Self-Control: Build Self-Discipline, Overcome Anxiety, Develop Good Habits & Live a Meaningful Life

By Dr. Michael Ericsson

Self-Control: Build Self-Discipline, Overcome Anxiety, Develop Good Habits & Live a Meaningful Life

If you want to Boost Self-Confidence, Stop Depression & Self Doubt, Achieve Personal Goals & Feel Good In Your Own Skin Again, then this is your book!

This book consists of awesome steps and strategies on how to develop your communication skills and use them to make more friends and persuade people.

When you have control over your thoughts and actions, then your self-esteem would go higher, and you will also learn how to develop yourself in such a way that you would become a better and stronger person. Learn how to improve self-esteem and enjoy life with the tips provided in this book. Read on and find out!

What You'll Learn in Self-Control: Build Self-Discipline, Overcome Anxiety, Develop Good Habits & Live a Meaningful Life...

How to Declutter, De-Stress and Simplify Your Life With Minimalism
How to Create a Life-Changing Morning Routine
How to Remove Anxiety
How to Boost Your Self-Confidence
How to Reduce Stress, Stay Calm and Achieve Happiness
How to Become Productive
How to Win Friends Through the Power of Charisma
How to Explore Yourself

What You'll Also Discover Inside...

Expect more from yourself than others. The good news - everyone believes in what you show. Nobody can read your thoughts to know your fears. The bad news - you can interpret every people's speech in a wrong way. Any weird reaction and you start worrying without any reason. Psychologists recommend listening to your "inner voice". Try a small experiment: write down every thought while you are lacking of self-confidence. Every time you start worrying, do a three-minute break. Take the list and remind yourself how great you are. Show to your brain the material proof of your self-confidence.

Think positive. It's the oldest trick in the book. If you know how to think positively, then things will be easier for you. Why? Because positive thinking might really do wonders. Aside from that, once you think positively, you will realize that you'll actually feel good about yourself, and that you will feel good about what's going on around you. And, even if things go wrong, you'd know that these are just challenges and that you can rise above them.

Appearance is everything. When you look good you feel good. Simple. If you are walking around looking like you just got out of a rubbish bin, you probably won't be too confident about yourself. We all know how you feel when you walk out of the hairdresser, you walk a bit taller, you walk with purpose. So look after yourself and dress your best and you will feel your best. You know your best features to show them off!

This book will help you to build your self esteem.  

Improving yourself takes time and effort. You have to be willing to make the changes and be committed to taking action rather than just reading about them.   

The next step is to put to work the steps written in this book and see your life change for the better. Remember, you can do this. Your life is in your hands—so make it great.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dr. Michael Ericsson
• Release date: Aug 25, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386044871

Book preview

Chapter 1 –  How to Start the Ultimate 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 tough 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 hard time since you don’t have enough resources.

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

Say a Prayer

Prayer is the most vital 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 chance 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 an honest heart and surely you will be heard!

Work that Body

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 things 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 important meal of the day, so don’t ignore breakfast. It is important because it helps give you 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 things you need to accomplish within the day. You may be conscious about your body which is why you may be focused on dieting, but you still need to have a breakfast every morning.

Show that Smile 

As you say your prayers and be intimate with the Creator, why not try to smile? Aside from being grateful 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 eliminates all that stress in you and replaces it with a worry-free morning. So smile but don’t just smile; show the world your biggest smile!

Go Crazy

One of the best ways to have that extra special cup of happiness is listening to your favorite song. Music helps relax your mind and helps you feel good about your day. It encourages you to be awesome 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 money. 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 fortune 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 and exercise may have a lot in common but these two are really very different things. In exercising, you are rewarded by a lot of sweat and that fat burning sensation you would feel after rigorous physical activity, but with meditation, you will get that relaxing feeling and the calmness you’ve always desired.

Being able to have a daily drink of your own fresh cup of happiness in the morning surely makes you the happiest person that is awake. Add a dose of positivity and it will be a perfect mix for starting your day and having a good day ahead.

Chapter 2 - How to Find Your Passion

If you have already uncovered your talent, then it's time to discover your passion in this world. Passion is a strong feeling of enthusiasm for something or about doing something. Unlike talent, passion can be shared. Therefore, individuals who have diverse skills can have the same passion. While those people who share the same interests, do not automatically have the same talents. A person can be interested in his talent but also with other activities in his life. However, a person's talent cannot be automatically his passion. If your passion is your talent, you will have more potential for achieving your goals. There would be less stress and hassle. Doing something that is already second nature to you and adoring every minute of it would likely motivate you to have success than completing something difficult and uninspiring.

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

Meditate. Passion is a driving force. It is unseen when it's not propelling something forward, such as talent. Therefore, passion can be more difficult to see than talent. You might have several inner talents such as writing, dancing and carving. One of these talents could be your passion in life.  It is not easy to decipher our multitude of wishes and pursuits into passion or just short-term obsession. You have to think from your internal core. To be able to access your inner core, you will need to meditate. Find a place where you can be still and be at calmness with your surroundings. Dive right down to your inner core to draw on your deepest and truest dreams in life. Ask yourself these questions:

a. What is my purpose in life?

b. What takes up most 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 do not 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 except for what I am doing?

When 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 make an effort to answer these questions. If you are in touch with this self, you would be able to understand the situation more clearly and answer these questions without bias.

Create a list of what you wish to experience. Before you start your list, you should consider things which you have imagined doing but never got around to. You may 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 worried to fail hence you never even tried it or it was way beyond your comfort zone. In making this specific list though, you need to include everything you have imagined doing without thought of the factors that have hampered you from doing it in the past. Look 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, high-risk or bold. Maybe it's not really your passion but who knows? While doing it, you might suddenly discover your true passion in life, that something which ignites a raging fire in you.

Try to experience at least five of those included in your list. At the soonest possible time, you should try to experience at least ten of those that you've included in your list. Personally experiencing it'll 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 about a particular subject; about his passion in life. You can never know what drives or excites you most if you have not done a great deal of interesting things in your life. Have a firsthand experience of the probable things that could get your adrenalin going. Take a shot and who knows? You may realize just what it is that you would wish to do for the rest of your life.

Exceed your comfort zone. You might be so used to your kind of life and your environment that it hampers you from discovering your passion. You have not been able to try