When Your Best Isn't Good Enough - by Kevin Leman (Paperback)

About the Book

Writing in his upbeat style, Dr. Kevin Leman provides positive, no-nonsense strategies that help readers who struggle with self-doubt to accept their shortcomings, value their talents and gifts, overcome their feelings of inadequacy, and develop a healthy lifestyle regardless of their past.

Book Synopsis

Are you an expert at finding flaws within yourself? Do you tend to procrastinate, set unrealistic goals, or continually try to please others? Writing in his warm and direct style, Dr. Kevin Leman shows you how to value your talents and gifts and accept your shortcomings. He shows how the way we develop as a child determines our degree of success or failure as an adult and explains how, regardless of the past, each person can develop a healthy lifestyle today. Dr. Leman also shows you how to apply these same principles in raising children with healthy self-esteem. If you want to make a positive change in your life, this is the place to start.

From the Back Cover

Are you an expert at finding flaws within yourself?

Do you tend to procrastinate, set unrealistic goals, or continually try to please others?

Do you have to "push" your children to get them to do anything?

Writing in his warm and direct style, Dr. Kevin Leman shows you how to value your talents and gifts and accept your shortcomings. He shows how the way you develop as a child affects your behavior as an adult and explains how, regardless of the past, anyone can pursue a healthy lifestyle today. Dr. Leman even shows you how to apply these same principles in raising children with healthy self-esteem in order to break the cycle of perfectionism.

If you want to make a positive change in your life, this is the place to start.


Dr. Kevin Leman is an internationally known psychologist, New York Times bestselling author, radio and television personality, educator, humorist, and speaker who has written more than sixty books, including The Birth Order Book, Making Children Mind without Losing Yours, and Have a New Kid by Friday. Dr. Leman and his wife, Sande, live in Tucson, Arizona. They have five children and four grandchildren.

About the Author

Dr. Kevin Leman is an internationally known psychologist, New York Times bestselling author, radio and television personality, educator, humorist, and speaker who has written more than 60 books, including The Birth Order Book, Making Children Mind without Losing Yours, and Have a New Kid by Friday. Dr. Leman and his wife, Sande, live in Tucson, Arizona. They have five children and four grandchildren.