You Only Live Once Develop Self-Confidence, Eliminate Negative Thoughts, Find Your Passion & Become a Great Leader

By Dr. Michael Ericsson

You Only Live Once Develop Self-Confidence, Eliminate Negative Thoughts, Find Your Passion & Become a Great Leader

If you want to Build Self-Confidence, Stop Depression & Self Doubt, Develop Leadership Skills & Get More Friends, then this is your book!

This book consists of proven steps and strategies on how to be productive and to be successful with your day to day life.

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

What You'll Learn in You Only Live Once Develop Self-Confidence, Eliminate Negative Thoughts, Find Your Passion & Become a Great Leader...

How to Become a Minimalist and Declutter Your Life
How to Get Rid of Procrastination Forever
How to Achieve Your Goals
How to Boost Your Self-Confidence
How to Reduce Stress, Relax Your Mind and Achieve Happiness
How to Develop Your Self-Esteem
How to Develop Leadership Skills
How to Improve Your Emotional Intelligence

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 sight in a wrong way. Any weird reaction and you start worrying without any reason. Psychologists recommend listening to your "inner voice". Try this experiment: note 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 good you are. Show to your mind 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 can really do wonders. Aside from that, once you think positively, you will notice 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.

Take care of your health. If you feel good, you can achieve a lot. Regular exercises build physical strength, perseverance and boost 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 learn where to start in trying to pursue your passion.  

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 follow the strategies and tips detailed in this book and change your life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dr. Michael Ericsson
• Release date: Aug 28, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386238898

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 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 an entrepreneur 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 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 greatest 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 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 an open 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 feel great about yourself and start to build your confidence. 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 miss 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 concentrated 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 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 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 takes away 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 dose of happiness is listening to your favorite song. Music helps calm 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 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 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 other people.

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 great 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 strong feeling of enthusiasm for something or about doing something. Unlike talent, passion can be shared. Therefore, people who have different skills can have the same passion. While those individuals who share the same passion, do not automatically have the same skills. A person can be interested in his talent but also with other activities in his life. However, someone's talent can't be automatically his passion. If your passion is your talent, you should have more potential for achieving your goals. There would be less stress and inconvenience. Doing something that is already second nature to you and loving every minute of it would likely motivate you to have success than completing something difficult and uninspiring.

So what are the ways to exploring 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 ascertain than talent. You might have several inner talents such as writing, singing and running. 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 momentary obsession. You have to think from your internal core. To have the ability to access your inner core, you 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 objective in life?

b. What takes up the majority of my time?

c. What do I really like 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 except for what I am doing?

When you can answer these questions in all honesty then you'll discover important signs that will help you define your passion in life. You will 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'd be able to understand the situation more clearly and answer these questions without bias.

Make a list of what you wish to do. Before you start your list, you should consider things which you have 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 lack 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 will need to include everything you have dreamed of doing without awareness of the factors that have hampered you from doing it before. Go 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 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 more than anything else. Passion is what makes a usually silent person talk animatedly about 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 lot of interesting things in your life. Have a firsthand experience of the possible things that would make your adrenalin going. Have a shot and who knows? You might realize just what it is that you would wish to do for the rest of your life.

Exceed 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 been able to try anything new which is out