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.…
Category: self help
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…
National Relaxation Day I can do that
Ah to relax, what could be easier? You lean back and close your eyes and wait for someone to come and bother you. No wait, you take a deep breath and let it out slowly, before the phone rings again. Or maybe you just sit still and let the worries of the world drift way, while you think about that next project you need be working on.Hmm, relaxing is not really all that easy. That’s why Holosync, InnerTalk, Dane Spotts and Kelly Howell are doing so well. They all make these cool little relaxation CDs where you put on the…