Stop Negative Thinking: Master Self-Esteem, Beat Negative Thoughts, Achieve Personal Goals & Change Your Life

By Dr. Michael Ericsson

Stop Negative Thinking: Master Self-Esteem, Beat Negative Thoughts, Achieve Personal Goals & Change Your Life

If you want to Develop Self-Confidence, Overcome Fear & Stress, Develop Good Habits & Feel The True Freedom, then this is your book!

This book consists of great steps and strategies on how to solve self esteem issues, like feelings of being not good enough, of being inferior, and of being unworthy.

What are you waiting for? Kick off your bad habits now and start learning how to control and change yourself—for the better.

What You'll Learn in Stop Negative Thinking: Master Self-Esteem, Beat Negative Thoughts, Achieve Personal Goals & Change Your Life...

How to Become a Minimalist and Declutter Your Life
How to Get Rid of Procrastination
How to Increase Your Body Language
How to Increase Your Self-Confidence
How to Get Rid of Stress, Relax Your Mind and Achieve Happiness
How to Increase Your Self-Esteem
How to Boost Your Charisma
How to Increase Your Emotional Intelligence

What You'll Also Discover Inside...

Expect more from yourself than others. The good news - everybody 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: note down every thought while you are lacking of self-confidence. Every time you start worrying, do a two-minute break. Take the list and remind yourself how great you are. Show to your brain the material proof of your self-confidence.

Surround yourself with positive people. The more you surround yourself with positive and confident people in all areas of your life the more you will begin to feel the same. The very interaction with confidence motivates you to feel the same, it is contagious. The same goes for negativity. So, take a look at the people in your life and reflect on their net input regarding confidence in your life. Real friends help you be more of yourself as far as it is concerned.

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 improve emotional intelligence and self-confidence in both your work and personal life.  

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 the things you have learned in action and begin to change your life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dr. Michael Ericsson
• Release date: Aug 27, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386547655

Book preview

Chapter 1 –  How to Wake Up Early, Energized and Motivated Everyday 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 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 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 resources you ought to have:

Say a Prayer

Prayer is the best 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 phrases. 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 a genuine heart and surely you will be heard!

Exercise

Once you’re finished exercising 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 generates 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 should have a breakfast every 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 removes all that stress in you and replaces it with a secured 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 beat. Music helps relax your mind and helps you feel good about your day. It motivates 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 other people.

Meditate

Meditation is a way for you to master 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.

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 Discover Your Passion

If you have already uncovered your talent, then it's time to discover your passion in this world. Passion is a solid feeling of excitement for something or about doing something. Unlike talent, passion can be shared. Therefore, individuals who have different talents can have the same passion. While those individuals who share the same interests, do not automatically have the same skills. An individual can be passionate about his talent but also with other things in his life. However, someone's talent cannot be automatically his passion. If your passion is your talent, you should have more chance of achieving your goals. There would be less stress and inconvenience. Doing something that is already second nature to you and adoring every minute of it would likely motivate you to have success than achieving something difficult and uninspiring.

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

Meditate. Passion is a driving force. It is unseen when it's not propelling something forward, such as talent. Hence, passion can be more difficult to see than talent. You may have several innate skills 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 dreams into passion or just short-term obsession. You have to think from your internal core. To have the ability to access your internal core, you need to meditate. Find a place where you will be still and be at peace 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 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 payment 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?

If you can answer these questions in all honesty then you'll find important clues 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 are in touch with this self, you'd be able to perceive the situation more clearly and answer these questions without bias.

Make a list of what you want to do. Before you start your list, you should consider things which you have imagined 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. To make this particular list though, you need to include all those things you have imagined doing without thought of the factors which have hampered you from doing it before. Look over your list in case you might have missed out on something that had interests you before. Include everything you have imagined doing even though you think it's highly impractical, dangerous or bold. Maybe it's not really your passion but who knows? While doing it, you might suddenly realize your true passion in life, that something which ignites a raging fire 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 which you have included in your list. Personally experiencing it will give you an inkling of what really interests you, what lights you up more than anything 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 have not done a whole lot of interesting things in your life. Have a firsthand experience of the probable things that could get your adrenalin going. Have a shot and who knows? You might discover just what it is that you would love to do