Coach Yourself Confident

COACH YOURSELF CONFIDENT:DITCH THE SELF-DOUBT TAX, UNLOCK HUMBLE CONFIDENCE (WINNER GETABSTRACT INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2024 - BUSINESS IMPACT, READERS' CHOICE) (THE PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE LONGLISTED TITLE 2024/25)

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***WINNER getAbstract International Book Award 2024 - Business Impact, Readers' Choice***

**The People's Book Prize Longlisted Title 2024/25**

"I devoured every page of this wonderfully written book." - Sergio Ezama, Chief Talent Officer, Netflix

Want to be more confident at work? You're not alone.

So many of us grapple with self-doubt.

Perhaps you're an exhausted achiever? You're delivering results and progressing in your career, but you feel utterly worn out. You're compensating for a lack of confidence with excessive effort and punishingly high standards.

Or perhaps you're feeling frustrated and unfulfilled? Self-doubt is making you hold yourself back, you're avoiding challenges that could demonstrate how good you really are.

This book can help. Distilling over a decade of real-life research into clear insights, practical tools and impactful activities, Julie Smith shows you how to Coach Yourself Confident.

Review:

A useful resource to keep close to hand to refer back to, as our confidence levels ebb and flow depending upon the slings and arrows that life throws at us. Read with an open mind in a spirit of curiosity, it offers best practice to recognise bad habits or ingrained self-doubt. 'Coach Yourself Confident' can set you on the road to freeing yourself from your inner critic and unlocking your hidden potential. - Entertainment Focus

Cards on the table, I know the author. But all that means is I can validate the content even more. The concepts are brilliant and put together in practical and easy ways with tips to help you land them yourself. As a read its so easy to step in an out of, but I reckon once you have started it you won't put it down. - LinkedIn

An absolute standout book for anyone looking to boost their self-confidence. - Amazon 5*

Julie Smith has an incredible way of writing that feels as though I am in a physical coaching space with her! From start to finish, Coach Yourself Confident is packed full of practical (highly accessible) exercises, meaningful story telling and such a sense of honesty. - Amazon 5*

Once in a while a self help book comes along that you want to pop in your bag, either to share with a client or to enjoy again...Julie Smith's new book...is such a book - it offers an enjoyable first read, but potential multiple reuses with exercises, insights and ideas to add to your own coaching practice, or to share with others for their own journeys. - Jonathan Passmore, LinkedIn

This is not just a book-it's a transformative experience waiting to be embraced. I encourage you to seize the opportunity to acquire this gem; its ease of comprehension belies its profound impact, making it a valuable addition to any library! - Sally Brys, LinkedIn

Contents:

Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
List of activities
Introduction: How to coach yourself confident
Mapping out the territory
Why 'coach yourself confident'?
Doing the work
1 Fuel for life
What does confidence give us?
Better odds
A willingness to say YES
The trust of others
A collective power
The difference for you
How do we grow confidence?
The momentum of confidence
Feeling the fear and doing it anyway
2 The self-doubt tax
How self-doubt shows up
The inner critic
Words that sow the seeds of doubt
Nerves and butterflies
Counting the cost
Paying the self-doubt tax in missed opportunities
Holding back
Staying small
Slowing the pace
Leaving potential unfulfilled
Paying the self-doubt tax in overwork
Achievement addiction
Hero complex
Over preparation
Emotional exhaustion
Show yourself some compassion
3 The humble confidence benefit
Painting a picture
The humble confidence mantra
Right-sized self-doubt
Getting too big for your boots
Uniquely you
A paradox
4 Faulty calibration
A hall of mirrors
An uncertain grasp
Owning your strengths
Feedback through a filter
The highest of bars
The longest of lists
5 Confidence saboteurs
The inner critic
Comparisonitis
FOPO
Mindreading
Overthinking
Perfectionism
Fear of failure
Tiredness
Underminers
6 Comings and goings
A wobbly line
That so this
Steep drops
Bumps and knocks
Job changes
Free range confidence
7 Homegrown confidence
Confidence by proxy
Over-reliance on others
Borrowing confidence
People pleasing
Leaving ourselves vulnerable
Confidence in community
From borrowed to owned
Just enough support
Keeping up with yourself
Permission to be you
A few final words of encouragement
Acknowledgements
About the author
Bibliography
Index
Prizes: Winner of THE READERS' CHOICE GETABSTRACT BUSINESS IMPACT AWARD WINNER 2024. Long-listed for The People's Book Prize 2024.

Author Biography:

Julie Smith, founder of leadership consultancy Talent Sprout, is a sought-after coach who has been supporting leaders to grow their confidence for three decades. Through this real-world research she has developed, tested and honed frameworks and tools that unleash conscious confidence.