Unstoppable Confidence

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Summary: VERY OLD STUFF, no new ideas
Review: Alright, no complicated report here. Only a brief summary of what encouraged me through this book. If you like an author who has good recommendations and makes an honest attempt to share them with readers then this guide should serve you well. If not, maybe a doctor whose words of advice ultimately get `shrunk` into a pharmacy container and provide security for stem pills might preserve your discretion best after all...

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Summary: A fabulous practical guide to improving self confidence.
Review: Finally, a book that has it all.
This is the first book I read that combines the theory of how to improve confidence, techniques to remove confidence blocks on the subconsious level, and practical exercises to improve the confidence in the everyday life. (After all, practice makes perfect)...
This is the first book I encountered that has it all.
My advice to you - don't buy any other books before you read this one...

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Summary: VERY OLD STUFF, no new ideas
Review: First, excuse my spelling: english is not my first laguage.
Kent Sayre's book is a very, very, very basic introduction to
"classic" NLP change work. Very old stuff.
All the exercises are the most common, and old-fashioned
NLP drills. In this book you will found excersice like: "Circle of Excellence" (oh, no, not again!!!), "Behaviour Generator" (uffff...), kinestetic anchoring (old an useless "push button" anchoring, you'll not see anything abount Sliding Anchors in this book), "Personal History Change", and so on.
My suggestion is: if you don't know ANYTHING about NLP,THEN the book is a good introduction and you maybe could get something of value from it.
BUT, if you know the something about NLP... even the most basic stuff... Don't waste your money... you will not find anything new or improved.
Instead, if you want a really POWERFULL way of remove all your shyness and hesitation, I recomend you buy the 3D Mind videos of Tom Vizzini.

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Summary: Not Bad, Could be better but it's a decent book
Review: I happened to stumble across an ad for Kent Sayre's book to help shy people. I clicked the link to his web page, I am glad I did. After reading his introduction about his life, it seemed like he was writing about me, I knew I had to get this book. I think the best thing about this book is that people who are shy now know that they are not alone out there with these thoughts and fears. I really appreciated Kent's relatable writting style, it seems that he wrote this with the understanding of who was going to read this and didn't over-whelm us, he just gave us the information we can use to help us get unstoppable confidence. One of the best books out there for all of us to read, I rate it right up there with the classics How to Win Friends and Influence People, The Magic of Thinking Big, ect.... Thanks Kent!!!

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Summary: Expand Your Comfort Zone
Review: Of all the books I have read on self-help topics, this one seemed to contain ideas that not only made complete sense, the author could have only penned this book once he had gained a calm, quiet and powerful presence. You can literally hear his voice and see the change in his life in his writing.

He goes from a person who literally felt he did not have the ability to really connect with other people at a deep level (he escapes by burying himself in books) to teaching classes on how to be confident. In the process he learns about his inner desires, how to gain what he really wants out of life and how to give what he has learned to the world in this amazing book.

So much of what he said made complete sense. Especially the part where he notes how people who are living the lives of their dreams, are doing so by design. They have learned to release themselves from disempowered language (try, should, etc.) and have embraced fast forward phrases (I absolutely can, I certainly will, It definitely will happen.) The reason it works is because confidence causes your dreams to come true. You set in motion a magical series of events that naturally will lead you to your goal.

Today when my husband used the word: "try" in a sentence, alarms went off. Not only did I completely see how this book could change a life, it was already being put in action in my own mind as I asked him to say "will." In that way, he "would" reach his goal and be more determined. Had I not read this book, I can't say I would have even blinked!

"You realize that anything in your path that seems like an obstacle or a detour really is an opportunity in disguise to show your resourcefulness." -pg. 6

The author has based some of the material on Neuro-Liguistic Programming (NLP). This is the study of how language, both verbal and nonverbal, affects our minds. First, he describes his own struggle with shyness and then dives right into how others can learn from his experience and learn to speak the language of confidence.

Each chapter begins with an inspirational quote and bold headings direct you through the information in a lovely organized fashion. A "free offer" is included and you can not only subscribe to the free confidence 7-day e-course, you are also entitled to describe your biggest Confidence Challenge and receive a personal response from the author. I have never seen an offer like this and it truly shows the author cares about his readers. I was very impressed! This book could not have been published at a more appropriate time.

Invest in Yourself!

"Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward! -Thomas A. Edison

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Summary: Don't get this book if you want to stay stuck where you are!
Review: Sayre talks about "expanding your comfort zone" to include things you used to think impossible for you and this book will do just that -- his auctorial voice here is so, well, _confident_ that you, the reader, can have unstoppable confidence and tremendous success, it's impossible to not get caught up in that belief. And as you do the exercises, and feel and experience the results for yourself, you'll only be more sure.

The sheer density of this book in terms of useful information per page is amazing. I've read a lot of self-help books, and all too often they only really have one or two ideas stretched out to book-length. Not here -- every page has ideas to challenge your previously-conceived limitations, or useful exercises or techniques. You'll probably laugh about how _simple_ the exercises are for their power. One in particular that shocked me was how moving your attention changes your voice's tonality -- I'll never again think the same about how I speak.

As I look forward to 2002, I'm grateful to encounter this book now to remind me of the importance of setting specific goals and to expand my sense of possibility for what they can be. Don't wait for another new year to do the same!

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Summary: Not Bad, Could be better but it's a decent book
Review: Unstoppable Confidence has some good points. 1-The author emphasizes that you have to do something to get confidence, you have to work at it. 2-The author gives examples of how confident people view situations, this is one of the best things about the book, knowing how confident people think it is the key to understanding how to view situations confidently yourself.
I didn't care for the NLP exercises(swishing, mirroring, working with submodalities, etc.) For those that like NLP this will be a strength of the book. I like straight-forward commonsene approaches not "secret" magic methods. Nonetheless it is a good book, one of the best confidence books I have read. I think the Ultimate Confidence book would go in depth explaining how confident people view things and give numerous examples of how confident people handles situations. And this book wouldn't have any NEW AGE "secret" methods, just straight forward common sense.