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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. Soon, he’d rewired his thoughts : Comely had trained himself to go for it—to ask for things, to try new things, to not worry about the outcome. Try Rejection Theraphy!

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Are You Interfering With Your Readers' Lives?

Men With Pens

Now, of course, self-help books are not always a total waste of time. They can be inspiring, they can be uplifting, or they can help you reach your goals, from learning how to juggle to shaking off low self-esteem to improving your business. But a good self-help book knows its own limits. But where is the line?

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Three Ways to Start a Revolution | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

Especially when you’re inexperienced, self-esteem issues come into play – having people you respect say that you’re doing something right. If the objective is training in a specific subject, some of these would work better than others. Is the goal training? Walking your own path takes a lot of guts.

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How NOT to Get the Freelance Job - and What to Do | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

DON’T have low self-esteem. The two that really tweak my lug nuts are: following directions and showing some self-esteem. After reading through thousands of job applications, it’s amazing how much a little copywriting training would help almost everyone. Always throws me for a bit!

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