I Can Make You Confident

This is the second book I`ve bought from Paul McKenna. I thought, "If anyone can use a bit of confidence at work that's me". So I gave this book a try. What I got was I a book full of tips that I could use at work on weekly basis for presentations and phone conferences.It took me a while to complete this book as I caught myself reviewing previously read sections. That usually happened because I noted a tip that I could use immediately at work and I didn't want to lose sight of it. This book is 224 pages book and includes a guided hypnosis CD. This is how the book is organized:Important: About the CDPrepare for Success!Section One: Developing the Confidence Habit1. Prepare Yourself for Success2. What Confidence Isn't3. Your Amazing Mind4. The Power of Positive Self-Talk5. The Motives in Your Mind6. Use Your Body to Change Your Life7. Emotional Intelligence8. Self-Belief9. You Really Can Do Anything!10. The 5-Minute Daily Confidence WorkoutSection Two: Motivate Yourself for Success11. What Motivates You?12. Goals, Goals, Goals!13. Get the Action Habit!14. The Currency of the Gods15. Don't Take "No" for an Answer16. Overcoming Overwhelm17. Create a Compelling Positive Future18. Your Daily Action Plan for SuccessSection Three: Confidence in the Real World19. Public Speaking20. Business Success21. Dating and Sex22. Leaving a Bad SituationSection Four: The Confidence Clinic- Frequently Asked QuestionsA Final ThoughtIndex of TechniquesAbout the AuthorEvery chapter reads like a speech from a seminar and many of them conclude with a simple exercise to reinforce the lesson learned on the chapter.The system in this book is not quite as simple as the four golden rules from McKenna's previous book, I Can Make You Thin. The part that may be equivalent to that is the 5-Minute Daily Confidence Workout in Chapter 10. It puts together five techniques in five minutes:Minute One: Success Highlight FilmsMinute Two: The MirrorMinute Three: Compliment YourselfMinute Four: Push the Confidence SwitchMinute Five: Confidence in ActionThis book also includes some Neural-Linguistic Programming, and acupressure techniques. For example, chapter 16 includes an acupressure technique to addresses what to do when "Life Happens" and you need some reinforcements.Chapter 19 was right for me, Public Speaking. I welcomed the tips in this section and my presentation skills have improved quite a bit as for other people to notice. McKenna breaks down the lesson into three steps:1. Manage your state2. Know your content3. Speak with passionAs with the previous system, I find the CD relaxing; I even awake full of energy. The hypnotic suggestions within the CD are geared toward reinforcing the lessons learned from the book.In all, I can say I'm satisfied with the results. So if you need a boost in your confidence, this book may be for you.

I had originally bought this book at the recommendation of a close friend who had told me that it had helped him immensely, and I was at a point that I would just just about anything to feel better. As others may have pointed out in previous reviews, this book does not replace counseling, but it can be a good companion to counseling, or like me, a stepping stone for counseling.As someone who has taken many psychology courses, there was overlap from what I had already learned and like some reviewers had mentioned, there is some common knowledge advice in this book. Although, looking at my copy of this book, there are several page flags that I have placed in different chapters of the book and used to have it next to my bed for reading. I did find that the ideas presented were helpful to me and gave me perspective into my own life and helped me explore and question why I felt the way I did about certain thigs and how could I reframe my thinking more positively or even just how to communicate better with others. I do think this book really did help me gain perspective in different facets of my life, which was worth it in it's own right.The exercise techniques listed at the end of each chapter weren't something that I really utilized or found beneficial personally, but they could help others in re-framing their mindset and the cd, while I found it to be calming to listen to before bed and to help me fall asleep, it also felt a bit creepy and don't feel that it helped as much as the book did, but my friend swore that the cd helped him a great deal so to each their own.Overall, I did find this book helpful, and even though I haven't picked it back up in a while I still think about some of the chapters in my daily life and think that it helped me when communicating with others. No, as the book, boldly touts, it did not make me confident, but it did bring me closer to learning to be confident.

Having studied NLP over the past few years I have discovered one flaw that makes it difficult to implement. And that is that there's too much information to sort through to quickly accomplish what you want. And that's what makes this book very practical.The author takes one subject...confidence... and then applies the various strategies of NLP around accomplishing this one goal. So you get the visualizations, time-lining and exercises all centered around accomplishing the goal of confidence. Which means you don't have to sort through volumes of patterns to find the ones that will get you what you want. This book takes at least a dozen of the best patterns and strategies and customizes them to make you more confident by minimizing the NLP tools you need, and at the same time maximizing there impact.By reading this book it also showed me how to use what I know about NLP into useable information. And by laying out this format I've discovered how you need to use different NLP patterns to accomplish any one goal you wish. Its a great blueprint for designing your own strategies to get what you want out of life.

Not read yet - but it was not as described by seller - front page is covered with a gift message to someone - it can be cut out - but this should have been described as good condition, not very good.

This book is brilliant and a must for a person who lacks confidence. It is a easy read and can be completed in a few hours. The exercises reinforce the CD.The CD is great and you start feeling more confident and this continues to improve the more you listen to it. I would recommend it to everyone even if you ooze with confidence. It is brilliant.

I have made good use of this book, fallen asleep to the meditation at times, though you're not really supposed to. Has it worked? He has some great strategies - but you have to work at it. Maybe I expected too much from the subliminal messages on the recording - haven't seen my miracles come to fruition yet...

very pleased thank you.

Misunderstanding ...all good now