How to Get Out of Your Own Way: A Step-by-Step Guide for Identifying and Achieving Your Goals

Tired of losing... and suspecting YOU are your own worst enemy? This is what you've been looking for! This book is full of expert, pragmatic advice for unraveling and breaking through self-defeating behavior. It uses a combination of interactive questionnaires and exercises to help you turn around your career, your relationships, and even your very own personality. This book shows you 27 self-sabotaging characteristics, how your family background effects your career, how to escape negative patterns of the past, how to form positive personal and business relationships, the 9 rules for defining success, and the importance of "imagineering."

Daniel G. Amen, M.D. is a clinical neuroscientist, psychiatrist, brain-imaging expert, and medical director of Amen Clinics in Newport Beach and Fairfield, California, Tacoma, Washington, and Reston, Virginia. He is a nationally recognized expert in the field of brain and behavior, lecturing to thousands of mental health professionals, judges, and lay audiences each year. His clinics have the world’s largest database of brain images relating to behavior. Dr. Amen is assistant clinical professor of psychiatry and human behavior at the University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine. He did his psychiatric training at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. He has won writing and research awards from the American Psychiatric Association, the U.S. Army, and the Baltimore-D.C. Institute for Psychoanalysis. He has been elected to the status of Distinguished Fellowship in the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Amen’s writings have been published around the world. He is the author of numerous professional and popular articles, twenty books, and a number of audio and video programs. His books have been translated into thirteen languages and include Change Your Brain, Change Your Life, a New York Times best-seller, Healing ADD, Healing the Hardware of the Soul, Healing Anxiety and Depression (with Dr. Lisa Routh), Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease (with Dr. Rod Shankle), and Making a Good Brain Great. Dr. Amen, together with the United Paramount Network and Leeza Gibbons, produced a show called The Truth About Drinking on alcohol education for teenagers, which won the Emmy award in 1999 for the Best Educational Television Show. In addition, Dr. Amen has appeared on The Today Show, CNN, The View, 48 Hours, The Jane Pauley Show, HBO America Undercover: Small Town Ecstasy, MSNBC, PAX, Discovery Channel News: Inside the Mind of a Killer, The 700 Club (on drug abuse), Discovery Channel’s Next Step, ABC, NBC, and CBS News, and more than four hundred radio interviews worldwide. His print credits include Newsweek, Parade, Bonkers, McCall’s, Ladies’ Home Journal, Parenting, and the Wall Street Journal. Dr. Amen writes a monthly column for Men’s Health magazine titled “Head Check.”