Review: You are how you view your combined personality, capabilities, skills, body, mind and personal power.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 29, 2014
Author/psychologist Jill Ammon-Wexler is a respected brain/mind researcher and doctor of positive psychology. In addition to spending over 45 years mentoring people of varied backgrounds from around the world she has also written numerous books, of which this is a very brief but pointed example.Dr. Jill starts her book about believing in yourself by examining self image and how that has been constructed. That self image may just need to remodeled and this book discusses how to go about that very necessary task in order to find the you you can believe in. Her ideas and steps are sound: Start with the realization that you CAN re-create your self-image, and can build and strengthen virtually any aspect of your being or area of your life; Recognize and embrace the importance of improving your self-confidence as something you can right now; Focus on building stronger and stronger self-confidence every day to build new neural pathways (embrace change); Create a daily habit of rededicating yourself to creating the self-concept and life you desire; Take control and lift yourself up. Think smarter!;Install and use anchors that you can "fire off" whenever you need a shot of confidence; Pay closer attention to what you're saying to yourself about you; Go back to an incident, identify your resulting personal strengths, then build self-confidence and a sense of personal power from your achievement; Embrace the power of taking action to create change in your life or your situation to build self-confidence.These are just a few of the seeds Dr Jill plants in our minds; some of them may seem obvious, but then be truthful with yourself and read this book (it is short) several times and you will discover a lot of secrets previously hidden or unacknowledged. This is more than a self-help book. It is an inspiration to take charge of making your life what you want it to be - because you actually believe in yourself, perhaps for the first time. Grady Harp, March 14