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

by Kevin Leman

Overview

Are you an expert at finding flaws within yourself? Do you tend to procrastinate, set unrealistic goals, or continually try to please others? Writing in his warm and direct style, Dr. Kevin Leman shows you how to value your talents and gifts and accept your shortcomings. He shows how the way we develop as a child determines our degree of success or failure as an adult and explains how, regardless of the past, each person can develop a healthy lifestyle today. Dr. Leman also shows you how to apply these same principles in raising children with healthy self-esteem. If you want to make a positive change in your life, this is the place to start.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780800735296
Publisher:	Baker Publishing Group
Publication date:	06/18/2019
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	699,995
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Dr. Kevin Leman is an internationally known psychologist, New York Times bestselling author, radio and television personality, educator, humorist, and speaker who has written more than 60 books, including The Birth Order Book, Making Children Mind without Losing Yours, and Have a New Kid by Friday. 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