Darrin Donnelly - The Turnaround: How to Build Life-Changing Confidence

The TurnaroundHow to Build Life-Changing ConfidenceDarrin Donnelly

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To Laura, Patrick, Katie, and Tommy; who are everything to me.Books By Darrin Donnelly

THINK LIKE A WARRIOR
The Five Inner Beliefs That Make You Unstoppable

OLD SCHOOL GRIT
Times May Change, But the Rules for Success Never Do

RELENTLESS OPTIMISM
How a Commitment to Positive Thinking Changes Everything

LIFE TO THE FULLEST
A Story About Finding Your Purpose and Following Your Heart

VICTORY FAVORS THE FEARLESS
How to Defeat the 7 Fears That Hold You Back

THE TURNAROUND
How to Build Life-Changing Confidence

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Introduction

People with confident, optimistic outlooks tend to succeed. People who are pessimistic, who lack confidence, tend to fail.

Dr. Bob Rotella, World-Renowned Sports Psychologist

Confidence is essential to success, happiness, and peace of mind. If we dont believe we can accomplish something, we wont. If we dont feel good about ourselves, we wont be happy. If we dont believe in ourselves, well never be at peace with who we are and what were capable of.

Yet, sometimes it seems like right when we most need a boost of self-confidence, it is nowhere to be found.

Weve all been there. Those times when it feels like life is working against us. When we have a losing season, we face a financial or health crisis, we lose a job, or we just seem to be encountering one big problem after another.

Its during those tough times when we often lose our self-confidence, which only makes matters worse. We start doubting ourselves, questioning whether we will get back on our feet, wondering how we will ever turn things around.

This book will show you how to build and maintain confidence no matter what is going on around youin good times and in bad.

No matter how dire the situation, every turnaround starts with renewed self-confidence. It is the catalyst for getting back up, conquering your problems, and feeling good about yourself again.

A person will tend to perform up to (or down to) his or her self-image and the person with a confident, positive self-image will outperform the person with an insecure, negative self-image in pretty much every area of life. That is why confidence plays such a vital role in the type of life you live.

The most confident team usually ends up winning the game. The most confident salesperson usually leads his or her team in sales. The most confident leaders tend to lead the most successful organizations.

Confidence plays a crucial role in our personal lives as well. Self-confident people feel good about themselves. They have healthier relationships. They worry less. They enjoy life more.

But despite knowing how important confidence is, we also know how fickle it can be. Coaches will tell you that one of the questions they most often hear from athletes is, How can I build more confidence?

Self-doubt and insecurity hold so many of us back from the success we desire.

Many people have surrendered to the false belief that confidence only comes after successnot realizing how important it is to build confidence first in order to succeed at a higher level. Others have come to believe they just arent the confident typeas though confidence is something genetically given to only a select few in this world.

The fact is, confidence can and must be generated from within if you want to be successful.

Not only is a healthy level of self-confidence required for success, but its also necessary for your well-being. Happiness and peace of mind will always be fleeting if youre wracked with self-doubt and insecurity.

Adding to the challenge of acquiring confidence is the fact that confidence can be a tricky thing to quantify. How much is enough? People sometimes worry about becoming too confident and therefore err on the side of timidity.

This book will teach you how to build a healthy level of confidence and eliminate the self-doubt that holds you back.

Like all books in the Sports for the Soul series, this is an inspirational fable. Its a story written from the perspective of a man looking back at the confidence-building lessons he learned as a college football player three decades agolessons that carried him to success and happiness well beyond the football field.

Once an insecure fourth-string quarterback on one of the worst college football teams in America, Danny OConnors life changes when a new coach named Bud Sullivan is hired and begins showing Danny and his teammates how to build the confidence they need to turn around their losing ways.

Over the course of three years, Bud lays the foundation for one of the greatest turnarounds in college football history and Danny learns invaluable lessons that will last him a lifetime.

As this story plays out, you will learn important truths about the role confidence plays in your life along with the practical, real-world methods used by some of the greatest coaches of all time for instantly generating self-confidence.

Confidence-building is an ongoing process and the techniques in this bookwhen used regularlywill generate the type of confidence that can turn around any situation and ignite winning streaks in every area of your life.

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