Are you in the habit of putting yourself down constantly? Or are you constantly second-guessing your abilities? Do you have that terrible belief that you are not worth it or not good enough? Or avoid certain situations or places simply because you perceive yourself with a negative light? If your answer to any of these questions is yes, then stop for a moment and keep reading

In everyday life, in business as in personal life, you are confronted with other people in different situations.

Very often you don't stop to think that from the first moment you put a foot out of bed, your best ally or your worst enemy is what you see in the mirror.

How do you expect to succeed in something if you don't believe it first?

You find yourself questioning your abilities, and consequently throw yourself down. Even avoiding important situations, assuming that you are not able to succeed.

Being aware of all this is just the beginning of success.

This book is centered on a phenomenon known as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). CBT is the activity where therapists help individuals to cope with a large range of emotional problems, and self-esteem is one of them. This is achieved by analyzing the bridge that links our thoughts (the cognitive side) and our feelings (both physical and emotional), and our actions (the behavior we portray).

Due to the mere fact that self-esteem affects every individual differently, there are many different tactics that can be employed to help you become more positive about themselves by building positive self-esteem.

In this book, we will look more into this and other topics including:

• The meaning of self-esteem, its development, its influencing factors, the different manners in which low self-esteem can present itself, and also its impacts. You will also perform some exercises that will greatly assist you to apply this information and knowledge to fit your own situation.
• How to learn of the strategies you can use to set realistic and achievable goals.
• How to follow through your set goal plan.
• Get to be more efficient in how you perform your duties more efficiently both in your personal and employment life so that you can achieve far much more with more discipline and less effort.
• Get to learn how to identify those unwanted thoughts that are intrusive and only bring forth bad or negative energy.
• Get to understand and know more about procrastination.
• How to learn proper management time allocation by avoiding procrastination and timely achievement of your set goals is the only difference between success and failure in life.

The purpose of this book is to provide you with the right knowledge on how to manage your time, plan for success via proper goal setting and also have the tools to ensure your self-esteem is always positive.

You also need to learn how to take proper care of yourself to properly use all that information and strategies to your advantage.

In the Self Help chapter, you will get to learn the tools and strategies you can use to help yourself cope with your circumstances to maintain positive self-esteem and remain grounded.

This is the only way you will be able to make conscious and calculated decisions to make the best of every situation and remain focused.