CHAPTER 1 DEFINING CONFIDENCE – IS IT WHAT YOU THINK IT IS?

We suspect you believe lack of confidence is the reason certain aspects of your life are not working out the way they do for everyone else who has confidence. You don’t blame anyone else for not earning more money, or not finding a job post-redundancy, or not finding love after divorce, or not buying a home, or not having children, or not changing careers, or not losing weight, or not getting fit, or not making new friends. This feeling, that it’s your fault, that it’s all because you’ve got no confidence, is very common. You’re not alone. Lacking confidence doesn’t feel good. You feel like there’s some screw missing from the intricate parts of your brain, or there’s a malfunction ...

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