Self-Esteem: Boost Self-Confidence, Overcome Fear & Shyness, Build Leadership Skills & Influence People

By Dr. Michael Ericsson

Self-Esteem: Boost Self-Confidence, Overcome Fear & Shyness, Build Leadership Skills & Influence People

If you want to Master Self-Confidence, Beat Depression & Stress, Be Charismatic & Feel The True Freedom, then this is your book!

This book contains great steps and techniques on how to learn ways to control and learn how to discipline yourself.

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 develop self-confidence and enjoy life with the tips provided in this book. Read on and find out!

What You'll Learn in Self-Esteem: Boost Self-Confidence, Overcome Fear & Shyness, Build Leadership Skills & Influence People...

How to Declutter and Organize Your Life With Minimalism
How to Eliminate Procrastination
How to Remove Anxiety
How to Develop Great Habits
How to Live in The Present Moment Through Mindfulness
How to Develop Your Self-Esteem
How to Become a Good and Assertive Leader
How to Develop Emotional Intelligence

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 have 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, therefore, you are able to achieve more every day.

Take care of your health. If you feel good, you can achieve a lot. Regular exercises develop physical strength, perseverance and increase stress resistance. Choose a healthy diet and sleep a lot. Breaks for rest and relaxation, your personal time should be as usual in your daily routine as, for example, brushing your teeth. Enjoy the fact that you look good, and try to take everything from life. Others will look at you with interest and respect.

This book will help you to improve your self-confidence to overcome social anxiety and shyness.  

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 put the useful information you found here into practice day by day, and begin to enjoy the wholesomeness of life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dr. Michael Ericsson
• Release date: Aug 25, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386544067

Book preview

Chapter 1 –  How to Win Your Day with Morning Routine

What do you do the moment you wake up? Do you start your day by checking messages on your phone? 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 entire 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 an entrepreneur 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 amazing 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 an awesome one! Here are some of the springboards 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 mastering 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 will have an improved joint performance and reduced threat of arthritis. You would feel great about yourself and start to build your confidence. 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 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 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 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 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 takes away all that stress in you and replaces it with a secured morning. So smile but don’t just smile; show the world your best smile!

Go Crazy

One of the greatest ways to have that extra special dose of happiness is listening to your favorite beat. Music helps relax your mind and helps you feel good about your day. It inspires 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 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 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 other people.

Meditate

Meditation is a way for you to increase 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 pause 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 Discover Your Passion

What discerns passion from talent? Or are they congruent to one another? Passion is an inspiration - a dynamism that drives you to act while talent is inherent in a person. Passion needs rationalization and verification while talent only needs manifestation. Talent exists without us comprehending the why and what of its existence. 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 for you and loving every minute of it would likely motivate you to have success than achieving 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. Thus, passion can be more difficult to ascertain than talent. You may have several inner talents such as drawing, dancing and running. One of these talents could be your passion in life.  It is not easy to decipher our multitude of wishes and dreams into passion or just short-term obsession. You need to think from your internal core. To be able to access your internal core, you will need to meditate. Find a place where you will be still and be at peacefulness with your surroundings. Dive down to your inner core to draw on your deepest and truest aspirations in life. Ask yourself these questions:

a. What's my goal in life?

b. What occupies most of my time?

c. What do I love doing?

d. If I will get the chance 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 really do that animates me?

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

When you can answer these questions in all honesty then you'll find important signs that will help you define your passion in life. You will 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 case more clearly and answer these questions without bias.

Create a list of what you want to experience. Before you start your list, you should consider things that you've dreamed of 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 loved ones were 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 particular list though, you will need to include all that you have imagined doing without consideration of the factors that have hampered you from doing it in the past. Go over your list in case you might have missed out on something that had interests you in the past. Include all 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 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 experience at least ten of those which you have included in your list. Personally experiencing it'll give you a hint of what really interests you, what lights you up above all else. Passion is what makes a usually calm person talk animatedly in regards to a particular subject; about his passion in life. You can't ever know what drives or excites you most if you haven’t done a great deal 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 like to do for the rest of your life.

Try a new sport or take up a new hobby. You may not realize it yet because you haven’t attempted doing it or taking it up, however your passion could be winter sports or scuba diving. There are several sports which you can try on your own such as mountain biking, dancing, archery or jogging. You can also