Now That the Candy's Gone: Mastering the Art of Self-Confidence

by Caterina Perry

Overview

Are you in a place in your life that no longer fulfills you?
Do you wish you had the courage to take the next step in your professional career?
Are you not pursuing your dream job because you think you're not qualified enough?

Now That the Candy's Gone provides techniques to help you overcome feelings of Imposter Syndrome, improve your self-esteem, and prepare you for the next phase in your professional and personal journey.

What began as a journal to help Perry process challenging experiences in her life and career has evolved into a reflective memoir and how-to guide to empower others to go from surviving to thriving. Caterina Perry delves into the limiting beliefs that women frequently face in their lives and shares key strategies to develop an area overlooked: emotional intelligence. Honest, bold, and vulnerable, this book is for anyone wanting to take the next step to achieve their dreams. Are you ready?

The book includes a live FREE twelve-week book study facilitated personally by Caterina Perry.

Readers can register online at www.nowthatthecandysgone.com.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781039146716
Publisher:	FriesenPress
Publication date:	11/03/2022
Pages:	204
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.47(d)

About the Author

Caterina Perry is a successful leader with over twenty-five years of experience. As a leadership coach and career strategist, she mentors clients in developing their emotional intelligence, personalities, success, and career to help them live their best lives. She has studied with renowned author and contributor to The Secret, Bob Proctor, and leadership expert Robin Sharma. Now That the Candy's Gone is her first book.

You can connect with her by visiting her website: www.nowthatthecandysgone.com.

She lives in Ottawa, Ontario with her husband Michael and their German Shepherd Max.

Editorial Reviews

2022-12-06
A guide focuses on developing self-confidence and overcoming doubts.

Perry starts off her book about tapping into hidden potentials and finding new possibilities by grounding such things in an unexpectedly prosaic bit of common history that readers share. “During the COVID-19 pandemic, we discovered that things that we thought were not possible: working remotely, virtual doctors’ appointments, getting a vaccine approved in record time, etc., were possible,” she writes. “If we were wrong about that, what else are we wrong about?” People are conditioned by society, teachers, and even parents to see limits instead of possibilities, she contends, but her main focus is on one other key element: ourselves. Quoting various historical and motivational figures (like Henry Ford: “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you are right”), Perry examines a phenomenon that the philosopher and psychologist William James referred to as “neuro plasticity,” the way the human brain changes as a result of repetitive experiences. She maps this onto her own behavior: “Open to the possibility that I could do things that I didn’t believe were possible, I tried to consciously stop saying ‘I can’t.’ ” She illustrates her chapters with vivid anecdotes from her military experience, photographs from her life, and copious pull quotes. This strongly upbeat tone runs throughout the book and will be bracing for readers who may be feeling fenced in. Likewise, her belief in a “higher power” who presents people with various opportunities in life will resonate with many readers. Her flat declaration that “I don’t believe in pre-defined fate” meshes well with her fervent, if derivative, conviction that the past does not determine the future. (There are few sentiments here that can’t be found in many motivational books.) “Where you go from here,” she writes, “is not bound by where you have come.”

A familiar but appealingly passionate call to rise above personal limitations.

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