The No Complaining Rule

I have been a self help junkie for a long time and I am not too demanding of my self help books. I expect them to keep me interested and hopeful while I am reading them. This can be a bit of challenge with old warhorses like Think and Grow Rich, which is baffling in it’s ancient histories and team building strategies. But most modern self help writers have followed in the footsteps of Kenneth H. Blanchard, who wrote The One Minute Manager and several follow up books-all of which cost about twenty dollars and were about twenty pages long.…

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3 Seconds- Stop and Think

When people are presented with the choice of admitting that they are wrong, or trying to prove that they are right, most get started on the proof straight away. Les Parrott’s 3 Seconds The Power of Thinking Twice is a pretty good collection of self help advice. Like all self help books, he starts from the general assumption that you have a problem or you wouldn’t be seeking self help advice in the first place. The table of contents is one of the best pages in the book, here the the six major ideas of the book are laid out…

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Rich Dad, Poor Dad-Still A Good Read

I’ve been a great fan of self-help books most of my adult life. My problem has always been that I tend to hop to the next book before I have a chance to make that fortune from the last one. Think and Grow Rich seems like a good idea, but I was never sure I could talk twenty other people into helping me become rich. You Can if You Think You Can was a fun read, but that was about all. Then there came along the Rich Dad, Poor Dad books.They follow the standard self help formula, here’s a schmuck…

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