What's Stopping You? – Why Smart People Don't Always Reach Their Potential and How You Can 2e Why Smart People Don't Always Reach Their Potential and How You Can

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 youre not quite the person you want to be?  Youre getting on ok, but you know you could go a step - or a giant leap - further in life.   So whats 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 isnt one of them. Success is not just about being ambitious. Thats easy. Its about how you respond to adversity along the way. Its about facing up to and overcoming your fear of failure. This second edition of Robert Kelseys bestselling Whats 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 countrys most successful businessmen, Luke Johnson, Whats 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

A practical guide to attacking the most common of phobias: fear of failure A practical guide to attacking the most common of phobias: fear of failure Since its publication in 2011, What's Stopping You? has offered readers a hard look at the quality of their careers and personal lives. For those who'd give themselves a solid "C+", this brutally honest guide to taking stock also offers the keys to self-improvement. By dismantling the fear inhibiting all achievement--fear of failure--author Robert Kelsey offers a set of seven steps designed to help readers map out their actions, and attain what once seemed elusive milestones. Written for the frustrated underachiever or anyone who feels like one, this unique book addresses can the real obstacles hindering both professional and personal growth. Includes a new chapter with tactics for overcoming a fear of failure Explores methods for dealing with different types of people in a host of situations, such as getting a new job, pitching for new work, making presentations, or communicating clearly in an argument With a Foreword by one of Britain's most successful businessman, Luke Johnson, this unique handbook to overcoming the most basic of fears is a must for anyone who would like to upgrade the quality of their life.