When Your Best Isn't Good Enough: Breaking Free from Perfectionism

by Kevin Leman

Overview

Some people feel they don't measure up to anyone's expectations. As a result, they tend to procrastinate, set unrealistic goals, or continually try to please others. With the positive, no-nonsense strategies offered in When Your Best Isn't Good Enough, readers can raise their low self-perception and overcome these feelings of rejection and inadequacy.

Writing in his well-known, upbeat style, Dr. Kevin Leman helps those who struggle with self-doubt to value their talents and gifts and accept their shortcomings. He points out why the lifestyle we develop as a child determines our degree of success or failure and explains how, regardless of the past, each person can develop a healthy lifestyle today. Dr. Leman also shows readers how to apply these same principles in raising children with healthy self-esteem.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441202482
Publisher:	Baker Publishing Group
Publication date:	07/01/2007
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	465 KB

About the Author

Dr. Kevin Leman is an internationally known psychologist, humorist, and bestselling author. He is former consulting psychologist for Good Morning America and a frequent guest for The View, Today, The Early Show, and Focus on the Family. He and his wife, Sande, live in Tucson, Arizona. They have five children and four grandchildren.
Dr. Kevin Leman is an internationally known psychologist, radio and television personality, and speaker. Cohost of the extremely popular Have a New Kid by Friday podcast, he has made house calls through hundreds of radio and television programs, such as FOX & Friends, The View, FOX's The Morning Show, Today, Morning in America, The 700 Club, CBS's The Early Show, Janet Parshall, CNN, and Focus on the Family, and has served as a contributing family psychologist to Good Morning America. A bestselling and award-winning author, Dr. Leman has written more than 60 books, including The Birth Order Book and Have a New Kid by Friday. He is the founder of Leman Academy of Excellence, an award-winning group of classical charter schools located throughout Arizona and Colorado. Dr. Leman and his wife, Sande, live in Tucson, Arizona. They have five children and four grandchildren.

Table of Contents

Introduction 9

Part 1 Starting Out on the Wrong Foot

1 Why Can't I Measure Up? 13

2 What's This Thing Called Life-Style? 21

3 How the Pattern Begins: The Early Years 38

Part 2 Discovering Who You Really Are

4 The Critical Parent and You 91

5 The Problem with Guilt 120

6 Is It Time to Lower Your High-Jump Bar of Life? 148

7 Help and Healing for Your Broken Heart 196

Part 3 No Losers in the Game of Life

8 A Few People Who Didn't Measure Up 217

9 It's Great Being You! 230

Notes 245