Foreword by Raymond Aaron

Raymond Aaron, NY Times Best Selling Author

You need top-notch communication skills if you want to get along in today’s world. If you’re a wallflower and haven’t got those skills, you’re at a distinct disadvantage. It’s not because you are less talented or have poor ideas, in fact, you’re probably more talented than most. It’s just that you have this knack of remaining invisible. Sadly, many of the existing confidence building methods do too little to improve your prospects.

When I first met Claire Schrader, I found it hard to believe that she was identified as a wallflower. I was struck by how alive and vibrant she was, and how well she was able to communicate under pressure. She too, had a quiet confidence that impressed me. I didn’t realize that what I was seeing was the Sunflower Effect in action: the highly effective system that Claire has developed, based on her own experience of transforming her life.

Claire’s new book, From Wallflower to Sunflower, maps out a surprisingly simple way to access hidden aspects of yourself that’s a real game changer in the field of confidence building. It will show how you can move from the sidelines and find the part of yourself that is naturally able to shine. This is what Claire calls your “Sunflower”. It’s not just another HOW-TO book on confidence, full of techniques and promises that you can never see yourself actually doing.

In fact, there is nothing really new about the Sunflower Effect. Marilyn Monroe, Robin Williams, David Bowie and countless other stars have experienced the same difficulties, but they too hit on the same simple secret that Claire had. Not only that: they stepped out into the limelight and exhibited the exact opposite of wallflower behaviour. You can’t really imagine wallflowers behaving in such a flamboyant way, and yet quite clearly it is entirely possible.

Claire has spent nearly twenty years of carefully honing and developing the Sunflower Effect to its present form. If you are a wallflower and you’ve tried practically everything else, read this book and start to change your prospects.

You will discover that all the things that people have been saying about you are plainly not true.

Raymond Aaron
New York Times Bestselling Author of Chicken Soup for the Parents’ Soul, Chicken Soup for the Canadian Soul, and Double your Income Doing What You Love

www.aaron.com