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***WINNER getAbstract International Book Award 2024 - Business Impact, Readers' Choice***
**Business Book Awards 2025 Finalist**
**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.
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
