Take Your Dreams Seriously: Boost Self-Esteem, Stop Worrying & Stress, Find Life Purpose & Feel The True Freedom

By Dr. Michael Ericsson

Take Your Dreams Seriously: Boost Self-Esteem, Stop Worrying & Stress, Find Life Purpose & Feel The True Freedom

If you want to Master Self-Confidence, Eliminate Worrying & Shyness, Build Good Habits & Live a Stress-Free Life, then this is your book!

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

Many people barely develop self-discipline because of various reasons. It could be stress, lack of motivation, and exhaustion. However, despite these varied causes, there are ways on how you can become a successful person. Self-confidence is not just about controlling oneself, but is about living a healthy, quality and successful life. Learn how to develop self-discipline and enjoy life with the strategies provided in this book. Read on and find out!

What You'll Learn in Take Your Dreams Seriously: Boost Self-Esteem, Stop Worrying & Stress, Find Life Purpose & Feel The True Freedom...

How to Declutter, De-Stress and Simplify Your Life With Minimalism
How to Overcome Procrastination Forever
How to Eliminate Anxiety
How to Build Good Habits
How to Reduce Stress, Stay Calm and Achieve Happiness
How to Improve Your Self-Control
How to Fascinate People Through the Power of Charisma
How to Uncover Your Passion

What You'll Also Discover Inside...

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-esteem. There is a right phrase - "Lives with the cripple, learns how to limp".

Appearance is everything. When you look good you feel good. Simple. If you are walking around looking like you just got out of a rubbish bin, you probably won't be too confident about yourself. We all know how you feel when you walk out of the hairdresser, you walk a bit taller, you walk with purpose. So look after yourself and dress your best and you will feel your best. You know your best features to show them off!

This book will help you learn where to start in trying to pursue your passion.  

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 useful information you found here into practice day by day, and begin to enjoy the wholesomeness of life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dr. Michael Ericsson
• Release date: Aug 27, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386597933

Book preview

Chapter 1 –  How to Dominate Your Day with Morning Routine

What do you do the moment you wake up? Do you start your day by checking messages on your tablet? Or by checking your news feeds from different social media sites on your laptop? Or by doing nothing because you don’t really have any time for any morning rituals because you’re late for work or school? Or you simply woke up late and have nothing to do but sleep again?

Sounds familiar, right? You may be a night owl but being a morning person is not so bad. According to researchers, whatever you do first thing in the morning actually affects the entire day ahead. You may be wondering how.

Let’s put it this way: you’re a writer and you’re starting a new book but you find it hard to start writing because you can’t seem to make up your mind or better yet you have no springboard. In another context, you’re a businessman and you’re starting out on a new venture but then you’re having a difficult time since you don’t have enough resources.

Just like a good book having an amazing springboard or a successful business having enough resources, you too must have an awesome springboard and enough resources so that your day would end up being a fascinating one! Here are some of the springboards you should have:

Say a Prayer

Prayer is the best way for starting your day right. When you start and end your day with a prayer, you will have a peaceful heart and a peaceful soul. Your prayer does not have to be lengthy and full of sugar coated phrases. Just pray to be thankful for another opportunity in life and to pray for strength to hold on through all the challenges you are currently facing and for all the challenges that are to come. Pray with a sincere heart and surely you will be heard!

Work that Body

Once you’re finished mastering your spirit, why not exercise your body? Exercising is one way of keeping your body healthy and in shape. Health experts believe that there are many benefits you can gain when you exercise. Here are some: You get energized and surely you’ll shake off that lazy feeling. You’ll have an increased metabolism which pretty much helps you become more resistant to common sicknesses. You would surely decrease the risk of high blood pressure, heart disease and other risky things that pop up. Those are just some of the benefits you would get when you work that body. So, start working that body and show the world what you have benefitted from exercising.

Don’t forget to Eat

Experts say that breakfast is the most vital meal of the day, so don’t ignore breakfast. It is important because it generates the energy you need to start your day and because it is linked to many health benefits. Also, eating breakfast helps you feel less tired and helps keep you concentrated on the tasks you need to accomplish within the day. You may be conscious about your body which is why you may be focused on dieting, but you still need to have a breakfast each morning.

Show that Smile 

While you say your prayers and be intimate with the Creator, why not try to smile? Aside from being grateful for another day, smiling to a new day actually helps you start your day with a positive vibe. It helps you feel good and ultimately makes you happy. It eliminates all that stress in you and replaces it with a worry-free morning. So smile but don’t just smile; show the world your best smile!

Go Crazy

One of the greatest ways to have that extra special dose of happiness is listening to your favorite beat. Music helps relax your mind and helps you feel good about your day. It encourages you to be magnificent and to be who you want to be. So turn the volume up, sing your heart out and shake that body to the beat of the music!

Simply You

Simple joys in life are worth more than the happiness you get from having fame and money. You may be rich and famous but somehow there would come a time that you won’t be happy anymore and all that fame and fortune would somehow cease to exist. Don’t miss out on all the things that make you happy. What matters most is how happy your heart is and how your happiness infects others.

Meditate

Meditation and exercise may have a lot in common but these two are really very different things. In exercising, you are rewarded by a lot of sweat and that fat burning sensation you would feel after rigorous physical activity, but with meditation, you will get that relaxing feeling and the calmness you’ve always desired.

As you work on starting your day right, accompany it with a cup of happiness and you’ll surely get that savory mixture and that lovely feeling that would surely do you well.

Chapter 2 - How to Uncover Your Passion

If you have already discovered your talent, then it is time to discover your passion in this world. Passion is a strong feeling of enthusiasm for something or about doing something. Unlike talent, passion can be shared. Thus, people who have different skills can have the same passion. While those individuals who share the same passion, do not automatically have the same talents. A person can be passionate about his talent but also with other things in his life. However, someone's talent can't be automatically his passion. If your passion is your talent, you should have more chance of achieving your goals. There would be less stress and hassle. Doing something that is already second nature for you and adoring every minute of it would likely motivate you to have success than achieving something difficult and uninspiring.

So what are the ways to discovering your passion in life?

Meditate. Passion is a big force. It is unseen when it is not propelling something forward, such as talent. Thus, passion can be more difficult to see than talent. You may have several inner talents such as writing, dancing and running. One of these talents could be your passion in life.  It isn't easy to decipher our multitude of wishes and dreams into passion or just temporary obsession. You have to think from your internal core. To have the ability to access your internal core, you need to meditate. Find a place where you will be still and be at peace with your environment. Dive down to your inner core to draw on your deepest and truest aspirations in life. Ask yourself these questions:

a. What's my objective in life?

b. What takes up the majority of my time?

c. What do I love doing?

d. If I will get the opportunity to do one thing for the rest of my life, what would it be?

e. What would I do even if I do not get any payment or received anything for it in return?

f. What is it that I really do that animates me?

g. What makes me forget everything else aside from what I am doing?

If you can answer these questions in all honesty then you'll find important clues that will help you define your passion in life. You will need to really concentrate on your inner self, before you make an effort to answer these questions. If you're touching this self, you'd be able to perceive the case more clearly and answer these questions without bias.

Create a list of what you want to experience. Before you start your list, you should think about things which you have dreamed of doing but never got around to. You may not have done such things because of some factors such as - you didn't have courage to do it; you lack the money for it; your family was against it; you were too afraid to fail hence you never even tried it or it was way beyond your comfort zone. To make this specific list though, you will need to include everything you have imagined doing without concern of the factors which have hampered you from doing it before. Go over your list in case you might have missed out on something that had interests you before. Include everything you have imagined doing even if you think it's highly impractical, high-risk or vivid. Maybe it's not really your passion but who knows? While doing it, you might suddenly find your true passion in life, that something which ignites a raging fire in you.

Make an effort to experience at least five of those included in your list. At the soonest possible time, you should try to do at least ten of those that you've included in your list. Personally experiencing it will give you an inkling of what really interests you, what lights you up more than anything else. Passion is what makes a usually calm person talk animatedly about a particular subject; about his passion in life. You can never know what drives or excites you most if you haven’t done a lot of interesting things in your life. Have a firsthand experience of the probable things that would get your adrenalin going. Take a shot and who knows? You may discover just what it is that you would like to do for the rest of your life.

Exceed your comfort zone. You may be so used to your kind of life and your environment that it hampers you from discovering your passion. You have not had the opportunity to try anything new which is out