BEING HAPPY: A HANDBOOK TO GREATER CONFIDENCE AND SECURITY by Andrew Matthews

This book offers ideas to improve our self-image, because our self image determines how much we like living in the world and exactly how much we will accomplish in life.

To boost the way you feel about yourself, you need to:

1) Accept compliments.  Say thank you to a compliment, we don't have to be perfect to accept a compliment with a graceful thank you.

2) Give compliments.

3) Always speak well of yourself.

4) Praise yourself when you do something right.

5) Separate your behavior from yourself.  If you do something silly, it doesn't make you a bad person, you simply made a mistake.

6) Treat your body well.  Think healthy, happy thoughts.  The "disease of the mind" becomes the "disease of the body".

7) Let people know how you expect to be treated.

8) Get around good people.  If you are serious about changing your life, get serious about changing what sorrounds you.

9) Read books which give you ideas and inspirations.

Remember:
"Today's efforts create tomorrow's results.  Whatever you will be experiencing in your next ten or twenty years will be influenced by what you do today."