THE PROBLEM WITH HIGH SELF-ESTEEM

If a person ever tells you that they have high self-esteem, the best response is to say, “I’m sorry to hear that. I’m available if you want some coaching on that subject. With Meta-Coaching you can certainly be unleashed from that and liberated to a much healthier life-style.”

Of course, they will then do a double-take.

“What?” “I don’t understand.” “What are you saying?” “Is there a problem with high self-esteem?” “I thought that you’d be delighted to hear that I have high self-esteem.”

By inducing a state of confusion like that will dis-orient the person enough to begin this kind of questioning and, hopefully, put him or her in a position to consider a better alternative. But don’t save the person from their confusion too quickly. The PR on “high self-esteem” is so dominate in our cultures around the world that it’s good to keep and even deepen the disorientation in order to get a more thorough hearing for what you have to say.