Som Bathla - Living Beyond Self Doubt

LIVING BEYOND

SELF DOUBT

Conquer Insecurity, Boost Self Confidence, Improve Decision Making, and Reclaim Your Self Esteem

SOM BATHLA

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PART I: INTRODUCTION

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Why Are You Here?

S o you were just surfing the internet and somehow stumbled on this book page. You looked at To the Point book title, promising sub-title and also the flashy book cover with bright colors would have caught your eyes. Instantly, the next step you took was to buy the book.

Is it so?

Nope, I guess it is not that straightforward!

There probably are some deep burning questions inside you. Maybe you clearly know, or somehow, these thoughts are running in your sub-conscious mind.

And one more point, and I will be too blunt with you. Most of us would not want others to know that we are reading a book with such a title; Living Beyond Self-Doubt. The other title could have been How to Improve Your Self-Confidence or something like Re-Invent Your Life.

You can sense the difference. The first one shows an ailment, i.e., you have some disease called Self-doubt. But the other one shows that you have some good elements in you, i.e., self-confidence, but you simply want to do better.

Some might even go to the extent of thinking that they are already confident and dont need any preaching about increasing their self-confidence. You smell something like burning, right? Yes, this is ego heating up.

But lets come to the point. I have intentionally kept the title straightforward so that it reaches only the right set of people, who acknowledge that they have a feeling of self-doubt in their heads sometimes, or more often. The book also covers the category of people, who despite being confident generally, still acknowledge that often something is nagging in their heads on some aspects of life. This latter set of people are no doubt confident and appear so to the world at large, but in their own hearts and souls, there is something that scares them. There is still something stopping them from their journey from Good to Great, as Jim Collin states in his best-seller book Good to Great:

Good is the Enemy of Great~ Jim Collins

Thats why I have stated that this book is for such people, who acknowledge they suffer from self-doubt which is visible to them (and also often to the outside world). And also, for those people, who are not sure if it is their self-doubt or something else, stopping them from starting their journey from Good To Great.

So, you are here with a thought in your head and a feeling in your heart that you suffer from self-doubt in some manner. Less or more, it is just a matter of degree. But, you acknowledge that there is something, that needs to be worked upon.

Self-doubt simply can be defined as lack of confidence in oneself and ones abilities.

So, what is your definition or parameters of self-doubt? What do you consider as self-doubt?

Let me provoke you by suggesting some thoughts or feelings, so it could help you jot down your areas of concern.

1. You feel like something is lacking in your work life, whenever you have to deliver some work assignment to your stakeholders.
2. You doubt your capabilities of expressing your work clearly despite knowing and doing your work well.
3. You suffer from anxiety before any of your exams or important events of life, despite the fact that you have twice or thrice prepared for that day.
4. You feel butterflies in your stomach if something new or unrelated to your work comes in your way and you have to deliver the same.
5. You find yourself guilty and incapable of delivering, if you are given something new and start second-guessing your capabilities, despite your past successes.

Does any of this relate to you or would you say this all applies to you?

Be honest with you, please!

You must have heard the advice, to be honest with your doctor, accountant, and lawyer and tell them the complete truth. Why do they advise so?

Obviously! Because, if somehow you are required to reveal those secrets at the later stages, it might adversely affect your health treatment or your tax planning or litigation strategy. But the irony is you dont apply that same honesty to your life questions.

Therefore, you have to be candid about what you think about yourself and your internal thought process while answering these questions, believe me, you will be doing yourself a big favor by being truthful to yourself. Because only then will you be prepared to apply the strategies stated wholeheartedly in this book and get results.