Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 155.232
EAN: 9780312904432
ISBN: 0312904436
Label: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 373
Publication Date: 1987-12-15
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Studio: St. Martin's Paperbacks

Are you your own worst enemy?
Are youd evastated by criticism? Do you have trouble your loved ones what you really need? If you said yes, you're a victim of low self-esteem.

Learn to be your own best friend!
This easy, step-by-step program can start changing that today! You can radically improve the way you feel about yourself and discover an attractive, confident, and happier you.

Discover:
simple exercises to focus on your good points
how to combat your critical inner voice
techniques to stop your" shoulds"--those damaging rules about how you "should" be
effective ways to deal with criticism

Customer Rating:
Summary: very good book about cognitive techniques and who they can help
Comment: Great book to get to know cognitive techniques and the personality types that they can help.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: An instructive guide on enhancing self-esteem
Comment: Each individual manifests self-esteem, or the lack of it, differently. Generally, people with strong self-esteem had parents who nurtured them constantly during their early childhood, while those with low self-esteem often did not. Can people with low self-esteem build it as adults? Yes, because self-esteem is how you feel about yourself, and your thoughts control your feelings. If you take command of your thoughts, you can take command of your feelings, including your sense of self. In this fine book on self-esteem, Matthew McKay and Patrick Fanning show you how to banish regressive "stinking thinking" and the nasty inner critic that inevitably tries to flatten your self-esteem. You can use their instructive "cognitive techniques" to elevate your self-esteem, develop self-assurance and feel better about yourself. getAbstract finds McKay and Fanning's book warm and practical. If their self-esteem is high, there's a good reason.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Read Self-Esteem- It's Worth It
Comment: Who's the book for? Anyone who wants to improve their self-esteem.

What's the goal of the book? To improve your self-esteem.

How does it do this? By showing you how to disarm your "inner critic", you know, that negative inner voice that attacks and judges you. Everyone has one, and people with low self-esteem tend to have a more vicious inner critic.

Is it easy to read? Yes, the book is laid out well and written in a very friendly tone. The first three chapters cover the most important and universally applicable information. After finishing them, there is a chart for you to look at. It will direct you to the appropriate chapter(s) that deal with your specific problems. Neat!

You don't have to read the book cover-to-cover unless you just need general info- but that's what's good about it; you can use the book to fit your individual needs. With over 600,000 copies sold, it must have helped a few people! Other self-help books I liked include Finding Happiness in a Frustrating World. Good luck!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Book
Comment: You'll see results from this book if you stick to it. Go through the chapters slowly and take time to follow the suggestions - I've found them quite helpful! This is one of the best self-esteem books I've seen.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: How to Cope With Stress
Comment: This work provides practical strategies on how to
identify both constructive and non-constructive
criticisms . People need motivation.
As such, considerable things are achieved
when we have the requisite drive.

The critic tends to serve
our guilt with a heaping of criticism. The authors
provide strategies to anticipate the criticism and
deal with it constructively. According to the authors,
we should seek to unmask the criticism to divine its
purpose. In some ways, critics serve us by solving
the fear of failure. Some say that you cannot do
things. Occasionally, they are proven wrong.

Monitoring the critic will help us sort out the
non-constructive criticism from criticism that
helps to make us better people in every aspect.
According to the author, we should look at the rule
structures which are at the heart of our
critics. Are the rules relevant, fair or topical ?
If they aren't, we have a basis to view the
criticism with skepticism.

The authors also remind us to view ourselves
dispassionately. Try to determine how others see you.
Sometimes, your physical appearance or demeanor are
important. How do you relate to other people?

To get answers to these questions, we must learn to
listen in order to receive quality input. The authors
provide a wealth of very pertinent information helpful
in strengthening every aspect of inter-personnel
relations with a plethora of people around us.
i.e. mentors, peers, friends, relevant others etc.

The book is worth the purchase price for the
significant value of the information contained within.

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