Personal Success: Boost Self-Confidence, Think Positive, Improve Social Skills & Live a Meaningful Life

By Dr. Michael Ericsson

Personal Success: Boost Self-Confidence, Think Positive, Improve Social Skills & Live a Meaningful Life

If you want to Build Self-Control, Ged Rid of Social Anxiety & Shyness, Stay Motivated & Influence People, then this is your book!

This book consists of great tips and techniques on how to be happy and on how you can harness inner peace.

By the time you are done reading this book, you will have information you need to boost your self-confidence so you gain more friends and enjoy life again. This book will teach you how to re-channel your energy so you begin to empower yourself and be the person you want to be.

What You'll Learn in Personal Success: Boost Self-Confidence, Think Positive, Improve Social Skills & Live a Meaningful Life...

How to Become a Minimalist and Declutter Your Life
How to Eliminate Procrastination
How to Achieve Your Goals
How to Master Your Self-Confidence
How to Practice Mindfulness
How to Master Your Self-Control
How to Become a Good and Assertive Leader
How to Discover Your Passion

What You'll Also Discover Inside...

Set smaller goals. I don't mean that you should not reach for the stars, however, I do know that to get to the stars you need to first get into the atmosphere. Feeling good about yourself is a constant process. Confidence does not just happen overnight. When you look at your life goals consider breaking them up into smaller, stepping stones to the end result. That way you can have a constant flow of positive reinforcement as you achieve the steps along the journey of life.

Positive statements. Remember the choice-to train? I know, I can, I know, I can! Positive statements are not about being oblivious to the not so positive but is about the right framing of your reality. Ever the most unpleasant event can be stated in some form of a positive statement. These statements give you the chance to build a productive positive outlook on life which supports your confidence in life. Having a positive outlook on life allows you to access far more of your abilities, thus, you are able to achieve more every day.

Exercise. Once you exercise, even just simple running, you'll notice that you get this surge of adrenaline. This is because happy hormones are released and thus, you feel more confident about yourself, and more confident that you are actually capable of doing great things. Plus, once you exercise, you'll get to be happy and very beautiful, too.

This book will help you improve emotional intelligence and self-confidence in both your work and personal life.  

I would like to encourage you to begin the journey by looking at yourself and accepting what you see. There can never be another you so be all you can be for the time being.   

The next step is to apply the necessary information from this book in your daily living. You can also share it to your friends or work colleagues who are in need of help on how to raise emotional intelligence and improve self-confidence.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dr. Michael Ericsson
• Release date: Aug 24, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386110392

Book preview

Chapter 1 –  How to Dominate Your Day with Morning Routine

What do you do the moment you wake up? Do you start your day by checking messages on your tablet? Or by checking your news feeds from different social media sites on your laptop? Or by doing nothing because you don’t really have any time for any morning rituals because you’re late for work or school? Or you simply woke up late and have nothing to do but sleep again?

Sounds familiar, right? You may be a night owl but being a morning person is not so bad. According to researchers, whatever you do first thing in the morning actually affects the whole day ahead. You may be wondering how.

Let’s put it this way: you’re a writer and you’re starting a new book but you find it hard to start writing because you can’t seem to make up your mind or better yet you have no springboard. In another context, you’re a businessman and you’re starting out on a new venture but then you’re having a difficult time since you don’t have enough resources.

Just like a good book having an awesome springboard or a successful business having enough resources, you too must have an awesome springboard and enough resources so that your day would end up being a fascinating one! Here are some of the resources you ought to have:

Say a Prayer

Prayer is the ultimate way for starting your day right. When you start and end your day with a prayer, you will have a peaceful heart and a peaceful soul. Your prayer does not have to be lengthy and full of sugar coated words. Just pray to be thankful for another opportunity in life and to pray for strength to hold on through all the challenges you are currently facing and for all the challenges that are to come. Pray with a sincere heart and surely you will be heard!

Exercise

Once you’re finished improving your spirit, why not exercise your body? Exercising is one way of keeping your body healthy and in shape. Health experts believe that there are many benefits you can gain when you exercise. Here are some: You get energized and surely you’ll shake off that lazy feeling. You’ll have an increased metabolism which pretty much helps you become more resistant to common sicknesses. You would surely decrease the risk of high blood pressure, heart disease and other risky things that pop up. Those are just some of the benefits you would get when you work that body. So, start working that body and show the world what you have benefitted from exercising.

Don’t forget to Eat

Experts say that breakfast is the most vital meal of the day, so don’t miss breakfast. It is important because it gains the energy you need to start your day and because it is linked to many health benefits. Also, eating breakfast helps you feel less tired and helps keep you focused on the tasks you need to accomplish within the day. You may be conscious about your body which is why you may be concentrated on dieting, but you still should eat breakfast each morning.

Show that Smile 

While you say your prayers and be intimate with the Creator, why not try to smile? Aside from being thankful for another day, smiling to a new day actually helps you start your day with a good mood. It helps you feel good and ultimately makes you happy. It reduces all that stress in you and replaces it with a worry-free morning. So smile but don’t just smile; show the world your best smile!

Go Crazy

One of the best ways to have that extra special cup of happiness is listening to your favorite song. Music helps calm your mind and helps you feel good about your day. It motivates you to be magnificent and to be who you want to be. So turn the volume up, sing your heart out and shake that body to the beat of the music!

Simply You

Simple joys in life are worth more than the happiness you get from having fame and fortune. You may be rich and famous but somehow there would come a time that you won’t be happy anymore and all that fame and money would somehow cease to exist. Don’t miss out on all the things that make you happy. What matters most is how happy your heart is and how your happiness infects others.

Meditate

Meditation is a way for you to inner peace and to lengthen your patience. It is a way of being one with the world and to feel the stillness of it all. It is a way for you to take a break even just for a couple of minutes. And by meditating, you get to harness your inner legend and be that inner legend within yourself.

As you work on starting your day right, accompany it with a cup of happiness and you’ll surely get that savory mixture and that lovely feeling that would surely do you well.

Chapter 2 - How to Uncover Your Passion

What differentiates passion from talent? Or are they similar to each other? Passion is a motivation - a dynamism that drives you to do something while talent is natural in a person. Passion needs rationalization and confirmation while talent only needs manifestation. Talent exists without us comprehending the why and what of its presence. Passion is what fuels or motivates talents. Passion is what gets you through in this world when talent is not enough. Doing something that is already second nature to you and adoring every minute of it would likely motivate you to achieve success than accomplishing something difficult and uninspiring.

So what are the steps to finding your passion in life?

Meditate. Passion is a huge force. It is unseen when it's not propelling something forward, such as talent. Hence, passion can be more difficult to ascertain than talent. You might have several inner skills such as writing, dancing and carving. One of these talents could be your passion in life.  It is not easy to decipher our large number of desires and pursuits into passion or just temporary obsession. You have to think from your internal core. To be able to access your inner core, you need to meditate. Look for a place where you can be still and be at calmness with your environment. Dive down to your inner core to draw on your deepest and truest aspirations in life. Ask yourself these questions:

a. What is my goal in life?

b. What occupies the majority of my time?

c. What do I love doing?

d. If I will be given the opportunity to do one thing for the rest of my life, what would it be?

e. What would I do even if I don't get any compensation or received anything for it in return?

f. What is it that I do that animates me?

g. What makes me forget everything else aside from what I am doing?

If you can answer these questions in all honesty then you'll find important hints that will help you define your passion in life. You need to really focus on your inner self, before you try to answer these questions. If you're in touch with this self, you would be able to perceive the situation more clearly and answer these questions without bias.

Make a list of what you wish to experience. Before you start your list, you should think about things that you've dreamed of doing but never got around to. You might not have done such things because of some factors such as - you didn't have courage to do it; you do not have the money for it; your family was against it; you were too afraid to fail hence you never even tried it or it was way beyond your comfort zone. In making this particular list though, you need to include all that you have imagined doing without consideration of the factors which have hampered you from doing it before. Go over your list in case you might have missed out on something that had interests you in the past. Include everything you have imagined doing even though you think it's highly impractical, dangerous or vivid. Maybe it isn't really your passion but who knows? While doing it, you might suddenly find your true passion in life, that something which ignites a raging flame in you.

Make an effort to experience at least five of those included in your list. At the soonest possible time, you should try to do at least ten of those that you've included in your list. Personally experiencing it will give you an inkling of what really interests you, what lights you up above all else. Passion is what makes a usually quiet person talk animatedly in regards to a particular subject; about his passion in life. You can never really know what drives or excites you most if you haven’t done a lot of interesting things in your life. Have a firsthand experience of the probable things that could get the adrenalin going. Take a shot and who knows? You may realize just what it is that you would love to do for the rest of your life.

Go beyond your comfort zone. You may be so used to your kind of life and your environment that it hampers you from discovering your passion. You have not had the opportunity to try anything new which is out of your usual league or have not traveled away from home-to-work road. Then it's time so that you can try new things which people would