How To Overcome Self-Doubt Through Self-Appreciation

by Carmel O' Reilly

Overview

Welcome to my book about how to overcome self-doubt through self-appreciation throughout the chapters of your WorkLife Story. Here is a preview of what's inside, along with the main ideas and the meaning behind these.

WorkLife is our life at work, where we spend one third of our lives. It is also the impact our work has on our life outside of work, and the impact our life outside of work has on our work. All areas of our life in and out of work are so intrinsically linked, they cannot be separated, nor do I believe should they. I believe WorkLife needs to be considered holistically.

You do so many great things over the course of your WorkLife, some of which you forget about or take for granted, and you don't always recognise how something you've done in the past can help you with something you aspire to do in the future. This can lead to you not fully appreciating who you are and how much you have to give, which in turn can lead you to doubt yourself.

In this book I tell four stories:

1. I Won't be Considered for Jobs Because I'm Too Old: Joe's story of how he was going through the motions of a back-to-work programme, but needed more to overcome his self-doubt. 


2. I've Never Done This Before, Is It/Am I Good Enough: Carmel's story of how she overcame her self-doubt through self-appreciation. 


3. Crushed by Feedback and What I Did Next: Carmel's story of how over time, through positive feedback given in context, she overcame a crushing experience. 


4. How a Lifelong Love of Creating Stories Helped to Overcome Lifelong Self-Doubt and Lack of Self-Appreciation: Gabriel's story of how telling stories to his young son brought him back to the place his self-doubt and lack of self-appreciation had begun, and how through the stories that unfolded he was able to overcome this.

I share the exercises that helped to work through these challenging situations to resolve the dilemmas. I present these exercises as the following assignments for you to work through:

Writing Your Biography Assignment
This assignment is to help you to take the fastest and surest way to feel good about yourself by understanding how your WorkLife fits into the bigger picture.

Develop a Practice of Continuous Self-Feedback Assignment
This assignment is to help you to continue to evolve as your WorkLife evolves, by being self-in- formed as to how you're doing to keep you moving forward.

Develop a Practice of Insightful Self-Questioning Assignment
This assignment is to help you to know that you have the answers you need inside you.

Your Story of How You Were Crushed by Feedback and What You Did Next Assignment
This assignment is to help you to learn from your experience and plan the steps you need to take to move forward.

Three Steps to Overcoming Self-Doubt Assignment
This assignment is to help you to accept that self-doubt is part of life, and that it's what you do next that is important.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940186765998
Publisher:	Carmel O' Reilly
Publication date:	02/16/2023
Series:	School of WorkLife , #17
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	515 KB

About the Author

Carmel O’ Reilly is the founder of School of WorkLife. She was born and grew up in Ireland, and now lives in Shoreditch, London.

Her work and subsequently her first book, Your WorkLife Your Way, and its companion workbook, focus on helping people live their best WorkLives by managing their learning, development and growth, through effective self-feedback, insightful questions and the ability to shape and tell their unique story. 

Her School of WorkLife book series tells WorkLife stories of the obstacles, failures, and successes people encountered in their WorkLife. Each book includes the exercises that helped navigate these situations, which are presented as assignments for readers to work through and adapt to their challenging WorkLife situations.

Her books are designed to help you gain insight and inspiration in your chosen area of WorkLife, and then support you in achieving what is important to you in your WorkLife learning, development and growth. You will learn to take ownership of your strengths and potential, as well as assessing your challenges to determine where you are stuck, to then uncover solutions to move forward.

Her new book, WorkLife Book Club Volume One takes you on a journey through the streets of Shoreditch, East London, as the members share culinary experiences, while discussing WorkLife struggles and successes through the wisdom found in the books they read.

Her WorkLife Book Club Case Studies embrace Learning Through Reading and applying those lessons to real-life situations. The series is a collection of stories inspired by real WorkLife struggles and successes and show how the wisdom found in the books they read helped the protagonists in the stories navigate through their challenging situation. 

The stories are presented as case studies for group discussion. The case and the recommended book are the required reading for each book club meeting and help to frame the subsequent discussion. 

The Art of WorkLife Storytelling is a series of e-books designed to help you find, develop and tell the right story at the right time in all WorkLife situations – in day-to-day communication: WorkLife and feedback conversations, presentations, talks, and negotiations, at interviews, and when socialising and networking in building and maintaining good relationships. You will learn to tell the stories that express who you are in an interesting and engaging way.