Stop Checking Your Likes: Shake Off the Need for Approval and Live an Incredible Life

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New World Library, Apr 7, 2020 - Self-Help - 272 pages
Your freedom’s knocking. Are you ready?

Millions of us waste huge chunks of our days checking our phones and devices, looking for just one more thumbs-up or red heart. It’s the modern measurement of how accepted, wanted, or valued we seem to be. Susie Moore is going to help you shake off the need for that hollow approval and live the incredible, confident life you were meant to live. It’s time to proclaim and celebrate your talents, fend off naysayers, and live your life with magnetism and unshakable self-confidence.

Here’s the rub: A perfect life doesn’t exist. Those perfectly tanned people sailing in Ibiza have problems just like you. But what Susie Moore has learned (and will show you) is that truly successful and self-assured people have something in common: They are willing to experience “failure” without getting bummed out or overwhelmed. They simply build up from it. On the path to satisfying your deep, personal desires, when things go wrong or feel off (and they will), you can always ask not what’s wrong, but what’s missing, because what’s missing can be found. In fact, it’s waiting and wanting to be found. In Stop Checking Your Likes, you’ll learn how to break free of the outside “approval traps” and focus on nourishing and loving yourself. Stop checking your likes and find your purpose and your power. Fast.
 

Contents

Introduction Broken Dreams
1
Chapter one Your Parents Effed You UpGo for It Anyway
9
Chapter Two No One Else Knows What Theyre Doing Either
23
Chapter Three How to Always End Up on Top
41
Chapter Four So What?
59
Chapter Five Love Yourself Especially When You Dont Deserve It
77
Chapter Six Its Okay If People Dont Like You
93
Chapter Seven See the World through ComedyColored Glasses
109
Chapter Eleven Fall Madly in Love with Rejection
181
Chapter Twelve Ask
197
Chapter Thirteen Let It Be Easy
209
Chapter Fourteen Youre Going to Be Okay
225
Bonus Chapter Because You Always Deserve More Good Things
237
Appendix Master the PayRaise Script
243
Acknowledgments
251
Notes
253

Chapter Eight Second Opinions Arent Better Than Your First Feeling
127
Chapter Nine Ask Whats Missing?
141
Its Your Fault
157
About the Author
259
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A former sales director and adviser for start-ups in Silicon Valley and New York, Susie Moore is a life coach and advice columnist for some of the world’s biggest media outlets. Her work has been featured in Business Insider, Forbes, Entrepreneur, Marie Claire, the Huffington Post, and on Today and Oprah.com. A native of England, she now lives and works in Miami.

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