How to Get Out of Your Own Way: A Step-by-Step Guide for Conquering Self-Defeating Behavior and Achieving Your Goals

by Daniel G. Amen

Tired of losing and suspecting "you" are your own worst enemy? This is the book you ve been looking for! Full of expert, pragmatic advice for unraveling and breaking through self-defeating behavior, it uses a combination of interactive questionnaires and exercises to help you turn around your career, your relationships, and even your very own personality. This book shows you twenty-seven self-sabotaging characteristics, how your family background effects your career, how to escape negative patterns of the past, how to form positive personal and business relationships, the nine rules for defining success, and the importance of imagineering.

Discover who you really are and who you can become. Start making key decisions, great career moves, and dynamic everyday choices in your life!

You are the key to your own success."

Genres: Audiobook, Self Help, Nonfiction, Health, Psychology

1 pages, Audio CD

First published July 1, 2005

About the author

The Washington Post called Dr. Daniel Amen the most popular psychiatrist in America and Sharecare.com named him the web's most influential expert and advocate on mental health.
Daniel Amen is a life-long Christian and graduate of Oral Roberts University School of Medicine. He is a double board-certified psychiatrist and multiple NY Times bestselling author, with such blockbuster books as Change Your Brain, Change Your Life, Healing ADD, Change Your Brain, Change Your Body, and The Daniel Plan, co-authored by Pastor Rick Warren and Dr. Mark Hyman. In November 2016, he and his wife Tana published The Brain Warrior's Way.
Dr. Amen is the founder of Amen Clinics, which has 6 locations across the United States. Amen Clinics has the world's largest database of brain scans related to behavior, totaling more than 125,000 SPECT scans on patients from 111 countries.
Dr. Amen's research team has published more than 70 scientific articles on a wide variety of topics related to brain health. He is the lead researcher on the largest brain imaging study on active and retired NFL players and was a consultant on the movie Concussion starring Will Smith. In 2016, Discover Magazine named his brain imaging work for psychiatric diagnoses as one of the top 100 stories in all of science.
Dr. Amen has also hosted 11 national public television shows about the brain, which have aired more than 80,000 times across North America and raised more than 75 million dollars for stations.

You can connect with Dr. Amen on Facebook and Twitter

Reviews

[Margaret · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good resource for a freshman orientation class

[Julie · Rating 5 out of 5]

good practical applicable ideas. I want this in paper also

[Rebecca Ann Price · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’m just a fan of Amen and his books never disappoint because there is always new information and room for self discovery.

This books dives not only into the realm of career but so much further into personal, love & business relationships. It helps you navigates through events of the past that could affect the way you process success today.

Enjoy!

[Holly · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.75-4 stars. Many reminders and guidance that were golden. About 25% that didn’t apply to me or seemed ridiculous. Well worth the read for anyone wanting to get on track or get back on track.