Introduction: The Invitation
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
~ Mark Twain
The fastest and surest way to support you in freeing your magnetic potential and creative outcomes so that you can attract the great relationships you deserve and express your talents and your message boldly and authentically, is to gift you resources to provide the wind under your wings to ensure you fly. That is the reason I created your Hot Confidence Workbook and the raft of audios and videos accompanying Hot Confidence: Conscious Pathways to Take You from Mini-Me to Magnificent.
As you discover more of yourself and transform as a result of working through your Hot Confidence Workbook, your essential companion to Hot Confidence, I know you will literally soar to dizzying heights and surpass the outstanding expectations you have for yourself in this moment. I’m excited for you!
There is inspiration and motivation to be found in the reading of a book. A book falling into your lap at precisely the right moment has the power to transform your life—yet only if you choose to let it. It is what you do with the knowledge, ideas, and concepts you’re acquiring that matters. The renowned inventor Charles F. Kettering’s words often ring in my ears: “Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on anything sitting down.”
You can’t fall into Hot Confidence and sizzling self-esteem without taking action to seek it, find it, and cultivate it. In doing so you are ensuring that by putting the system in practice you become competent, and in developing that competence your old fearful feelings that stopped you moving forward, become distant strangers. You’ll find, by following the exercises in your Hot Confidence Workbook, that you are able to share more of your talents, message, and love with the world each day!
As you apply the practices in these pages and your self-worth grows, you have every chance of becoming the most positive, productive, enthusiastic, decisive, and attractive person you know. Your relationships, opportunities, and finances will thrive as you switch your self-doubt into glowing confidence. It is worth the effort you are about to put in!
Hot Confidence provides you with a roadmap to resilient, rock-solid confidence. Your Hot Confidence Workbook gives you the comprehensive, easy-to-follow coaching you need to enable you to access, explore, and appreciate the insights, choices, and opportunities along your route to positive transformation.
The proven, life-changing system in your Hot Confidence Workbook incorporates ancient yogic knowledge with cutting-edge findings from Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), positive psychology, and powerful coaching techniques. You’ll experience a blend of best practices from East and West, seasoned with over a quarter-century of dedicated experience I have in helping people find their unique voice. If you have the discipline and drive to work through your Hot Confidence Workbook thoroughly and apply your self-discoveries, this guide, in conjunction with Hot Confidence: Conscious Pathways to Take You from Mini-Me to Magnificent, will help you become bold in self-expression for passion, wealth-creation, and giving.
If you would like to:
• Do something different with your life, but lack the confidence to make the break
• Find alternate ways of dealing with stress
• Feel more valued
• Find ways to apply your intelligence, skills, life experiences, and abilities
• Tap into your fullest potential
• Free yourself from self-doubt
• Raise your self-esteem
• Have the confidence to apply your knowledge
• Let go forever of not feeling good enough
• Ditch the fear of not getting it right, for good
…then apply yourself to the exercises in this handbook, listen actively to the audios, watch the videos, and return to the chapters of Hot Confidence often. It is not by chance that you have come across this winning formula. It is a step-by-step, thorough program that will help you transform your life. It’s your launch pad to the self-confidence you deserve, attracting the relationships and opportunities you dream of!
On a personal note, all of the exercises, practices, and methods in your Hot Confidence Workbook have been thoroughly fine-tuned for you through firsthand knowledge and experience. These are the formulae I apply to my life. They constitute the blueprint of my own transformation from mini-me to magnificent. I have been so frozen by doubt and fear that one time, for example, I lost all sense of direction and did not know where I was or who I was as I stood shivering just a few meters from my home. The one thing I know best in life is how to transform deadening self-doubt into dreams-come-true.
All of my twenty-five years in the personal development and wellness industry—the knowledge gained; the awards, prizes, and degrees; and the experiences I gained through rebuilding my life from scratch each time in the college of hard knocks—only have value if they can be of service in delivering your fast-track formula to Hot Confidence so that you can live into your magnetic potential and thus create your difference in the world.
Reminders as You Set Out
Self-esteem and confidence levels are shaped by past experience, past influences, and our conditioning. The most significant of the three developmental periods described by sociologist Morris Massey is the “imprint period,” which is up until age seven.
During these years you were shaped, taking on beliefs, values, and attitudes that steer the course of your life. Your Hot Confidence Workbook, along with Hot Confidence: Conscious Pathways to Take You from Mini-Me to Magnificent, will help you make healthy, conscious changes so that you do not continue to chart your course through life based on the impulses, agreements, values, beliefs, and conditioning of a child of seven or less!
It is a law of our universe that everything is energy. Your thoughts are energy. Your system is pure energy. The word system refers to your physical body as well as the energetic aspects of you that you may not see reflected in the mirror. Eastern traditions call this force field subtle body, also known as the aura. Self-esteem is an energy frequency, too.
Your understanding of your body’s subtle energy system will make sense of your blocks and the beliefs that bind you. You will gain new perspectives on how to take your next step toward manifesting your desired outcomes.