Self-help is the best help.
— Polish Proverb
There are many bloggers and authors out there who make fun of the self-help industry and I certainly understand their point of view. If nothing else, the question is always raised, “if self-help authors/speakers are so good, why do we keep needing to read/hear from more of them?” I think I’ve figured out the answer. They believe that we can succeed more than we do.
For several weeks now, I’ve been listening to a free series of speakers provided by an organization called “Unlimited Wealth.” Some of the speakers have been a rehash of the same ol’ stuff I’ve heard a million times before, but some of them have brought new ideas to the table. The price for all of this is that in the middle and at the end of every interview, there is a sales pitch. The speaker is there to promote their business and they get their shot each time. Even so, there have been some really good Continue reading » How to Help Yourself
For the last two weeks we’ve been giving you ideas on how you can change your response to things that happen to you, thoughts that come into your head, bad moods, etc. The one thing we have neglected to give you is a methodology for learning these new skills. The fact is that learning a new skill can be challenging and one of the reasons that people hesitate to try new things is that they don’t know how to coach themselves.
When I was a kid, I never really participated in sports. I was the oldest and until my younger siblings came along, my parents thought that sports were an unnecessary complication of their lives. I went to Catholic school in Illinois. This means that there was no gym period – because we poor Catholics didn’t have a gym and those Illinois winters are brutal. Also, having gone to school in the Pleistocene period, there was no law requiring that we be exposed to physical education of any sort, thus the beginning of “secretary spread” in first grade.
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