

Ladies and gentlemen, let’s take a look deeper those factors.

First one is lack of knowledge about art appreciation. It is a fundamental thing that leads to
undeveloped art. Many Indonesian people love foreign cultures more than their own cultures. This is
caused by bad environments. Early knowledge must be started from family, school, environment, and
information media. The second factor is lack of protection dealing with copyright in Indonesian art and
culture. In fact, many other countries have claimed Indonesian works as the copyright of their own
countries. The third is low facilities for developing artistic talent in Indonesia are also important factors.
For example, providing a theater to develop theater, dance, music, and more. The last factor is low
salary obtained by artists. Whereas, when compared to other countries with the same artwork, more
artists get better salaries, that can be used to pay for life and family.

So ladies and gentlemen, regarding to all those factor I mentioned before. There are some ways we can
take to do little things to appreciate artworks,

1. Purchasing original works of art to support creativity of the artists and not to buy illegal works.
That way, we can reconstruct the art actors to work better.
2. Reading, listening, praising, and criticizing an art work either verbally and in action in terms of
objectivity as a reference material for art actors to enhance the creativity and selling value of
the artwork.

It is fitting that we grow the value of appreciation for the work of Indonesian artists from an early age.
And of course also supported by the Indonesian government which provides all facilities.