One of the foundations of building self esteem is to accept yourself internally and all of your flaws for what they are and to be okay with them.

Here's my question: If you're accepting yourself and your flaws and being okay with them, then isn't desiring to improve your own self esteem contradictory? If you're accepting that your self esteem sucks and you're trying to be okay with it, then what motivation do you have to improve if your making yourself okay with such a huge issue in your life?

I understand this thought process is flawed but I can't logically work out why.