Introducing Psychology of Success: A Practical Guide (Practical Guide Series) - Softcover

Alison Price; David Price

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848312598 ISBN 13: 9781848312593

Publisher: Icon Books, 2011

Synopsis

Introducing Psychology Of Success: A Practical Guide by Alison Price & David Price uses expert insights, real-life case studies and powerful techniques to help you reach your full potential and achieve whatever you want in life - starting now. You can identify what success means to you, and build day-to-day strategies to reach your goals, overcome obstacles and succeed in the face of adversity, seize the day and learn to appreciate the bigger picture, and change your life for the better - for yourself and those around you.

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From the Author

Introducing Psychology Of Success: A Practical Guide is a practical and inspirational book will give you a template to create your own amazing successes. The Psychology of Success book explores what you need to think and do to achieve your goals so that you can you reach your full potential and achieve whatever you want in life.
 
The Psychology of Success book shares a wealth of inspirational stories detailing how people - from the famous to the person on the street - have achieved magnificent successes and then explains the fascinating psychology behind why these strategies worked in real life, all in an easy to understand way. You will then be able to apply these principles in your own life to achieve your own amazing goals.
 
As you read the Psychology of Success it will help you step back from your life, work out what you want from it and take action to achieve it.  It will show you how to begin with the end in mind, so that you deliberately work towards what you want, rather than drifting through life until you reach a place where you are stuck.
 
Using the Psychology of Success, you'll dare to dream about what life can be like and realize that you can do things that you really don't think you could do. You'll want to start putting in the effort needed to achieve your dreams because it'll be so worth it.
 
The Psychology of Success will show you how to set goals that enable you to achieve much more. Through the power of setting your goals right and breaking these down into achievable interim steps, you'll be able to achieve more than you imagined possible. This self-help book will show you how to shortcut the amount of time and effort it takes to learn how to succeed, by copying the winning strategies and beliefs of others.
 
The Psychology of Success also reveals how to keep yourself motivated by setting yourself mini-targets, quick wins, which you can regularly achieve. This will ensure that you get a regular dose of a wondrous natural chemical in your brain that will keep you motivated.
 
The Psychology of Success will also help you to overcome fears that hold you back. You'll be energized to just have a go, without worrying about failure but instead worrying about the chances you miss if you don't even try.  There are opportunities all around you that will help you to reach your goal. Keeping your goal at the forefront of your mind helps your brain's power of selective attention to register those opportunities. If you have been told that you can't do something, remember that with some self-belief you can prove them wrong. Just because others say you can't doesn't mean they are right.
 
Even if things don't go well to start with, through the Psychology of Success you'll see that it is worth the effort and hold your head high and try again. Just by taking action you have an opportunity to work out what works and what doesn't. You haven't failed by taking action - even if you don't reach what you were aiming for, you have succeeded in understanding more.
 
There is also one very powerful winning ingredient when it comes to success and that is revealed with the Psychology of Success book.
 
As you've seen from what the Psychology of Success can do, it is a fascinating new topic, one that combines inspirational aspects, motivational techniques, psychological insights and methods for achieving genuine happiness. In particular, there are four disciplines we have included in our concept of the Psychology of Success.
 
The first field that we draw upon within the Psychology of Success is the traditional discipline of psychology, the scientific study of the mind and our resulting behavior. This topic is well over 100 years old and has produced a wealth of invaluable knowledge about our personalities, motivations and behaviors that lead to achievement.
 
The second field that the Psychology of Success draws upon is Positive Psychology - a subject brought to prominence by the former head of the American Psychological Association, Martin Seligman - which studies human potential and looks at how to improve our lives, enabling people to become happier and more fulfilled. Of special relevance to the Psychology of Success is the research into what makes us genuinely fulfilled as success in life cannot in fact be thought to be a real success if the achievement of our goals makes us miserable.
 
The third field that we've drawn upon for the Psychology of Success is the field of motivational coaching. Over the years motivational coaches have popularized methods from the topic of neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), which is a technique of alternative therapy that adapts our experiences and changes our perceptions of them. The benefit of combining motivational coaching with traditional psychology and Positive Psychology is that you have a better balance through a mixture of science and powerful motivational techniques.
 
The fourth discipline that the Psychology of Success draws upon is sports psychology. This field of psychology enables sportsmen and women to reach the summit of their personal sporting abilities. While this discipline is more focused on how athletes can become sporting champions, there are some beneficial lessons that can be applied more broadly to help you to reach that 'gold medal' in your own goals.
 
Through combining these four disciplines the Psychology of Success will guide you to identify what success looks like for you, give you practical ways to achieve your goals and show you how to overcome obstacles along the way.
 
Nothing gives us greater pleasure than hearing how readers of the Psychology of Success are getting energized and transforming their lives for the better. We invite you to submit your success stories, whether large or small, so that we can hear how our readers are improving any aspect of their life.
 

From the Back Cover

Introducing Psychology: A Practical Guide uses expert insights, real-life case studies and powerful techniques to help you reach your full potential and achieve whatever you want in life - starting now.
 
IDENTIFY WHAT SUCCESS MEANS to you, and build day-to-day strategies to reach your goals
 
OVERCOME OBSTACLES and succeed in the face of adversity
 
SEIZE THE DAY and learn to appreciate the bigger picture
 
CHANGE YOUR LIFE for the better - for yourself and those around you
 
Alison Price, founder of The Success Agents, is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist, a university lecturer in Business Psychology, and was a semi-finalist in the competition Britain's Next Coach. David Price is qualified in coaching and psychology, and is an NLP Practitioner.
 

Edition details

• Publisher: Icon Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1848312598
• ISBN 13: 9781848312593
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 224