Pushing Your Envelope: How Smart People Defeat Self-Doubt and Live With Bold Enthusiasm - Softcover

Zappala, Maureen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1881462579 ISBN 13: 9781881462576

Publisher: Lexington Press, 2018

Synopsis

Everyone sees you as successful and capable. You, however, explain away your accomplishments as due to luck, timing or good connections. Your inner voice declares: They all think I'm smarter than I really am! I feel like such a fraud! This version of chronic self-doubt that plagues high-achievers is called Impostor Syndrome. It causes people to discount their success and second-guess their abilities. Haunted by a fear of being unmasked as a fake, they remain beneath self-imposed limits, afraid of both success and failure. Some limits need to be pushed. Airplanes fly within limits called the operating envelope, the set of conditions where they are aerodynamically safe and stable. Sometimes they push the envelope and fly near and even beyond these limits. You, too, can push the envelope. Move beyond your imagined limits, beyond feeling like a fake. Replace the fear and anxiety with joy and excitement, and live with bold enthusiasm. Feel great about being great. This book contains simple strategies to hep you eliminate this fraud experience so you can defeat chronic self-doubt, and truly enjoy your success. Joyful living beyond your boundaries begins when you push YOUR envelope.

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About the Author

Maureen Zappala, a New York City native, is an award-winning speaker, author and presentation skills coach. She has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and spent 13 years conducting jet propulsion research at the NASA Lewis Research Center (now the NASA Glenn Research Center) in Cleveland, Ohio. She became the youngest and first female manager of the NASA Propulsion Systems Laboratory. She is the founder of High Altitude Strategies, a speaking and coaching organization where she works with high-performers who struggle with the Impostor Syndrome, the internal voice that says I am not as smart as everyone thinks I am! In 2009, she was in the top 10 of 30,000 contestants in the Toastmasters International World Champion of Public Speaking contest. She is the author of Great Speakers are Not Born, They're Built and co-author of Buckeye Reflections: Legendary Moments in Ohio State Football. She is a member of the National Speakers Association (NSA), and was the 2017-18 President of the NSA-Ohio chapter. Maureen lives outside Cleveland, Ohio.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lexington Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1881462579
• ISBN 13: 9781881462576
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 134