Your Own Worst Enemy: Breaking the Habit of Adult Underachievement

Your Own Worst Enemy: Breaking the Habit of Adult Underachievement

Language: English

Pages: 304

ISBN: 006098872X

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


If you or someone you love isn't living up to his or her potential –– and suffers from even one or two of these feelings –– here is a program that can help. In Your Own Worst Enemy, Dr. Kenneth Christian details the telltale signs of what he calls self–limiting behavior –– everyday habits that can seem harmless but that over time can send high potential people into a tailspin of dead ends and frustration. And he offers a practical fifteen–step guide to help underachievers shake off their old habits and start taking an active hand in their own futures.

Your Own Worst Enemy will help underachievers everywhere visualize their goals, break through their barriers, and start realizing their unlimited potential.

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aging, death, relationships, and choice points—along with a pressure cooker of additional puzzles in random events and the twists and turns of your particular life story. How you react to them influences their outcome, what you learn from them, and your next lessons. Your intentions and goals, combined with how well you pay attention and use your abilities, influence continuously what you get and who you become. If you exploit the possibilities and learn, the school is your pass to freedom. If

wanting recognition for nearly completed efforts, attempt to create a special niche that lays claim to a special status. This is commonly seen among those who complete doctoral coursework but do not complete their doctoral dissertation and affix the label Ph.D. A.B.D. (All But Dissertation) to their name as if it were a recognized title. Frequently perfectionistic and anxious, stop-shorts prohibit themselves from actually attaining their goals out of fear they cannot quite define.

ready for. In the film Tin Cup, Kevin Costner plays just such a person, a club pro golfer who, through extreme risk-taking tactics, squanders his chance to win the U.S. Open. Rebels: Rebels aggressively strike out at the world and go against authority. Often suspicious of what they feel are others’ attempts to exploit or control them, they struggle fiercely or simply refuse to comply. The character portrayed by Jack Nicholson in Five Easy Pieces is a rebel. He comes from a patrician family

the discomfort of intense light or closes his eyes and turns away to resume the comfort of familiar, dimmer light. Or you plunge ahead without thoughtful preparation and, while pouring new wine into your existing wineskins, encounter troublesome leaks. If you do not prepare well for change, are not open and pliable, and do not pay close attention, you undermine your attempts to change even as you are making those efforts. If you do not prepare properly and get bad results, you are like the

function as a demand that directs you to make efforts toward meeting it. Do not set deadlines for your long-term goals. The reason? If you set a deadline for a long-term goal, you may slow your progress by eliminating opportunities to find truly creative and efficient solutions that could come more quickly. Short-term goals, on the other hand, are tools for reaching immediate objectives in brief time frames, such as one week. An example of short-term goal planning might be to make six

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