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Your March Action Plan: 10 Easy Ways to Build Your Confidence

Success

Ask for a complimentary drink at lunch, or request a loyalty discount from your cable provider. Build self-confidence by being the calm. Read: 3 Action Steps for an Honest Self-Assessment 9. Practice self-care. Words have the power to damage our self-esteem and leave us reeling.

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How to Stop the Bully at Work

On The Job

Dr. Mary Lamia, a clinical psychologist and professor, writes that people often think that bullies have low self esteem, but they're really just people who are acting out because of internalized shame.She explains that bullies attack others "to take away their shame -- which allows them to remain unaware of their feelings." But adults?

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How ultra-achiever entrepreneurs use the holidays to win

The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

If you flub the annual pause for intelligent reflection, you’ll enable an insidious tendency to discount your own achievements and successes – minimizing or forgetting them – that’ll simply vaporize your self esteem. God forbid anyone should ever hear your internal dialogue on a bad day. The net outcome?

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How ultra-achiever entrepreneurs use the holidays to win

The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

If you flub the annual pause for intelligent reflection, you’ll enable an insidious tendency to discount your own achievements and successes – minimizing or forgetting them – that’ll simply vaporize your self esteem. God forbid anyone should ever hear your internal dialogue on a bad day. The net outcome?

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Work More Earn Less Doesn't Pay | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

But having the self-esteem, confidence, and finding the balance is hard. That freaks folks out because it’s counter intuitive to what we’ve been taught in marketing 101 and what we see all around us – discount mania or it’s a “recession&# only go for the deal. Each comment builds on the other.

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The Mel Robbins Guide to Screwing Up

Success

Rejection is that much-dreaded response that hits us right in the self-esteem. Ask for a discount before you purchase something. And with a little understanding, some exposure therapy, and a few solid tips, you can beat your feelings and be on your way to failing (and succeeding)—awesomely. Try Rejection Theraphy!

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Authoritative Website Copy | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

The Newtonian Laws Of Business – The First Law Reply Dean Rieck ( @DeanRieck ) November 30, 2009 at 10:39 am This sort of aggressive copy works for certain products and certain buyers, generally for self-help and get-rich-quick. Sort of like listening to Dr. Laura on the radio. “You’re a worthless weasel! Your life is crap!