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Book SynopsisPraise for Be Yourself, Everyone Else is Already Taken Mike''s book is a wonderful expression of authenticity in actionclear, honest, instructive, and a passionate call to be your true Divine Self.
Cheryl Richardson, New York Times best-selling author, Take Time for Your Life
Mike Robbins provides a clear guide for intelligently and compassionately coming face-to-face with yourself and loving the person you meet. His five principles of authenticity teach us how to embrace and celebrate all aspects of who we are and what it means to be a spiritual being having a human incarnation.
Michael Bernard Beckwith, author, Spiritual Liberation
Be Yourself, Everyone Else is Already Taken is an empowering and refreshing book about how to be successful, real, and fulfilled in life. I highly recommend it.
Gay Hendricks, New York Times best-selling author, Five Wishes
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Trade Review
Robbins, the highly visible lantern-jawed motivational speaker/coach/author/guru (author of Focus on the Good Stuff), returns with a primer on authenticity: what it means, what it can do, and how to achieve it. A master of his craft, Robbins' guide is thorough, direct and carefully organized, with an understanding and enthusiastic voice. Beginning with the reasons we lose our authentic selves, Robbins enumerates the pressures to conform in family, school, religion, politics and the media, as well as the damaging messages we absorb, like "be a good boy," "calm down" and "shut up." Robbins explains how these pressures lead to self-criticism and fear, then how to overcome them through greater awareness and compassion for one's faults. With questions, exercises, action points and sound practices, Robbins provides a map to transforming fear, gaining self-knowledge and celebrating your authentic self, with a measured pace and a minimum of distraction (no sidebars, charts or breakout boxes). Readers looking for a positive, no-nonsense guide to self-actualization should find Robbins an ideal guide (Starred Review, Publishers Weekly)
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Part One Why It Can Be Hard to Be Authentic 21
1 Don’t Step Out of Line 23
2 I Can’t Say or Do That 51
Part Two The Five Principles of Authenticity 83
3 Principle 1: Know Yourself 85
4 Principle 2: Transform Your Fear 115
5 Principle 3: Express Yourself 141
6 Principle 4: Be Bold 173
7 Principle 5: Celebrate Who You Are 199
Part Three Authenticity in Action 221
8 Living Your Authentic Life 223
Resources 233
About the Author 237
