Inner Brilliance, Outer Shine: 10 Antidotes to Imposter Syndrome, Workaholism and Stress

Inner Brilliance, Outer Shine: 10 Antidotes to Imposter Syndrome, Workaholism and Stress

by Estelle Read
Inner Brilliance, Outer Shine: 10 Antidotes to Imposter Syndrome, Workaholism and Stress

Inner Brilliance, Outer Shine: 10 Antidotes to Imposter Syndrome, Workaholism and Stress

by Estelle Read

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Overview

Optimise your success, performance, productivity and wellbeing to lead your best business-life. Entrepreneurs, business leaders and execs do not deliberately set out to over-work, feel miserable, become stressed by their success, think badly of themselves or damage their health and relationships. However, these are the people Estelle Read has been working with in her coaching practice for the last 15 years, and the issues are on the rise.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781789048032
Publisher: Collective Ink
Publication date: 03/08/2022
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 5.63(w) x 8.57(h) x 0.54(d)

About the Author

As Human Potential Coach, Trainer, Facilitator, MD at Beee, Estelle Read helps busy professionals optimise their productivity, success & wellbeing so that they lead their best business lives. She lives in Ashby de la Zouch, UK.

Table of Contents

Foreword 1

Acknowledgements 3

Introduction 5

Chapter 1 Antidote #1: Know Your Co-ordinates 10

Groundhog Day: Screw up and Repeat 11

Burnout 15

Stress

An Inside Job 17

Craving Reassurance 18

Shrinking Your Space 19

Imposter Syndrome 20

Not Good Enough 21

Getting Stuck in Denial 22

Summary of Key Points 27

Chapter 2 Antidote #2: Captain Your Ship 28

Your Ship

Owner-ship of Your Treasure Trove 30

Coming off Autopilot 32

The Unconscious Mind a 33

Your Captain is Calling 36

The Conscious Mind 37

Your Bridge

The Crow's Nest 39

Victim, Persecutor or Brave Captain? 41

But I was a Victim 44

Project Me Time 45

Summary of Key Points 48

Chapter 3 Antidote #3: Understand What Causes You to Sink 49

Nature Versus Nurture Model of Personality

Nature 50

Nurture - Imprint Phase 51

Safe and Stable or Unsafe and Unpredictable? 52

Loved or Rejected? 53

Success or Failure?

Nurture - Modelling Phase 54

Nurture - Socialisation Phase 55

When Faking it Doesn't Help You Make it 56

When Inner Stuff Dulls Your Shine 58

Cheating Change 59

Outdated Beliefs and Coping Strategies

Snapshot 61

Reality Check 63

The Inner Brilliance, Outer Shine Journal 64

Summary of Key Points 66

Chapter 4 Antidote #4: Align Towards Your Stars 67

Strengths 68

When Our Shine is Dulled 69

Accepting Our Nature-Based Weaknesses 70

Fixing Our Nurture-Based Weaknesses 71

Spotting When the Stars Align 74

Overdoing Strengths 76

Values 77

Values Misalignment 78

When Negative Feelings Are a Sign of Misalignment 80

Towards and Away from Values 81

Overdoing Values 82

Purpose 85

Summary of Key Points 87

Chapter 5 Antidote #5: Navigate to Destination Joy 88

Destination Grim

The Magical Mystery Tour 89

Why Fantasising Screws up Your Navigation 91

Natural, Unconscious Happiness and Success 92

Destination Joy: Vision 93

Vision Statement Checklist 96

Be the Brave Captain 97

Ports of Call: Goals 98

Four Types of Goal

Plotting the Course: Tasks 101

Programming the Quickest Route into Your Ship's Navigation System 102

Summary of Key Points 104

Chapter 6 Antidote #6: Offload Excess Baggage 105

Are You Exceeding Your Baggage Allowance? 107

More Shine 109

What is Havening? 111

What can Havening be Used for?

How Havening was Created 112

How Does Havening Work? 113

It Might Feel Like Magic 114

Does Havening Really Work? 115

What to Expect from Havening 116

The Small Print 117

Part 1 Understand the Havening Procedure 118

Part 2 Find Unwanted Baggage 120

Part 3 Offload Excess Baggage 121

Summary of Key Points 122

Chapter 7 Antidote #7: Run a Tight Ship 123

Parkinson's Law 124

Time Boundaries

We've Got 4 Hours 125

Your Production Line 126

Your Production Plan 127

Choc-a-Block 128

Managing Your Production Line 129

Saying Yes When You Mean No 131

Time Stealers 133

People Boundaries 135

Boundary Management Solutions: 137

Owning Your Space 138

Be Mindful of the Gap 140

Recognise When You've Used Up Your Help Quotient 142

Summary of Key Points 144

Chapter 8 Antidote #8: Develop Your Inner Captain 146

The Impact of Negative Thoughts and Language 148

Your Inner Captain 149

Blackpool Illuminations 151

What If-ing and Plan B 153

Useful or Use-less Thoughts? 155

Down in the Doldrums 156

Your Inner Captain's Voice 159

Learn to Take the P Bob 161

Reverse Gratitude 162

Re-Dipping 163

Gratitude and Mindfully Seeing 164

The Inner Brilliance Outer Shine Journal - Processing Thoughts 166

Affirming Instructions 169

Summary of Key Points 170

Chapter 9 Antidote #9: Learn to Handle Rough Seas 172

Boosting Performance

State of Mind 174

Why State Matters 175

When State Damages Our Performance 176

Rocks and Rough Seas 177

Joy Has Competition 179

Meta Emotions 180

When Your Bucket is Overflowing 181

Under Captain's Orders 182

Calming Rough Waters: EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) 183

What is EFT? 184

EFT Efficacy 185

How to Use EFT 186

Cultivating Joy 190

Scheduling Joy 191

Summary of Key Points 193

Chapter 10 Antidote #10: Access the Mess Deck 194

My Manifesto for Your Change

Missing Life and Making Ourselves Sick 195

Your Energy Bank 197

The Root of All Evil - Inflammation 200

Your Duracell Batteries - Mitochondria 203

Donuts Make You Cross - Putting Good Fuel In 204

Self-Care: Treat Yourself Like a Baby 206

Sleep 207

Brainwaves 209

Meditative Breathing 210

Preparing Ourselves for Sleep 211

Move Your Body 213

Staying on Course 214

Visit the Mess Deck Daily 215

Summary of Key Points 216

Conclusion 217

About Estelle Read 224

Work with Estelle Read 225

Endnotes 226

References and Further Reading 231

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