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All The Self-Help in The World Does No Good If You Aren’t Willing to Help Yourself
Both knowledge and motivation are a great start — but you also have to actually start.
When I was still pretty new to writing on Medium, I published several posts poking fun at some of the more well known so-called ‘self help guru’s’.
Amazon unexpectedly sent me a Tonny Robbins book as a free gift with one of my purchases, right around the same time he released his NetFlix special — and admittedly I was kind of tired of being bashed over the head on this platform with self-help listicles at the time, so I just went with it. It was all in good fun and taste though, as truthfully it’s a genre I enjoy for the most part.
Today, I recognize the main problem with self-help is not in those who are dispensing it but instead in how it’s applied — or more precisely, isn’t.
You can read every book your local library has to offer but if you do nothing with the information acquired, it’ll do you absolutely no good.
Now, I know this seems obvious but there are still folks who expect a single reading of a certain book to somehow magically make their lives better.
