What Has "Self-Promotion" to Do With Getting Opportunities?

What many people don't realize is that achieving important goals 
requires your promoting yourself successfully. In turn, your promoting 
yourself successfully requires your being able to create opportunities  
for yourself.  

So ... if you want to achieve your goals, you have to create opportunities!

But that's not easy when you're self-conscious, shy, reluctant, or socially anxious.

Why? Because

- You are less likely to know that opportunities have to be created 
- You are less likely to be aware of what the process entails
- You are less likely to be aware of the raw material for those opportunities
- You are less likely to act on the materials and process.

Why Listen to Me on This?

I'm Dr. Signe A. Dayhoff, a social psychologist and self-presentation and self-promotion coach for 25 years. I'm best-selling author of Diagonally-Parked in a Parallel Universe: Working Through Social Anxiety, and creator of Speak Without Fear Small Talk E-Course.

I know from personal experience, as a former-22-year veteran of social anxiety, that when you're self-conscious, shy, reluctant, or socially anxious, you don't believe you can accomplish these things. You're focused internally, trying to keep others from negatively evaluating you, and doing little on which they can judge you.

You do it as a matter of self-protection. but it acts as a huge obstacle to your accomplishing what you want in your career and life. In order for you to achieve those desired goals, you have to change that focus. Only when you focus externally, can you promote yourself and create your own opportunities.

Because of my own internal focus, I floated for many years, not getting the jobs I wanted, not achieving relationships or other goals. I avoided talking with people who could help me. And when I did speak to them, I certainly never asked for their help.

As a result, I was frustrated, angry with myself, depressed, and wondered if I'd ever achieve anything I wanted, especially real satisfaction with myself.

But after flopping around for years like a fish out of water, I finally discovered a way I could reverse that socially anxious internal focus. It was quite an aha! I also figured out how to truly see my own worth and demonstrate it to others so they could value it as well. 

Not to sound grandiose, but it was a revelation to me. As a result, I've been able to become more the master of my destiny than I ever imagined possible. 

Promote Myself? I'd Rather Eat Worms! e-course is a step-by-step compilation of everything I've discovered. It's all you'll need to start yourself on the path to developing visibility and credibility to promote yourself to create opportunities. 

Written in a user-friendly manner with lots of case studies and examples to follow, it helps you comfortably and confidently develop that external focus. It shows you how to develop an awareness of all that's available to you.

Knowing what you want to accomplish, you can then choose what you think will help you. You can apply it as you see fit. You too can become the master of your goal-achievement destiny. 

Imagine what a wonderful discovery that would be!

But What Do You Mean by "Opportunities"?  

Opportunities are a combination of favorable circumstances that you can use to achieve your goals: your job, career, business, or relationship goals. They're all around you, all the time, everywhere. You simply have to know what you want to accomplish, know what resources you need, know what to look for, then actively access them.

Why Do You Need to Actively Seek Them? 

You need to actively access your potential opportunities because, unfortunately, opportunities don't seek you out. They don't knock on your door. They don't just drop into your lap. 

You have to act to seek them out. You do this starting with an acceptance of the fact that the raw material is all around you. And you start with an awareness of how you spot, then access, the stuff of potential opportunities.

You might be thinking, "That sounds too easy." Well, you'd be right that it is, in a way, a "bad news" - "good news" situation. 

So What's the Bad News and Good News? 

The bad news is you have to discern what's useful and determine how to use this material to promote yourself and create opportunities. That's not too bad once you learn how.

But, the good news is that when you understand it and are fully prepared to do it, it can be a piece of cake. It takes effort, as does anything worthwhile, but you can actually find it exciting. That's not as much of a stretch as it might sound. 

It can be exciting because you can now see yourself in control, positively influencing the process of your getting what you want.

But ... You Already Do This to a Degree. 

That's right! You already do it all the time ... only on a much smaller scale. 

Think about it. To get anything you want you have to present and promote yourself: from getting a driver's license to getting a bank account; from getting a friend to help you with a project to getting a job. You put yourself out there, wearing a particular image, then you ask for what you want. 

If you can already do it for small things, you can learn to do it for larger things as well. The only difference is that to accomplish more important things—things on a larger scale that require you present and promote yourself more skillfully, persuasively, and effectively—you need to go beyond your standard operating procedure. 

Why Not Use Your Standard Operating Procedure?

The reason is that there is more at stake. It's somewhat more complex to get a job of particular interest, get a well-deserved promotion, enhance your career, or create special relationships you desire than achieving your everyday minor goals. Promoting yourself and creating your opportunities entails knowing more about yourself and designing specific goal plans.

Promote Myself? I'd Rather Eat Worms! helps you determine what your positive attributes, abilities, skills, talents, and benefits are. Then it shows you how to actively present all the positive qualities you possess in the best possible light in order to influence "decision makers" in any context. Standard operating procedures simply don't have the flexibility to allow you to se them this way.

What is at the Core of the E-Course?

 Specifically, you'll learn how to

This course picks up where Speak Without Fear Small Talk E-Course left off, where you have already begun to master your small talk and speaking anxiety.  However, don't worry if you haven't gone through Speak Without Fear yet.

Promote Myself? I'd Rather Eat Worms! does provide you with an anxiety-
elimination refresher ... so you can pick up Speak Without Fear later, if you choose, for more self-presentation work.

What Else is Included in Promote Myself? I'd Rather Eat Worms!?

Chapter topics in this e-course cover

* Are You an Endangered Species?
* Getting on the Opportunity Bandwagon
* Focusing on Goal Achievement
* Sharpening Your Career Opportunity Skills
* Profiting from Risk Taking
* Making Contacts Work for You
* Developing Interactional Strategies
* Don't Forget About Small Talk
* How to Reduce Your Promotion Anxiety
* Pros and Cons of Personal Contacts
* Maximizing the Use of Personal Contacts
* How to Pursue a Mentor
* Other Organizational Considerations
* Care and Feeding of Contacts
* Taking Advantage of Contact Resources
* Promoting Yourself at Work
* Stalking the Social Animal
* Other Ways to Toot Your Own Horn
* Promoting Yourself in Relationship-Based Marketing
* Maintenance Tactics
* Additional Resources
* Conclusion? No! It's Only the Beginning

What's the Real Beauty of Creating Opportunities?

When you have any degree of self-consciousness, shyness, reluctance, or social anxiety, gaining a sense of control and being able to exercise that control is a wonderful feeling. It makes all the difference in what you achieve and in your satisfaction with yourself and your life. 

Imagine discovering what you need to do and replacing what doesn't work with  what does.

When you create opportunities for yourself, you are the one with artistic control over the final product—the goal you want to achieve.
* You determine precisely and realistically what you want 
* You plan, prepare for, predict, execute, and control the process
* You create what you get 
* You know you can do it again ... and again ... and again!

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Testimonial

"Because she personally knows where her clients are coming from as a former-social phobic as well as a self-promotion expert, Dr. Signe Dayhoff helps people overcome their anxiety and social difficulties - the same difficulties she had to overcome herself. 

She knows that alleviating anxiety is only half the equation. The other half is knowing how to present and promote yourself to achieve your goals. With this in mind her style is positive, practical, and progressive. And her track record with clients? Impressive!" - Dr. Judith Sherven and Dr. Jim Sniechowski

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Promoting Yourself is an Investment in Your Present and Future

If you've suffered long enough from "not having the opportunities" that others always seem to get ... If you haven't been tooting your own horn so others can know what you do well and respond positively to it ... If you haven't been achieving your job, job promotion, career, business, or relationship goals, you need to start thinking  in terms of an investment in yourself ... so you can finally start accomplishing your goals.

Imagine finally being able to steer your life's ship!

Promote Myself? I'd Rather Eat Worms! e-course empowers you with super-charged confidence and the practical, effective, and immediately-usable tools to promote yourself and create opportunities anytime, anywhere, over and over again. 

Because Promote Myself? I'd Rather Eat Worms! is a home-study course, you can comfortably make changes at your own pace ... in the privacy of your own home ... with no one looking over your shoulder.

Your investment in yourself ... your present ... and your future?  ... Only $47.

What Will You Get When You Register For Promote Myself? I'd Rather Eat Worms!

* Confidence to Promote Yourself and Create  Your Own Opportunities
* Freedom to Comfortably Achieve Your Goals
* 21-Step Systematic Guide, 189-Page Course Manual (Value: $167)
* Outlines and Exercises
* Examples Galore
* Techniques, Strategies, and Tools
* Discounts on Future CDs and MP3 Audio Files of E-Course
* Surprise Bonuses! (Value:$57 )

A Total Actual Value of $224 ... But It's Yours 
For the Introductory Price of Just $47