SelfGrowth.com: 7 Tips to Improve Confidence & Overcoming Tough Times

 [SelfGrowth.com](  Self Improvement Newsletter Improve Your Life Today!  2/20/17 issue:  7 Tips to Improve Confidence & Overcoming Tough Times Email for: {EMAIL} * Self Improvement and Personal Growth Weekly Newsletter * Issue #954, Week of February 20-21, 2017 Publisher: David Riklan - []( In this issue: -- Quotes of the Week -- Article: 7 Helpful Tips To Immediately Increase Your Confidence - by Kent Sayre -- Article: Tough Times Never Last But Tough People Do (Overcoming Obstacles, Adversities And Discouragement) - by Rick Gettle -- Book Review: Thinking, Fast and Slow - by Daniel Kahneman -- How to Advertise in the Self Improvement Newsletter -- How to Subscribe and Unsubscribe from this Newsletter ------------------------------------------------------------ *** Quotes of the Week *** ------------------------------------------------------------ Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.- John Dewey There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. -Indira Gandhi Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ------------------------------------------------------------ *** ARTICLE: 7 Helpful Tips To Immediately Increase Your Confidence - by Kent Sayre *** ------------------------------------------------------------ 1) Ask yourself, “What’s the worst that could happen?” Too often, we place excess importance on potential problems. We all have a certain amount of energy so let’s apply it to creating extraordinary relationships, advancing our careers and meeting our goals INSTEAD of wasting that energy worrying. Take action on what you have control over and minimize risks for what you don’t. Then invest your energy wisely. 2) In doing something for the first time, imagine that you have already done it in the past. Close your eyes, then vividly imagine you succeeding wildly at what you are really going to do for the first time. The mind does NOT know the difference between something VIVIDLY imagined and something real. Make it vivid by involving all 5 senses. 3) Find someone who is already confident in that area and copy them. Model as many of their behaviors, attitudes, values, and beliefs for the context you want to be confident in as you can. How can you do this? Talk with them if you have access to them. If you don’t have access to them, get as much exposure to them as you can. This could be talking to people who know the person and/or buying their products if they have some. ** To read the full article, [go here.]( ------------------------------------------------------------ *** ARTICLE: Tough Times Never Last But Tough People Do(Overcoming Obstacles, Adversities And Discouragement) - by Rick Gettle *** ------------------------------------------------------------ How would you like to see a permanent end to all of your problems? We all have problems – and our problems only end - when we do. The only people without problems are in the cemetery. I’d like to stick around – problems and all. How about you? No matter what problems we have to face today, there is a solution, because we have nothing to deal with but our own thoughts. As long as we think that our destiny is in the hands of other people, the situation is hopeless. We need to confront our problems with courage, boldness and action. There’s an old Chinese saying that goes, “If you live with a problem long enough, it could eventually become a blessing.” Within every adversity in life, there is always a seed of an equivalent or greater benefit. We have to look for it - find it - and act on it. We learn courage - when we face danger. We learn patience - when we endure suffering. We learn tenderness - when we taste pain. We learn to prize true friends – when false ones forsake us. We treasure health - when illness strikes. We learn to prize freedom - when we are in danger of losing it. Without trouble we would be like plants that have sprouted, grown, and been nurtured in the overprotected shelter of a hothouse -- too tender ever to live in the open. ** To read the full article, [go here.]( ------------------------------------------------------------ *** BOOK REVIEW: Thinking, Fast and Slow - by Daniel Kahneman *** ------------------------------------------------------------ In the international bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation―each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions. Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives―and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Winner of the National Academy of Sciences Best Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 2011, Thinking, Fast and Slow is destined to be a classic. ***** The list price of this book is $16.00. 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