Pushing Your Envelope: How Smart People Defeat Self-Doubt and Live With Bold Enthusiasm

Everyone sees you as successful and capable. You, however, explain away your accomplishments as due to luck, timing or good connections. Your inner voice declares: They all think I'm smarter than I really am! I feel like such a fraud! This version of chronic self-doubt that plagues high-achievers is called Impostor Syndrome. It causes people to discount their success and second-guess their abilities. Haunted by a fear of being unmasked as a fake, they remain beneath self-imposed limits, afraid of both success and failure. Some limits need to be pushed. Airplanes fly within limits called the operating envelope, the set of conditions where they are aerodynamically safe and stable. Sometimes they push the envelope and fly near and even beyond these limits. You, too, can push the envelope. Move beyond your imagined limits, beyond feeling like a fake. Replace the fear and anxiety with joy and excitement, and live with bold enthusiasm. Feel great about being great. This book contains simple strategies to hep you eliminate this fraud experience so you can defeat chronic self-doubt, and truly enjoy your success. Joyful living beyond your boundaries begins when you push YOUR envelope.