Self Help Books-Do They Help?

I don’t know about you, but I can’t even count on 2 hands all the self help books we have accumulated! I am saying we have MANY. Do they help? For awhile, they give us a new way to look at situations and how to deal with others as they come along.  The trick to self help books is that you have to DO what they tell you to! You start reading, you feel great, a lot of what they are saying really does make sense. Then they tell you what you need to do to get to where you want to be, and you might even start out doing those things, but after awhile when things just aren’t changing fast enough you drop the new routine and you are right back in a rut again.

Self-help books have been around for decades and have made quite a lot of people very rich because of it. Has it been able to help some people? Sure, it probably has, but if it was able to help everyone be better people, then why are there so many books out there? You would think that you would need to purchase one book and that would be it. Well the answer to you living a better life isn’t going to be found in a book that you just dropped $29.95 for.

If you really want to help yourself to a better life, then the first thing you are going to need to do is get off your butt and do something. Reading a book is great for entertainment, relaxation, and gathering knowledge, but unless you are using a self-help book to smack yourself in the head to get up and actually change your life, they are useless. Save your money and focus on the things you need to do to make yourself happier. Wow, that was pretty simple, and you didn’t have to drop a load of cash to read about it.

If your job is making you stressed and you can’t sleep at night, then find another job. What, there aren’t any jobs out there because of the economy is crashing and you don’t want to flip burgers? So, start your own business and get over it. You have talents that you can use so why not put those talents and passions to work for yourself? Remember when you were a child and you had big dreams about what you were going to do when you grew up? What happened to those dreams, and why aren’t you doing what you wanted to do back then?

Life is about the experiences you have. So, if all of your experiences are bad, then your life is pretty much in the crapper from there on out. Find the things you love in life and go after them. Put the passion you have in your heart to work for you and change your life around so that you can finally be happy. If an obstacle appears before you, dig your feet in and move that obstacle out of your way. You don’t have to sit back and accept the life you have. Get up and change it to the one you want instead.