Do you lack confidence and never feel really happy? Do you wish you could stop judging yourself all the time and get on with your life? If so, this book will teach you simple techniques to boost your self-esteem and bring lasting results. By starting your own self-esteem journal, you can not only understand more about yourself, but learn how to give yourself the compassion, respect, acceptance and support you deserve. There are 45 stimulating exercises which invite you to explore how you truly feel about your life and examine the behaviours and beliefs that may be holding you back. Topics include: how to identify distorted self-beliefs; challenging your inner critical voice; ways to break the cycle of low self-esteem; how to turn worrying into problem-solving; sure-fire ways to get back in control By writing about your feelings, thoughts and experiences, you can open up a whole new relationship with yourself.

We all love comfort - but, psychologically, it can be a real trap, holding you back and keeping you stuck in dead-end situations. Using the principles of Rational Emotive Therapy, this book helps people deal with discomfort in life, with advice on how to get things done, achieve goals and overcome inertia. The book covers the problems of those who take a masochistic approach to life's frustrations, and those who use "quick fixes" such as alcohol and drugs. It discusses how to overcome emotional problems which can result when things don't go to plan, such as anger, depression and self-pity. Topics include: The many faces of the comfort trap dealing with urges and feelings of deprivation tolerating unpleasant feelings dealing with impatience and boredom overcoming procrastination developing persistence dealing with the discomfort of change

Everyone feels socially awkward at times, but for some people shyness can become an overwhelming problem, limiting social and career opportunities, and severely restricting life goals. Rooted in cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) techniques, Coping Successfully with Shyness is packed full of advice on what to do if you feel disempowered or embarrassed. It looks at how to understand and manage those feelings of discomfort, and how to rebuild confidence in a lasting way.

Circumstances do not make a person; they reveal a person. You are likely to face many challenges and obstacles on your road to success. After following the principles outlined in this book you will focus on the solutions to overcome those issues rather than blaming your circumstances. This will set you apart from others. People who fail to achieve what they want to tend to avoid taking responsibility. They blame the past, the challenges they've had, society and situational factors. This is not you. Your circumstances are what they are. What has happened in your past has happened; and these are facts that cannot change. However, starting today you can change the future, if you want to. In this book you will find it does not matter what your background or education consists of, or your sex, creed or ethnicity. I use a number of examples of real life people throughout, to illustrate that success is all down to principles such as focus, attitude, persistence, hard work and the belief we have in ourselves. You will find these principles and others used inside this book, which will help drive you toward your own model of success, whatever that might be. The amazing thing is that there are no secrets, no 'golden bullet'. In fact, the answers you have been searching for are a lot closer to you than you realise, they are well within your reach. Why? Because the road to your success all starts with a thought process and a decision to take massive action, to move forward to where you want to be in life. the purpose of this book is to offer inspiration and insights that will be useful to you along your prosperous journey, so enjoy the journey!

Congratulations. You have picked up a source of valuable information that is able to change your life. This book is based on a true story on how Paul Errands aged 17 at the time of writing this book transformed his life of being bullied with very little self-esteem to finding it within him to find self-love and respect towards himself. Paul now loves life and through the powers of affirmations, he managed to change his life around and loves his new life. This book is aimed at all ages to be able to develop self-love and respect towards themselves.

From Mel Robbins, #1 podcast host, best-selling author and expert on change and motivation.

In her global phenomenon The 5 Second Rule, Mel Robbins taught millions the five second secret to motivation. Now she's back with another simple, proven science-backed tool you can use to take control of your life: The High 5 Habit.

Don't let the title fool you. This isn't a book about high fiving everyone else in your life. You're already doing that. Cheering for your favorite teams. Celebrating your friends. Supporting the people you love as they go after what they want in life.

Imagine if you gave that same love and encouragement to yourself. Or even better, you made it a daily habit.

You'd be unstoppable.

In this encouraging book, Mel teaches you how to start high fiving the most important person in your life, the one who is staring back at you in the mirror: YOURSELF.

If you are:

• · Struggling with self-doubt (and who doesn't?) …
• · Tired of that nagging critic in your head (could somebody evict them already?) …
• · Successful but all you focus on is what's going wrong (you're not alone) …
• · Sick of watching everybody else get ahead while you sit on the couch with your dog (don't bring your dog into this) …

...Mel dedicates this book to you.

Chapters Include:

• You Deserve a High 5 Life
• Science Says This Works
• I Have a Few Questions...
• Why Do I Torture Myself?
• Am I Broken?
• Where's All This Negative Crap Coming From?
• Why Am I Suddenly Seeing Hearts Everywhere?
• Why Is Life So Easy for Them and Not Me?
• Isn’t It Easier If I Say Nothing?
• How About I Start . . . Tomorrow?
• But Do You Like Me?
• How Come I Screw Everything Up?
• Can I Actually Handle This?
• Okay, You May Not Want to Read This Chapter
• Eventually, It Will All Make Sense

It's time to give yourself the high fives, celebration, and support you deserve.

With this book, you'll learn how to:

• · Use the High 5 Habit to overcome negative self-talk and limiting beliefs
• · Create a clear vision for your life and set goals that align with your values
• · Take consistent action towards your goals, even when you don't feel like it
• · Develop a mindset of resilience and perseverance
• · Achieve more success and happiness in all areas of your life

“When I stopped trashing myself and started giving my reflection a high five instead, it was more than an encouraging gesture on a low day. It flipped that self-criticism and self-hatred on its head. It changed the lens through which I viewed my life.

That was the beginning of a massive shift in my life. A line in the sand. The beginning of a brand-new connection to the most important person in my life—myself.

A new way of thinking about myself and about what was possible for me. It inspired me to create an entirely new way of experiencing life. That’s why I wrote this book.

It’s time to cheer for YOU.”

Love,
Mel Robbins

Using her signature science-backed wisdom, deeply personal stories, and the real-life results that The High 5 Habit is creating in people's lives around the world, Mel will teach you how to make believing in yourself a habit so that you have more confidence, transform your mindset, and achieve your dreams.

Life's challenges range from redundancy, relationship break-up and illness, to other people's disapproval, rejection and betrayal. You may initially respond to such events with shaken identity and insecurity, but that doesn't have to be the end of the story. Using techniques based on Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), this helpful book looks at how to surmount difficult but common adversities so that you can move on. Topics include; facing up to inherited tendencies and personal limitations, identifying and dealing with areas where you are not in control, living with uncertainty and loss, coping with job lodd, making healthy choices in relationships, dealing with failures, dealing with unfairness and injustice. Professor Windy Dryden says that while even the luckiest of us must sometimes face advertisity, we can learn to deal with difficult situations so that wan can go on living as healthily as we can.