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Self-Esteem & Peak Performance
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First published June 1, 1990
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Jack Canfield
1,293 books1,755 followersJack Canfield is an American motivational speaker and author. He is best known as the co-creator of the "Chicken Soup for the Soul" book series, which currently has over 124 titles and 100 million copies in print in over 47 languages. According to USA Today, Canfield and his writing partner, Mark Victor Hansen, were the top-selling authors in the United States in 1997.
Canfield received a BA in Chinese History from Harvard University and a Masters from University of Massachusetts. He has worked as a teacher, a workshop facilitator, and a psychotherapist.
Canfield is the founder of "Self Esteem Seminars" in Santa Barbara, and "The Foundation for Self Esteem" in Culver City, California. The stated mission of Self Esteem Seminars is to train entrepreneurs, educators, corporate leaders and employees to achieve their personal and professional goals. The focus of The Foundation for Self Esteem is to train social workers, welfare recipients and human resource professionals.
In 1990,he shared with author Mark Victor Hansen his idea for the Chicken Soup for the Soul series. After three years, the two had compiled sixty-eight stories.
Canfield has appeared on numerous television shows, including Good Morning America, 20/20, Eye to Eye, CNN's Talk Back Live, PBS, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Montel Williams Show, Larry King Live and the BBC.
Canfield's most recent book, The Success Principles (2005), shares 64 principles that he claims can make people more successful. In 2006, he appeared in the DVD, "The Secret," and shared his insights on the Law of Attraction and tips for achieving success in personal and professional life.
Jack Canfield was born on August 19, 1944, in Fort Worth, TX. He is the son of Elmer and Ellen (a homemaker; maiden name, Taylor). He attended high school at Linsly Military Institute, Wheeling, WV, 1962. He went to college at Harvard University, B.A., 1966; University of Massachusetts at Amherst, M.Ed., 1973. Canfield married Judith Ohlbaum in 1971 (divorced, November 1976); he married Georgia Lee Noble on September 9, 1978 (divorced, December 1999); he married Inga Marie Mahoney on July 4, 2001; children: (first marriage) Oran, David, Kyle, Dania; (second marriage) Christopher Noble. He is a Democrat and a Christian, and his hobbies include tennis, travel, skiing, running, billiards, reading, and guitar.
Canfield received a BA in Chinese History from Harvard University and a Masters from University of Massachusetts. He has worked as a teacher, a workshop facilitator, and a psychotherapist.
Canfield is the founder of "Self Esteem Seminars" in Santa Barbara, and "The Foundation for Self Esteem" in Culver City, California. The stated mission of Self Esteem Seminars is to train entrepreneurs, educators, corporate leaders and employees to achieve their personal and professional goals. The focus of The Foundation for Self Esteem is to train social workers, welfare recipients and human resource professionals.
In 1990,he shared with author Mark Victor Hansen his idea for the Chicken Soup for the Soul series. After three years, the two had compiled sixty-eight stories.
Canfield has appeared on numerous television shows, including Good Morning America, 20/20, Eye to Eye, CNN's Talk Back Live, PBS, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Montel Williams Show, Larry King Live and the BBC.
Canfield's most recent book, The Success Principles (2005), shares 64 principles that he claims can make people more successful. In 2006, he appeared in the DVD, "The Secret," and shared his insights on the Law of Attraction and tips for achieving success in personal and professional life.
Jack Canfield was born on August 19, 1944, in Fort Worth, TX. He is the son of Elmer and Ellen (a homemaker; maiden name, Taylor). He attended high school at Linsly Military Institute, Wheeling, WV, 1962. He went to college at Harvard University, B.A., 1966; University of Massachusetts at Amherst, M.Ed., 1973. Canfield married Judith Ohlbaum in 1971 (divorced, November 1976); he married Georgia Lee Noble on September 9, 1978 (divorced, December 1999); he married Inga Marie Mahoney on July 4, 2001; children: (first marriage) Oran, David, Kyle, Dania; (second marriage) Christopher Noble. He is a Democrat and a Christian, and his hobbies include tennis, travel, skiing, running, billiards, reading, and guitar.
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February 22, 2015
Concise and highly useful. Some info:
Six signals that your self~esteem is slipping:
1. Dropping your exercise program (you take care of things you value)
2. Dropping out of your friend/support group
3. Increase of couch potato~hood
4. Eating becomes the main thing
5. Sexuality is out of whack
Depression means you're pressing down energy that wants to be expressed... usually it's anger or hurt. When you don't move, energy gets stuck. Just like [how water pools when it's stagnant], the same thing happens in your body. When energy doesn't move, it circles in on itself, and you get in this downward cycle. Anything that's action~oriented will take you outside of yourself .
Also, be of service to someone else. It lifts focus off you and onto someone else.
Learn how to express those feelings in way that doesn't hurt you, or other people.
There's a natural grieving that goes on when you lose something. It happens, there's an intense peak, then it calms down, then it's gone. Children will scream wildly, then it's all gone. Adults try to hold it all in, and don't just let it out.
If you find that a negative feeling is hanging around for a long time, it's usually caused by a false belief. You need to change your thinking.
Self~esteem does not mean feeling good all the time. Self~esteem means loving yourself even when you feel badly, when you make a mistake. You accept yourself fully ; your emotions are a part of you.
"Every negative event holds within in it the seed of an equal or greater benefit." ~ W.C. Clement
Questions to ask yourself when you're off~key:
What is the limiting belief I currently hold viz. this situation ?
How would I rather be?
What would it look like?
How would I feel?
Underneath all anger, there's fear. Usually the fear is unfounded. People who have a short fuse usually have a lot of unexpressed anger from the past, from their childhood, where they got limited at.
Six signals that your self~esteem is slipping:
1. Dropping your exercise program (you take care of things you value)
2. Dropping out of your friend/support group
3. Increase of couch potato~hood
4. Eating becomes the main thing
5. Sexuality is out of whack
Depression means you're pressing down energy that wants to be expressed... usually it's anger or hurt. When you don't move, energy gets stuck. Just like [how water pools when it's stagnant], the same thing happens in your body. When energy doesn't move, it circles in on itself, and you get in this downward cycle. Anything that's action~oriented will take you outside of yourself .
Also, be of service to someone else. It lifts focus off you and onto someone else.
Learn how to express those feelings in way that doesn't hurt you, or other people.
There's a natural grieving that goes on when you lose something. It happens, there's an intense peak, then it calms down, then it's gone. Children will scream wildly, then it's all gone. Adults try to hold it all in, and don't just let it out.
If you find that a negative feeling is hanging around for a long time, it's usually caused by a false belief. You need to change your thinking.
Self~esteem does not mean feeling good all the time. Self~esteem means loving yourself even when you feel badly, when you make a mistake. You accept yourself fully ; your emotions are a part of you.
"Every negative event holds within in it the seed of an equal or greater benefit." ~ W.C. Clement
Questions to ask yourself when you're off~key:
What is the limiting belief I currently hold viz. this situation ?
How would I rather be?
What would it look like?
How would I feel?
Underneath all anger, there's fear. Usually the fear is unfounded. People who have a short fuse usually have a lot of unexpressed anger from the past, from their childhood, where they got limited at.
August 7, 2023
Totally delightful. Many audio programs advise the listener to listen to it several times. This one I might actually want to do that.
May 21, 2012
I found many good tips on how to become more positive and the good thing is his voice reflects the kindness that some other positive thinkers lack (i.e. Kevin Trudeau). It raises above the average in that respect, even though in the field of the ideas, it is similar to the others. Valuable listening tool. I would recommend it highly.
January 15, 2008
No matter what you do or say to me, I'm still a worthwhile person! Great motivational/self esteem audio program. I've listened to it many times
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May 2, 2017
This is an interview style audiobook where an audience asks Canfield about various issues and he explains using his own life experience. Its reinforces the message of good self esteem. The audio book is simple and has a very realistic view of esteem in dealing with yourself and others.
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