Confidence Your Secret Weapon is a personal development guide that provides readers with the tools they need to improve confidence, develop high self-esteem, and set goals to achieve their dreams. Ashley Korin McLean shares the concepts, skills and techniques that helped transform her from a timid and shy teenager, to a successful entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker.
Confidence Your Secret Weapon delivers basic exercises designed to help instigate confidence building tactics and methodologies that can be utilized in everyday life. Confidence Your Secret Weapon will help readers form a healthy and self-assured thought process, and to recognize that confidence is a never ending journey, where there is always room for growth and improvement.
"Ashley identifies characteristics of resilience such as optimism, the ability to regulate one’s emotions, and the capacity to see failure as a form of helpful feedback. The language is simple to understand. Journal exercises and questions, which stimulate self-reflection, are provided in the text. I recommend Confidence Your Secret Weapon for anyone who would like to build or rebuild confidence and self-esteem."
"Teens (and many an adult reader) who wish to incorporate more confidence into their approaches to life - and who are willing to follow the techniques that will bring them to ultimate success - will find Confidence Your Secret Weapon a real, unique winner."
"When I started reading Confidence Your Secret Weapon, I thought of studying yet another 'claim your success' self-help guide. Ashley Korin McLean's intentions are to provide hands-on questions and answers to let her readers take a couple of first steps to improve their self-esteem, avoid negative thoughts and develop self-confidence. Success is not made or enforced, failures will come. We all make mistakes, and have to apply coping mechanisms. Positive thinking without action is useless."
