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    Boost Your Life: Declutter Your Mind, Eliminate Anxiety, Be More Productive & Achieve Your Goals
    Boost Your Life: Declutter Your Mind, Eliminate Anxiety, Be More Productive & Achieve Your Goals
    Boost Your Life: Declutter Your Mind, Eliminate Anxiety, Be More Productive & Achieve Your Goals
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    Boost Your Life: Declutter Your Mind, Eliminate Anxiety, Be More Productive & Achieve Your Goals

    By Dr. Michael Ericsson

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    Boost Your Life: Declutter Your Mind, Eliminate Anxiety, Be More Productive & Achieve Your Goals

    If you want to Build Self-Control, Stop Worrying & Shyness, Develop Leadership Skills & Get More Friends, then this is your book!

    This book contains great steps and techniques on how to solve self esteem issues, like feelings of being not good enough, of being inferior, and of being unworthy.

    What are you waiting for? Kick off your bad habits now and start learning how to control and change yourself—for the better.

    What You'll Learn in Boost Your Life: Declutter Your Mind, Eliminate Anxiety, Be More Productive & Achieve Your Goals...

    How to Declutter and Organize Your Life With Minimalism
    How to Get Rid of Procrastination
    How to Achieve Your Goals
    How to Manage Your Time and Get The Best Results
    How to Build Good Habits
    How to Create Inner Peace Through Mindfulness
    How to Skyrocket Your Willpower
    How to be Positive in Life
    How to Be Productive
    How to Become a Leader That People Will Follow
    How to Uncover Your Talents
    How to Explore Yourself
    And Much More...


    Take care of your health. If you feel good, you can achieve a lot. Regular exercises develop physical strength, perseverance and boost stress resistance. Choose a healthy diet and sleep a lot. Breaks for rest and meditation, your personal time should be as usual in your daily routine as, for example, brushing your teeth. Enjoy the fact that you look good, and try to take everything from life. Others will look at you with interest and respect.

    Set smaller goals. I don't mean that you should not reach for the stars, however, I do know that to get to the stars you need to first get into the atmosphere. Feeling good about yourself is a constant process. Confidence does not just happen overnight. When you look at your life goals consider breaking them up into smaller, stepping stones to the end result. This way you can have a constant flow of positive reinforcement as you achieve the steps along the journey of life.

    Communicate with positive and confident people more. Positive individuals are not trying to pressure you. Choose or modify your social circle, as it directly affects your self-confidence. There is a right phrase - "Lives with the cripple, learns how to limp".

    This book will help you to identify effective methods designed to bring out your charismatic personality.  

    I would like to encourage you to begin the journey by looking at yourself and accepting what you see. There can never be another you so be all you can be for the time being.   

    The next step is to put the things you have learned in action and begin to change your life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDr. Michael Ericsson
    Release dateAug 16, 2018
    ISBN9781386358299
    Boost Your Life: Declutter Your Mind, Eliminate Anxiety, Be More Productive & Achieve Your Goals

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      Boost Your Life - Dr. Michael Ericsson

      Chapter 1 –  How to Stop Anxiety and Stress

      Social anxiety is one of the reasons why people lose self-assurance and get stressed being around people. It is a discomfort when someone in public interactions fears of being judged and/or evaluated by others. Social anxiety is often characterized by an intense fear of what others around them are thinking resulting to an individual's emotions of insecurity and not being good enough to get attention to. It is also assuming that a person will automatically be rejected.

      Ask yourself these questions:

      1. Do you feel nervous when you are in social situations, like in parties or simply being out in public?

      2. Do you often have a hard time participating in social gatherings because of extreme shyness?

      3. Do you have the tendency to shy from people?

      4. Do you worry about being embarrassed in social settings?

      5. Do you feel like you have little or nothing to add in conversations so you end up not speaking or withdrawing all together?

      6. Do you worry about others seeing how nervous you are around them?

      If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may be experiencing the symptoms of social anxiety.

      To overcome social anxiety, you will have to master a few strategies.

      Challenge your negative thoughts

      Your thinking has huge impacts on your social anxiety issues. Many of these thoughts arise in your subconscious, thus, you are unable to control them, and they can either be negative or unhelpful thoughts. It is important to keep in mind that these thoughts remain as mere thoughts. These thoughts do not necessarily have to be factual.

      To challenge those negative and unhelpful thoughts, you need to question these thoughts; because the majority of the time, these thoughts are simply just based on wrong assumptions.

      The first step to challenging your thoughts is to recognize that these are negative thoughts. Establish what these negative thoughts are and discuss them in your mind on how you can make a few changes in your way of thinking. What are these negative thoughts?

      These are some of the common unhelpful thoughts that socially anxious people feed their brain with:

      Common negative thoughts before coming into the social situations:

      I might embarrass myself.

      I don't have anything to contribute in the discussion.

      I know I'll stammer.

      I'll appear to be a fool.

      Common unhelpful thoughts while engaged in social situations:

      All of them are looking at me.

      I am stammering.

      I am worthless.

      Common unhelpful thoughts after public situations:

      Each of them thought I was an idiot.

      Now they know that I am an idiot.

      I was not intelligent enough to maintain the discussion.

      Unhelpful thoughts about yourself:

      No one likes me.

      I am not a good conversationalist.

      I'm an idiot.

      These are just a few types of unhelpful thoughts that have great impacts on how you deal with social situations. Examine your thoughts. Are the ones listed here the same as your own thoughts?

      What you can do

      Think about the time when you were socially anxious.

      Consider your thoughts while you were in that situation.

      Identify and isolate the negative thoughts.

      Challenge these thoughts in your mind.

      Be aware of the common thought patterns that you have.

      Recognizing your thought patterns:

      Reading the minds of the people in the group. When you do that, you assume what other people think with no concrete proof.

      Too much generalizing a situation will make you more anxious.

      Dwelling on negativity.

      Methods to challenge the negative thoughts

      To accurately illustrate, here is an example of a negative thought: I don't have anything to say and they will all think that I am a fool.

      Now, you can ask these questions to challenge that negative thought:

      Do you have facts to contradict your negative thought?

      Do you recognize a common pattern?

      What do you think your friends would tell you if they realized what your thoughts are?

      How will you feel about this situation in half a year?

      Is there any other way that you can manage the situation?

      Stop focusing on yourself

      You might be doing it unconsciously but if you are socially stressed, you tend to focus on the way you act in front of the group. You are too worried about how your anxiety might manifest so you become too conscious that you lose focus on the actual interactions and the people you are with.

      Make an effort to divert your attention to others rather than on your own actions. Keep in mind that anxiety is less visible than it actually is. If you do notice some visible manifestation, it doesn't follow that something bad might happen. Everyone becomes anxious at some point so don't think that anxiety is isolated to you alone.

      Do not over-analyze things or situations. Socialization is not designed to be analyzed. Don't even replay elements of the conversation in your thoughts but concentrate on what is occurring in today's.

      Learn to relax. You don't have to pretend and no need to impress others. Just be yourself.

      Chapter 2 - How to Improve Your Body Language

      What makes charismatic people appear more fascinating and smart is not only the way they talk, but also how they move. Charisma as a behavioral characteristic is something that runs beyond words; it also extends to non-verbal types of communication. You should develop an eye and an ear for these types of things in order that you can stick to top of each situation.

      Essentially, everything boils down to reciprocity: treat others the way you want to be treated. If you wish to be treated with respect, for instance, you should treat others with respect, too. You do so, however, with a conscious regard to keep carefully the dynamics of your charismatic self. So while it is true that respect should be mutually afforded, you want to keep the upper hand of things by ensuring that you still project a subtext of power and retain a strong presence.

      Here are a couple of things that you can do to improve your body language:

      Smile. Nothing eases anxiety and awkwardness between two strangers more than the sight of a smiling face. You instantly look more reliable and trustworthy when you present a smiling countenance instead of if you are visibly annoyed.

      Give a stable handshake. This is indicative of self-reliance, strong-mindedness, and seriousness.

      Learn to focus. When talking to another person, refrain from pulling out your phone or else settling your gaze on a far-away object. Keep the attention to the person you are speaking with as a kind of courtesy and basic decency.

      Don't be fidgety. Remain steady. Otherwise, you end up looking more anxious and stressed than you truly are.

      Maintain eye contact. This is an indication that you are listening and that you are centered on what the other person is saying. Be mindful, however, from overdoing it. Some people are not comfortable participating in a staring contest of sorts, so much so that they would voluntarily look somewhere else if they can't bear the awkwardness any more.

      Show that you are listening by nodding once in a while. Nothing says that you are actually listening and absorbing what's being said more than those little nods you make once in a while.

      Present a polite demeanor. Refrain from raising your eyebrows, pouting your lips, wrinkling your nose, or shaking your head vigorously when you absolutely do not need to. You want to run into as charismatic, not combative or hostile.

      Do not cross your legs or arms. These are signs that you are uncomfortable with the situation and that you are refusing to open yourself up to anyone present.

      All of the things mentioned previously require frequent practice. Your mastery of these things depends in large part to the occurrence with which you try them out and the width of your experience. Obviously, the more used you get to these things, the better you become at displaying your charisma.

      To improve your skills further, consider training in the mirror. Stand in front of your mirror and pretend to be talking to yourself. While doing so, watch your own gestures, your own facial expressions, as well as your own words. If you were to rate yourself based on your ability to project assurance and positivity, then what score would you give yourself? What areas of opportunity need to be addressed?  Apart from looking at yourself in the reflection, you can also take acting classes.

      While at first you may need to fake some gestures or control your mannerisms, know these things should acquire flair of regularity. In other words, they should eventually turn into a norm so you won't have to pretend and instead be real with yourself.

      While it is true that unleashing your inner charismatic self can be done - and is not an inborn characteristic as others would have us believe - doing so nonetheless does take time, discipline, and determination. Charisma is a learned art, one that can't be obtained over the course of a day or even a week. As a result, it is necessary that you muster enough discipline to keep going. Indeed, with the right attitude and the right know-how to back it up, everyone can be charismatic.

      Chapter 3 - How to Meditate and Have a Healthier Life

      The goal of meditation is to let your body calm while you focus on a thought or an empty mind for a set period of time. Contrary to the popular belief that meditation has mystical effects and those who practice it have special powers, note that real meditation is a very simple activity

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