The Power of Self-Confidence: Become Unstoppable, Irresistible, and Unafraid in Every Area of Your Life pdfdrive com

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• Contents
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: The Foundation of Self-Confidence
  • You Become What You Think About
  • Personal Growth is Not Easy
  • Your Inner Life Predicts Your Outer Life
  • Start with Your Inner Life
  • Determine Your Values
  • Values in Business
  • Clarify Your Personal Values
  • Values are Nonnegotiable
  • Values Clarification
  • Organize Your Values
  • Order of Values Forces You to Choose
  • Integrity Revisited
  • Set Peace of Mind as Your Highest Principle
  • Your Values are Only Expressed in Your Actions
  • The Law of Reversibility
  • The Act-As-If Principle
  • The Principle of Resistance
  • Developing Inner Strength
• Chapter 2: Purpose and Personal Power
  • The Law of Indirect Effort
  • Become More Confident and Competent
  • Thought is Creative
  • The Law of Attraction
  • The Law of Correspondence
  • The Law of Concentration
  • The Law of Substitution
  • The Law of Emotion
  • The Power of Decision
  • The Importance of Goals
  • The Master Skill of Success
  • Remarkable Success Stories
  • Fear Holds You Back
  • The Comfort Zone
  • Resistance to Change
  • The Attainment of Personal Greatness
  • Imagine No Limitations
  • Categorize Your Goals
  • Organize Your Goals
  • Focus and Concentrate
  • Make It Measurable and Bound by Time
  • Make Your Plans
  • A Simple Technique
• Chapter 3: Achieving Competence and Personal Mastery
  • The Edge of the Envelope
  • Expand Your Envelope
  • Self-Confidence and Self-Esteem
  • Build Your Own Self-Confidence
  • Achieving Peak Performance
  • Getting Into the Flow Experience
  • Find Your True Place
  • Grandma Moses
  • Follow Your Heart
  • Courage and Confidence are Essential
  • The Four Quadrants of Work
  • Examine Your Work History
  • Design Your Ideal Work Life
  • Maximize Your Return on Energy
  • Do What You Love
  • Two Questions to Test Job Suitability
  • Commit to Excellence
  • Excellence is Learnable
  • The Law of Accumulation
  • The Law of Incremental Improvement
  • Pattern Recognition
  • The Grand Masters
  • The Foundation of Self-Confidence
  • Moving to the Top
  • Identify Your Key Skills
  • Analyze Your Skill Levels
  • Deliberate Practice
  • Identify Your Key Skill
  • All Skills are Learnable
  • Your Most Valuable Financial Asset
• Chapter 4: The Inner Game of Self-Confidence
  • The Law of Belief
  • The Power of Belief
  • The $500,000 Check
  • The Man on the Bridge
  • First Convince Yourself
  • The Power of Suggestion
  • Control Your Suggestive Environment
  • Control Your Emotions
  • Think Before You React
  • The Power of Self-Suggestion
  • Make Self-Control into a Game
  • The Power of Autosuggestion
  • A Quick Review
  • Take Charge of Your Life
  • Actions Have Consequences
  • Problems versus Facts
  • Accepting Responsibility is the Beginning
  • Control Your Thoughts
  • Positive Self-Talk
  • Your Interpretive Style
  • Practice Positive Expectations
  • Talk to Yourself Positively
  • Control Your Thoughts and Feelings
  • Unlimited Potential
  • Written Affirmations
  • Practice Visualization
  • Mental Rehearsal
  • Improve Your Mental Pictures
  • Get Your Dream House
  • The End of the Movie
  • Feed Your Mind
  • Get Around Positive People
  • Attract Positive People into Your Life
  • Everything Counts
  • Take Action Continually
• Chapter 5: Capitalizing on Your Strengths
  • Your Area of Excellence
  • Choose the Right Field
  • Happiness and Satisfaction
  • Living Congruently
  • Courage is Essential
  • Follow Your Heart
  • Be Honest with Yourself
  • Compensating for Weaknesses
  • Developing Strength and Resiliency
  • You are a Bundle of Resources
  • Assess Your Strengths and Weaknesses
  • Increase Your Return on Energy
  • Differentiate Yourself
  • You are the President of You, Inc.
  • Join the Top 3 Percent
  • Designing Your Future
  • Find Out What You are Meant to Do
  • Be Prepared to Develop New Skills
  • Be Aware of Yourself
  • Invest in Yourself
  • Self-Analysis and Self-Disclosure
  • List All Your Current Skills and Capabilities
  • Cluster Your Roles and Activities
  • Set Priorities on Your Roles
  • Ask for Input from Others
  • An Important Insight
  • Determine What Motivates You
  • Make a Real Difference
  • Accept Your Weaknesses
  • Sales versus Management
  • Situational Weaknesses
  • You May Be Hypersensitive
  • Amenable to Education
  • Weaknesses are Good Indicators
  • Strengths and Weaknesses
• Chapter 6: Triumphing over Adversity
  • Persistence is Essential
  • The Reality Habit
  • The Test of Character
  • Play Well on the Team
  • Crisis Management
  • Reversals of Fortune
  • The Challenge-Response Theory
  • Deal with the Challenge Effectively
  • All Civilizations Eventually Decline
  • The Story of Your Life
  • The Rise and Fall of a Business
  • Your Responses Determine Your Future
  • Problems and Difficulties Come Unbidden
  • Adversity and Character Development
  • Your Response-Ability is the Key
  • Responding Well to Disappointment
  • Crisis Anticipation
  • Advance Thinking and Planning
  • The Concept of Failure
  • Double Your Rate of Failure
  • Our Greatest Inventor
  • Success is a Numbers Game
  • Learn from Every Failure
  • Plan for the Future
  • Spread the Risk
  • What Could Go Wrong?
  • Become Intensely Solution Oriented
  • Never Consider the Possibility of Failure
  • Courage and Persistence
• Chapter 7: Self-Confidence In Action
  • Self-Confidence is Critical
  • Try More Things
  • An Inauspicious Beginning
  • Early Behavior Problems
  • Failure from the Beginning
  • Laboring Jobs
  • Selling from Door to Door
  • The Big Question
  • The Big Turning Point
  • The Importance of Goals
  • Three Great Ideas
  • We Sabotage Ourselves
  • You Can Develop Any Quality
  • The Secret of Success
  • The Four Ds of Success and Self-Confidence
  • Positive Knowing versus Positive Thinking
  • The Gallup Success Survey
  • Five Essential Success Qualities
  • Be Good at What You Do
  • Self-Reliance
  • Intelligence is More Than IQ
  • Income and IQ
  • How is Intelligence Defined?
  • Intelligence Defined
  • Make Your Actions Congruent
  • Avoid Self-Delusion
  • Getting the Job Done
  • Get Onto the Fast Track
  • Do What the Top People Do
  • Plan Your Work and Work Your Plan
  • Do Your Work Quickly and Well
  • Dedicate Yourself to Continuous Learning
  • Take Continuous Forward Action
  • Be Your Own Cheerleader
  • Control Your Mental Pictures
  • Develop Discipline and Courage
  • Take Excellent Care of Yourself
  • Speak Up with Confidence and Clarity
  • Practice No-Limit Thinking
• About the Author
• Brian Tracy: Speaker-Author-Consultant
• Index