365 Steps to Self-confidence by David Lawrence Preston - Synopsis

Confidence is crucial to a happy and fulfilling life. It influences your success at work, your family life, relationships and leisure activities. It affects your performance in everything you do. A belief in oneself is without doubt the greatest asset of all. Even great wealth and fame can not compensate for a poor self image. 

People who lack confidence and self-belief always underachieve. They’re less adventurous and less likely to get the most out of life. They’re more prone to a variety of stress-related problems, including anxiety, eating disorders and mental health problems. Low self-esteem is the fundamental cause of most family breakups, poor parenting and relationship problems. In addition, much crime is associated with drug abuse, unemployment, poverty and aimlessness, all of which are related to low self-esteem.

365 Steps to Self-confidence offers you to get real experiences on increasing your self-confidences that be covered in 224 pages only. This book was written by David Lawrence Preston for everyone - young and old, men, women, students, educators, business people, administrators, parents, homemakers, sports enthusiasts, entertainers and anyone. You will be offered 52 sections, covering the following areas:

■ Deciding to be confident

■ Self-awareness

■ Thinking confidently

■ Using your imagination to improve self-image

■ Acting with confidence

■ Confident communication.

Each section contains information, insights and words of inspiration, plus seven exercises, practical hints or points to ponder. That’s one a day. So, It won't too heavy for us.

As an example from one of the exercises in the book, like this one below ( Preston, 2007 : 15 )

First of all, you will need a note to write all of the exercises while you are reading the book. After that, here the exercise 

I am going to give you an example answer of mine. These all may be the differences that would happen in my life if I knew without any doubt that I could achieve anything I set my heart on:

1. I could have applied myself to a music audition.

2. I could have been a singer.

3. I could have answered every questions of my teachers or lectures.

4. I could have had my own English school.

5. I could have been a college of one of the best universities in my country.

6. I could have told a guy who I loved that I love him without any doubt and I should have been his girlfriend (no judge, please lol).

Alright. All of those might be happening now If I am more confident, at least that is what I think.

I guarantee that if you read the material carefully and apply what you learn, you’ll notice big changes taking place within two or three months, and a year from now you’ll look back amazed at how much more confident you’ve become.

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