Self Matters

Your life has a root core that once understood unlocks a
powerful force to create your life the way it was meant to
be the way you want and need it to be. Key questions and
an amazingly clear map are now at your fingertips to begin
your journey to Live by Design. These are questions that
with the help of this book you can answer and bring into
action-oriented focus: What are the ten most defining
moments of your life? What are the seven most critical
choices you have made to put you on your current path? Who
are the five most pivotal people in your world and how
have they shaped you? Identifying and working with these
key elements are at the heart of Dr. Phillip C. McGraws
latest work Self Matters and soon they will be at the
heart of your own new work: you. Through his books McGraw
has changed the lives of millions. In introducing the
world to his matter-of-fact tell-it-like-it-is philosophy
of life Dr. Phil as he is known to his legions of fans has
put an end to the everyones a victim attitude that had
taken hold of our culture. Published in over twenty-five
countries and with millions of books sold his two number
one bestsellers Life Strategies and Relationship Rescue
forced readers to take a serious look at the excuses they
had so long been clinging to as to why they were not happy
not successful and not enjoying their one chance at
living. Now Dr. Phil takes those lessons a great leap
further and explores one of the most challenging questions
facing us all: When you look in the mirror who is truly
hiding beneath that face? Instead of taking a surface look
at the way we live our lives Dr. Phil demystifies how your
self-concept came to be and gives a nuts-and-bolts
approach to creating a new plan for living and in turn for
discovering the real you. In this groundbreaking work Dr.
Phil challenges you to find your authentic self-that
person you once were before life took its toll. It is you
at your greatest most fulfilled most real moment. It is
the person you have always wanted to be but were too
distracted busy or scared to become. Instead you have
created a fictional self-taking on the identity of who you
believe you are supposed be the person people tell you you
are. The incongruence between these two selves is what
leads you to feel that your life is incomplete unbalanced
and altogether more difficult than it really should be.
The good news is it no longer needs to be that way. By
using the plan set forth in Self Matters Dr. Phil helps
you to demystify your self-concept and learn how to
reclaim your authentic self. In evaluating your life by
only the facts you can learn to think beyond the excuses
and fears that have masked the person you have always
wanted to be. Self Matters is one of the most
forward-thinking works on self-concept and self-esteem
ever published. For the first time an author tells it how
it is and in the process teaches us all how to live the
lives we have always wanted but prevented ourselves from
living. We get only one chance in this world and now Dr.
Phil shows all how to make the most of it.