Banish Your Inner Critic

Silence the Voice of Self-Doubt to Unleash Your Creativity and Do Your Best Work

Denise Jacobs

• Publisher: Mango
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781633534728
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Creativity

Silence the Voice of Self Doubt

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Are you ready to boost your personal productivity — minus the fear and loathing? Are you ready to Banish Your Inner Critic and unleash the creative ideas and personal productivity within you? Help is on the way!

Blocking your great creative ideas: Everybody has one, an inner critic that tells you that others have more talent, you're just faking it, and that you'll never have those great creative ideas that seem just out of reach. This inner critic is a subconscious deterrent that stands between the seeds of great creative ideas and the fruits of achievement. It afflicts us with a mental block as deadlines approach, makes us so afraid of being judged that we hold ourselves back and don't share our expertise, forces us to question our ability to learn ideas and technologies quickly; and makes us doubt, discount, and kill our ideas before they see the light of day.

Open up a world of creative ideas: Denise Jacobs is a Speaker, Author and Creativity Evangelist who speaks at web conferences and consults with tech companies worldwide. As the Founder and Chief Creativity Evangelist of "The Creative Dose", she teaches techniques to make the creative process more fluid, methods for making work environments more conducive to personal productivity, and practices for sparking innovation. Now, in her book, Banish Your Inner Critic, Denise Jacobs shows you how to defeat those barriers that are holding you back and achieve success through a positive mental attitude.

Banish Your Inner Critic shows you how to move beyond that mental block to your creative ideas, realize instant relief and lasting insight, and:

• Master 3 powerful practices that will transform how you relate to yourself and your creativity forever

• Overcome the fear of not knowing enough or not being original enough

• Conquer Imposter Syndrome

• Free yourself from comparisons, overwhelm, high self criticism and self sabotage

• Transform your self talk into a tool for success

• Generate more creative ideas than ever before

• Embrace your expertise and share your brilliance with the world

How to be creative and achieve success through a positive mental attitude: We all have an inner critic who says you're just faking it, that others have more talent, that you'll never be a success. In Banish Your Inner Critic, widely respected keynote speaker Denise Jacobs uncovers the subconscious deterrents or creative blocks that stand between the seeds of great creative ideas and a successful you. Jacob's guidebook shows you how to clear out mental clutter so that your brilliant and creative ideas can shine through.

Perfectionism and rationalization: Does your Inner Critic show up as a fear of being judged, perfectionism, self doubt, self sabotage, or another mental block to success? The trick is to recognize the inner critic and the different ways it manifests, and then have specific tools to deal with each negative inner critic resistance to success.

How to make the latest in neuroscience work for you: Say goodbye to creative blocks and deadline panic with practical, effective tools you can start using immediately! Drawing on the latest in neuroscience, mindfulness practices, and productivity research; these game-changing exercises help you overcome self doubt, get into the creative zone, and reach new levels of success. Personal productivity is our goal. It's time to dismiss your inner critic and do the kick-ass work you're capable of doing.

In this book you will learn how to:

• Identify and quiet the negative voice in your head (aka your Inner Critic)

• Disarm perfectionism

• Conquer Imposter Syndrome

• Free yourself from anxiety and the feeling of being overwhelmed

• Overcome self sabotage

• Make the creative process more productive and fun again

Calling on neuroscience, psychology, mindfulness principles, and self-compassion research, deftly blended with personal storytelling, Jacobs presents approachable and immediately applicable techniques for putting your Inner Critic in its place. Banish Your Inner Critic will help you make your creative process more fluid and develop practices to cultivate innovation. When your next creative idea sparks into being, you will be ready to nurture it into a dazzling light of success.

Banish your Inner Critic to start doing your best work, achieving excellence, and contributing meaningfully to the world!

Table of contents

• Table of Contents
• Chapter 1 | Why Banish the Inner Critic?
• Chapter 2 | Take Back Your Creative Power
• Chapter 3 | “People Will Think My Work Is Dumb” - Judgment Dread
• Chapter 4 | “Nothing I Do Is Any Good” - High Self-Criticism
• Chapter 5 | “I’m Not Good Enough”- Deficiency Anxieties
• Chapter 6 | “I’m Not As Creative As Everyone Else”- Comparison Syndrome
• Chapter 7 | “I’m NotCreative” - Creativity Denial
• Chapter 8 | Step Into Your Creative Power