Robert Kelsey is author of Capstone's bestselling What's Stopping You? exploring why smart people failed to reach their potential. He has gone on to sell over 64,000 copies across three What's Stopping You? titles.Robert Kelsey is CEO of Moorgate Communications, a financial PR agency, and was previously CEO of Metrocube, a start-up incubator located in London's fashionable "City-fringes". He trained as a financial journalist before becoming an investment banker and a now an entrepreneur, running his successful PR agency.Yet Kelsey remains and perennial outsider. From a rebellious childhood to an adulthood of pursuing a series of unsuitable careers, he has had a lifetime of failing to settle into any group activities, yet lacking the confidence, guile or know-how to profitably "rebel". Kelsey has developed an enormous insight into both the root causes of alienation and the all-encompassing negative consequences.

• Preface to the Second Edition ixForeword by Luke Johnson xiiiIntroduction 1Part One - What is Stopping You? 91 Fear 112 External Responses 283 Failure as a Positive Experience 434 Producing Better Responses 54Part Two - Goals 615 Act 636 Visualization 727 Language and Behaviour 878 Appropriate Goal Setting for Recovering High-FFs 98Part Three - Execution 1079 Strategy and Tactics 10910 Judgement and Ideas 12311 Managing the Process 132What’s Stopping You?Part Four - People 14912 Self-esteem 15113 Dealing with the Boss 16314 Progress as an Employee 17215 Networking and Interviews 18116 Leadership 194Part Five - Me Inc. 20917 The High-FF Entrepreneur 21118 Alternative Paths for the High-FF 220Conclusion - The Point of Recovery 233Seven Steps to Navigating Fear of Failure 241Bibliography 247About Robert Kelsey 253Index 255

"This book will resonate with anyone, from student to senior manager,??who doubts their ability or worries that they are not capable or could achieve more with the opportunities that have been presented to them." (Nursing Times, February 2016) "A good book to dip in and out of if you have a fear of failure or have confidence issues... a fluent, readable style." (Talk Business, August 2012) "Commonsensical advice for the intelligent reader." (Management Today, June 2012)

Robert Kelsey is author of Capstone's bestselling What's Stopping You? exploring why smart people failed to reach their potential. He has gone on to sell over 64,000 copies across three What's Stopping You? titles.Robert Kelsey is CEO of Moorgate Communications, a financial PR agency, and was previously CEO of Metrocube, a start-up incubator located in London's fashionable "City-fringes". He trained as a financial journalist before becoming an investment banker and a now an entrepreneur, running his successful PR agency.Yet Kelsey remains and perennial outsider. From a rebellious childhood to an adulthood of pursuing a series of unsuitable careers, he has had a lifetime of failing to settle into any group activities, yet lacking the confidence, guile or know-how to profitably "rebel". Kelsey has developed an enormous insight into both the root causes of alienation and the all-encompassing negative consequences.

• Preface to the Second Edition ixForeword by Luke Johnson xiiiIntroduction 1Part One - What is Stopping You? 91 Fear 112 External Responses 283 Failure as a Positive Experience 434 Producing Better Responses 54Part Two - Goals 615 Act 636 Visualization 727 Language and Behaviour 878 Appropriate Goal Setting for Recovering High-FFs 98Part Three - Execution 1079 Strategy and Tactics 10910 Judgement and Ideas 12311 Managing the Process 132What’s Stopping You?Part Four - People 14912 Self-esteem 15113 Dealing with the Boss 16314 Progress as an Employee 17215 Networking and Interviews 18116 Leadership 194Part Five - Me Inc. 20917 The High-FF Entrepreneur 21118 Alternative Paths for the High-FF 220Conclusion - The Point of Recovery 233Seven Steps to Navigating Fear of Failure 241Bibliography 247About Robert Kelsey 253Index 255

"This book will resonate with anyone, from student to senior manager,??who doubts their ability or worries that they are not capable or could achieve more with the opportunities that have been presented to them." (Nursing Times, February 2016) "A good book to dip in and out of if you have a fear of failure or have confidence issues... a fluent, readable style." (Talk Business, August 2012) "Commonsensical advice for the intelligent reader." (Management Today, June 2012)

Robert Kelsey is author of Capstone's bestselling What's Stopping You? exploring why smart people failed to reach their potential. He has gone on to sell over 64,000 copies across three What's Stopping You? titles.Robert Kelsey is CEO of Moorgate Communications, a financial PR agency, and was previously CEO of Metrocube, a start-up incubator located in London's fashionable "City-fringes". He trained as a financial journalist before becoming an investment banker and a now an entrepreneur, running his successful PR agency.Yet Kelsey remains and perennial outsider. From a rebellious childhood to an adulthood of pursuing a series of unsuitable careers, he has had a lifetime of failing to settle into any group activities, yet lacking the confidence, guile or know-how to profitably "rebel". Kelsey has developed an enormous insight into both the root causes of alienation and the all-encompassing negative consequences.

• Preface to the Second Edition ixForeword by Luke Johnson xiiiIntroduction 1Part One - What is Stopping You? 91 Fear 112 External Responses 283 Failure as a Positive Experience 434 Producing Better Responses 54Part Two - Goals 615 Act 636 Visualization 727 Language and Behaviour 878 Appropriate Goal Setting for Recovering High-FFs 98Part Three - Execution 1079 Strategy and Tactics 10910 Judgement and Ideas 12311 Managing the Process 132What’s Stopping You?Part Four - People 14912 Self-esteem 15113 Dealing with the Boss 16314 Progress as an Employee 17215 Networking and Interviews 18116 Leadership 194Part Five - Me Inc. 20917 The High-FF Entrepreneur 21118 Alternative Paths for the High-FF 220Conclusion - The Point of Recovery 233Seven Steps to Navigating Fear of Failure 241Bibliography 247About Robert Kelsey 253Index 255

"This book will resonate with anyone, from student to senior manager,??who doubts their ability or worries that they are not capable or could achieve more with the opportunities that have been presented to them." (Nursing Times, February 2016) "A good book to dip in and out of if you have a fear of failure or have confidence issues... a fluent, readable style." (Talk Business, August 2012) "Commonsensical advice for the intelligent reader." (Management Today, June 2012)