Confident Me: With Confidence and Solid Self-Esteem

by Ivana Straska

Overview

This book helps people caught in the trap of low self-esteem and lacking confidence. It guides the reader to change negative thinking about self and enhance strengths and qualities. The reader learns to build confidence with restructuring of their thinking, assertiveness, mindfulness, compassion, visualization, and much more. Through thinking and writing, Straska guides the reader towards self-acceptance and acknowledging personal qualities. She provides comprehensive strategies to change the habits that erode self-esteem. The paperback provides space for the reader's writing and it includes QR codes to easily access additional free resources such as audio tracks, relaxation, meditation, visualization, diagrams and more. E-format of this book includes direct links to these resources.

The goals of the book:

• Recognize personal values.
• Apply techniques enforcing personal strengths.
• Enforce positive feelings about self.
• Acknowledge self-destructive habits.
• Learn strategies to banish self-defeating habits.
• Bring self-esteem in line with actions.
• Develop confidence through positive attitude.
• Learn to think and feel positively about self.
• Bring mindfulness into self-esteem.
• Learn techniques to change thinking errors.
• Understand how acceptance and compassion improve self-esteem.

Solid self-esteem is not tangible but is something that people need to smoothly move through life and do it with joy. Self-esteem is a core psychological asset allowing the utilization of skills and potential. It is a personal concept of values, feelings and actions. The good thing about self-esteem is that nobody is born with low or high esteem. Almost anyone can build a solid self-esteem.

Through life experience, people learn to think and feel someway about themselves. In self-reflection, they assess behaviour, feelings and compare them with their values. Self-esteem evolves from moment to moment by valuations and actions. The problems with self-esteem rise from what people validate and believe. Based on their beliefs, they compare themselves, and when they aren’t the person they wish to be, their self-esteem goes down. To have a solid self-esteem, people have to assess personal actions in harmony with their values.

Whether someone has solid self-esteem depends on whether they live their values, whatever these values might be. When a self-esteem concept is built upon good values, people are able to grow good feelings towards themselves. Along with good values, mindfully developed self-esteem aids to remove underlined fears and conflicts. Solid self-esteem works as psychological immunity. It protects an individual’s strengths and allows personal adequacy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781999826659
Publisher:	Ivana International
Publication date:	05/13/2018
Pages:	146
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x 0.31(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction

Check Your Self-Esteem (questionnaire)

1 Addressing Your Beliefs

1.1 Thoughts Are Only Thoughts

1.2 Beliefs Are Thoughts

2 Finding Your Self Worth

2.1 Self-Worthiness

2.2 Wise Focus

3 Giving Your Self Credit

3.1 Interpretation of Failing

3.2 Creating Positive Self-Image

3.3 Negative Experience

4 Recognizing Destructive Thoughts

4.1 Acknowledge Your Qualities

4.2 The Positive Mind

5 Self-Love

5.1 Personal Privileges

5.2 Small Dose of Narcissism

5.3 Demonstration of Qualities

6 Importance of Self-Expression

6.1 Assertive Expression

6.2 Impact of Body Language

6.3 Healthy Relationships

7 Good Qualities

7.1 Self-Compassion

7.2 Shifting Your Fixation

7.3 Therapeutic Focus

8 Continue Building

8.1 Through Thoughts and Feelings

8.2 Being Non-Judgemental

9 Learning New Strategies

9.1 Using Visualization

9.2 Mindfulness to Raise Self-Esteem

10 Cherish Qualities

10.1 Towards Self-Acceptance

10.2 Growing Confidence

11 Decisions Affect Self-Esteem

11.1 Know the Principles

11.2 Balancing Your Decisions

11.3 Areas of Happiness

12 Maintain the Positive Mindset

12.1 Remember Mindfulness

12.2 Remain Strategic

13 Sum it Up

13.1 Back to Self-Assessment

13.2 Don’t Forget

About the Author

Editorial Reviews

“This is an exciting alternative to the usual approach of building self-esteem, eminently practical and readable."

"A carefully constructed book taking the reader on a journey of building self-esteem based on personal strengths."

"Straska explains how people can work with themselves as they are. It is simple and effective groundwork, emerging from individual uniqueness rather than aggressively trying to change self.”

"Through thinking and writing, Straska guides the reader towards self-acceptance and becoming more confident while mindfully creating a positive self-image."

"It tackles low self-esteem while utilizing the benefits of handwriting in a unique, concise and convenient format."

“The key principles of mindfulness detailed here are also incorporated into acceptance and value-based esteem. Mindfulness is applied in an entirely practical way undertaken by the reader as part of their routine.”

“The self is a component of an individual, it is just one of the many parts that make us human, and make each of us whole. We are aware of physical parts because we see, feel, or in the case of internal organs we consciously acknowledge their existence. Yet the self is ethereal, we can think about it yet we rarely stop to acknowledge it.”

“Straska creatively presents techniques that anyone can use to undermine struggles. She makes the reader explore how they might be trapped in self-defeating choices. She powerfully shows them another way forwards.”

“Neglect the self and we suffer. We find it difficult to be happy. We might struggle to thrive. Self-esteem is a core psychological asset allowing the utilization of skills and potential. The good thing is that nobody is born with low or high esteem. As it is shown in this book, almost anyone can build a solid self-esteem.”

" When people love themselves, they make a better life. They create happier relationships when feeling loved and supported, and being able to offer love and support in return. They easily adjust or find a fulfilling career. Someone with solid self-esteem experiences good feelings. They believe they are worthy of love, appreciation, happiness and success. They can recognize their good qualities and generally strive for a happy and successful life. This is the right book."

"In the mind and self, be the strongest you."

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