What's Stopping You? Why Smart People Don't Always Reach Their Potential and How You Can

by Kelsey, Robert; Johnson, Luke

• ISBN13: 9780857083074
• ISBN10: 0857083074
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-08-20
• Publisher: Capstone

Summary

This personal witty and insightful book teaches us about the fears that drive failure and the self-awareness that can help us navigate it. The great point about this book is that it is both philosophical with regards the nature of fear and its impact on achievement, and practical. For those that may be paralysed by a fear of failure, it offers a way through," Luke Johnson, serial entrepreneur, Financial Times columnist and Chairman of the RSA "This powerful, insightful book shows you how to unlock your unconscious brakes and step on the acceleration of your true potential!" Brian Tracy, author of Maximum Achievement "Kelsey offers a successful and eloquent analysis of fear of failure as a mass condition in the modern world, and one we ignore at our peril," Donald Kirkpatrick, psychoanalyst and a founder of the London Association for Counselling and Psychoanalysis Do you ever feel like you're not quite the person you want to be? You're getting on ok, but you know you could go a step or a giant leap further in life. So what's really holding you back? Everyone knows that the secret to success is confidence. And there are plenty of quick-fix solutions that claim to bring instant success, constant happiness and dream fulfilment. This book isn't one of them. Success is not just about being ambitious. That's easy. It's about how you respond to adversity along the way. It's about facing up to and overcoming your fear of failure. This second edition of Robert Kelsey's bestselling What's Stopping You? includes a revised preface, plus, an extended practical section, featuring a new chapter that explores tactics for overcoming your fear of failure and dealing with different types of people in everyday situations, such as getting a new job, pitching for new work, making presentations or communicating clearly in an argument. . Written by Robert Kelsey who runs his own business and with a foreword by one of the country's most successful businessmen, Luke Johnson, What's Stopping You? is well grounded in personal experience and draws on existing self-help theories that work, while dismissing those that over promise and under deliver. "Robert Kelsey has combined thorough research, careful thought and the lessons of his own experience to produce a valuable, original and eminently readable book. I can strongly recommend it to anyone whose progress has been impeded by fear of failure." John Caunt, author of Boost Your Self-esteem "Confidence is the ultimate secret weapon of any successful entrepreneur. If Robert's book can help you find yours then it will be worth its weight in gold." Rachel Bridge, author of How I Made It

Author Biography

Robert Kelsey is author of Capstone's bestselling What's Stopping You? exploring why smart people failed to reach their potential. He has gone on to sell over 64,000 copies across three What's Stopping You? titles.
Robert Kelsey is CEO of Moorgate Communications, a financial PR agency, and was previously CEO of Metrocube, a start-up incubator located in London's fashionable "City-fringes". He trained as a financial journalist before becoming an investment banker and a now an entrepreneur, running his successful PR agency.
Yet Kelsey remains and perennial outsider. From a rebellious childhood to an adulthood of pursuing a series of unsuitable careers, he has had a lifetime of failing to settle into any group activities, yet lacking the confidence, guile or know-how to profitably "rebel". Kelsey has developed an enormous insight into both the root causes of alienation and the all-encompassing negative consequences.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition	p. ix
Foreword	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
What is Stopping You?	p. 9
Fear	p. 11
External Responses	p. 28
Failure as a Positive Experience	p. 43
Producing Better Responses	p. 54
Goals	p. 61
Act	p. 63
Visualization	p. 72
Language and Behaviour	p. 87
Appropriate Goal Setting for Recovering High-FFs	p. 98
Execution	p. 107
Strategy and Tactics	p. 109
Judgement and Ideas	p. 123
Managing the Process	p. 132
People	p. 149
Self-esteem	p. 151
Dealing with the Boss	p. 163
Progress as an Employee	p. 172
Networking and Interviews	p. 181
Leadership	p. 194
Me Inc.	p. 209
The High-FF Entrepreneur	p. 211
Alternative Paths for the High-FF	p. 220
Conclusion The Point of Recovery	p. 233
Seven Steps to Navigating Fear of Failure	p. 241
Bibliography	p. 247
About Robert Kelsey	p. 253
Index	p. 255
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