You Got This: Face Your Fear. Find Your Confidence.

Journalist and author Caroline Foran returns with her unique, down-to-earth style, sharing her essential toolkit for improved self-confidence. Her goal? To take our inner fears and anxieties that hold us back from pursuing our goals and turn them into confidence. Many of us lack the self-confidence necessary to pursue our own definition of success, while our fears stand in the way. We spend so much time trying not to feel the anxiety or fear that goes along with stepping outside of our comfort zone. But that anxiety isn’t going anywhere, and trying to avoid it is only going to make us feel worse. Only by learning to work with the fear of failure will we begin the process of instilling confidence. Caroline brings us through an exploration of what fear is—for example, the difference between perceived fear and the fear we experience when frightened, why we fear failure, and how fear works in our brains. She looks at what confidence is— and courage too—and why perfectionism can be a major roadblock on the road to achieving confidence. Then, she presents an accessible confidence toolkit, with strategies such as “fear hacking” and “sidestepping,” to arm you with everything you need to be your most confident self. You Got This is jam-packed with practical advice and expert input, along with the author’s signature sense of humor. This book won’t teach you how to become completely fearless. Instead, you’ll learn how you can employ techniques to build your confidence, to own your fears and anxieties—to bring you one step closer to achieving what you want in life.