Martha Nibley Beck is an inspirational writer and packs a lot of good advice and techniques into "Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant To Live."

I like the way Beck guides you to shape the conversations you have with yourself regarding how other people's words affect you, and how you filter words that may help you due to negative conditioning of years of self doubt.

Beck uses the example of a person who is so stuck in a rut of self doubt that "...if the entire membership of Mensa lined up to tell you how brilliant you are, their words would skitter off your consciousness and land in some obsure mental waste depository." She continues with advice on how to counteract the rut. "The only way to counteract the persistent lies is to wear a different set of ruts, new tracks for your mind to follow in its unconscious meanderings."

This is great advice, and Beck backs it up with methods of achieving those new tracks for your mind.

You should really read Ms. Beck's book, "Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant To Live."