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How to create your own self confidence and happiness

18-Dec-2008, Number 232

Written and published by Rachel Green.
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In this edition:

1. Happy Christmas greetings and news.
   
2. The TWELVE TIPS FOR CHRISTMAS: How to create your own self confidence and happiness.
3. More new tips on celebrating birthdays, and preparing speeches.
4. One-off offer: Buy a CD worth $55 for only $10. Never been done before!
5. Laugh your socks off.
   

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1. Happy Christmas greetings and news.

Happy Christmas. I hope that your days will be filled with happiness and confidence. If you wish for something, don't wait for others to make it happen, you can be in control and direct yourself to achieving your dreams. If you want to be happy this Christmas, don't think that a present from someone else will be the answer. Happiness is already inside you and yours for the taking. We create our own happiness.

This is going to be a shorter newsletter this Christmas, as I know how busy you are. I will simply give 12 short tips on how to create your own self confidence and happiness. Read and practise a tip a day over the new year and Xmas break and get 2009 off to a great start.

Welcome to all our new readers from around the world, including this fortnight 42 new readers from UK, Australia and the USA. The winner this fortnight, of a f.r.e.e. E-book from our range, is diannetumock from Australia. If this is you, please contact us to claim your prize by Saturday, 20th December 2008:

I am presenting an evening speech and a full day workshop on SPARKLING WITH CONFIDENCE as part of UWA's Summer School programme, in Perth, Western Australia: Friday January 30th 2009, 7pm - 9pm; and Saturday 31st January 2009, 10am - 4pm. Come to one or both. It's a RARE OPPORTUNITY to hear me speak and to participate in one of my workshops in PERTH.

Bookings filling fast - get your seat now. Bring a group along as five people can book in for the price of 4. Great Xmas present!

Bookings: (+61 8) 6488 2433 or or enrol online.

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2. The TWELVE TIPS FOR CHRISTMAS: How to create your own self confidence and happiness.

	Tip 1: What you focus on makes a difference. What are you focusing on?
	Tip 2: Your attitude towards your life and everything around you makes the difference between contentment and dissatisfaction. Is your attitude negative or positive?
	Tip 3: Developing gratitude for what you do have instead of focusing on what you don't have, is a source of great happiness. List 10 things to be thankful for.
	Tip 4. Kindness can lead to confidence. When you are kind to someone you can feel good. When you feel good your confidence increases. Who will you be kind to today?
	Tip 5. Look at the problems others have. If you feel miserable or are thinking badly of yourself, ask yourself, "Would you rather be living in Iraq or where you are?" Always keep your own problems in perspective for greater happiness.
	Tip 6. Say thank you. Thank the people around you for the kind things they do for you. It doesn't have to be a big thing, they may just have made you a cup of tea or called you. Give thanks. Write down ten things you can thank people for today.
	Tip 7. Generosity without expecting anything in return can lead to confidence. When you are generous to someone you can feel good. When you feel good your confidence increases. Who will you be generous to today?
	Tip 8. Think kindly of yourself. What you think can knock your confidence or increase it. Write down 5 things you have done well today.
	Tip 9. Praise someone. Look at people and find something nice to say about them. Have this as your focus. When you find something good about them tell them. When you bring pleasure to someone else your confidence is being nourished too.
	Tip 10. Change your feelings don't just give into them. If you feel down, or discouraged or inadequate shift your feelings. They don't have to control you. Recall and relive some positive happy times so your confidence returns and you feel better.
	Tip 11. Giving to people who are less well off than you are can help you appreciate how lucky you really are. When you feel lucky your confidence and happiness grow. Who will you give to today?
	Tip 12. Create peace and quiet inside. Find a place to simply sit and be. Stop the rushing. Quit from being busy. Just be. It is only in silence we can truly hear the wisdom that is within each of us.

Create the causes for your own confidence and happiness. Let no-one take them away from you. May joy be in your heart throughout 2009 and may you be confident.

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3. More new tips on birthdays and speeches.

Each month new tips are placed on our page of Personal Development Tips and Articles.

Click on the links to read three of the newest ones:

1. 40th Birthday: Ten tips for 40th birthday parties.
   
2. 40th birthday: Eleven tips for 40th birthday presents.
   
3. Five key steps for preparing a good speech.
   

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4. More ways to have a happy marriage.

"A successful marriage: How to have a long and happy marriage and overcome the problems," by Rachel and Mike Green.


As our Christmas gift to you, for TWO DAYS ONLY, only $10, save $45.
Would you like to know how to have a long and happy marriage/relationship? Would you like some practical ways to lessen your differences and increase your love? You can. Amidst all the failed celebrity marriages we see, and the marriage advice that is too theoretical to apply, here is something different, something you can trust. Mike and I have been brave enough to invite you behind the scenes of our 33 year marriage to hear an unscripted conversation about what makes it work and what we get up to. And it isn't necessarily what you'd expect! It's a real view, of a real marriage as it's never been heard before.

At times funny, at others heartfelt, but always sincere - this is marriage advice you can use and apply to your relationship - whether marriage or defacto.

As our Christmas gift to you, for TWO DAYS ONLY, if you buy these CDs on the website no later than 20th December 2008, then these CDs, worth $55 will be yours for only $10.

To be eligible for the special offer you must order through our On-line Book and CD store and click newsletter when it asks you where you heard about the CDs. Don't miss out - hurry as this offer closes, 20th December 2008. This offer is ONLY available to CONFIDENCE 4 U Readers. Click here to order.

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5. Laugh your socks off.

Thanks to our Confidence 4 U reader Angelee Deodhar, from India, for this fortnight's joke.

Citizenship.

A young man comes before a customs agent.
A: "State your citizenship."
B: "American" (pronounced with a Spanish accent).
A: "Hold on there, buddy. Say that again."
B: "I sed American."
A: "I'm going to give you a test."
B: "No, no senor, no need for test, I tell you I"m American."
A: "Yeah, sure buddy. OK, let's see, ... I've got it. Make a sentence with the following colors: green, pink and yellow."
B: "Oh senor, I tell you I'm American. But OK, let's see. I was at my bruder-in-law's house and the phone went green, green, I pinked it up and sed yellow!"

If you have some clean jokes we can use, please send your contributions to

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The next newsletter will be towards the end of January as I am taking time off to get my new E-book on confidence finished.

I wish you happiness and self confidence in abundance over the Christmas and New Year break and I look forward to being with you again in January 2009.
With kindness,
Rachel.

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Further information for you

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Disclaimer: The information in this magazine is of a general nature and may not suit everyone or every situation. While every care has been taken to ensure it is useful and appropriate, no responsibility can be taken for the results gained from its implementation. Please seek individual professional guidance for any difficulties you may have with your confidence, relationships, marriage, presentations, managing people, work, health, communication or emotions. Thank you.