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Title overview

Brilliant Personal Development is your one-stop shop for an all-round successful life. From helping you to map out what you’re good at and what you want to do with your life, to equipping you with all of the major life skills you’ll need along the way (including self-esteem, self-confidence, assertiveness, body language and stress reduction), it’s your essential guide to becoming the very best you can be.

Brilliant outcomes:

  • Understand yourself better – what you’re good at, what you want to do.
  • Perfect your life skills, including confidence, assertiveness, self-esteem.
  • Reduce stress, build better relationships and much more.

Table of contents

 

About the author

Acknowledgements

Before you begin

The way this text works

Introduction: first things first

 

1 The makings of brilliant personal development

2 Two things you might need … and a warning

 

PART 1   Getting started

 

3 Luck or effort?

4 Discovering you

5 Discovering your core beliefs

6 Discovering your values

7 Discovering your strengths

8 Developing your vision

9 Developing your mission

10   Developing and achieving your goals

11   Developing your motivation

12 Gaining support

 

PART 2   Getting development fit

 

13   Achieving self-esteem

14   Achieving self-confidence

15   Achieving success out of failure

16   Achieving assertiveness

17   Dealing with change

18   Achieving relaxation (and reducing stress)

 

PART 3   Understanding people

 

19   Understanding other people

20   Body language and rapport

21   Building your network

 

Final words

Index

 

 

Author bios

Max Eggert is a psychologist and author of numerous books including, Perfect Interview Answers (Random House, 2006), Body Language at Work (MPB, 2010) and Brilliant Body Language (Prentice Hall Life, 2010).

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