Sunday, October 29, 2006

 

When most people think of self help, what comes to mind is usually basic information that's not particularly interesting or beneficial. But there's a lot more to self help than just the basics.

Self help books come extremely helpful in areas like developing self confident, self esteem, interpersonal skills, self motivational thinking, morale boosting, persistence, positive thinking, staying away from negative influences and everything that is required for the success in personal, professional, family and social lives. There can be different self defeating behaviors that need to be addressed permanently.

All so called self help books may not give the same results. There are self help books with pragmatic approach to individual traits modification. Such books will help you quickly identify problem areas and tell you about the steps to be taken to overcome such issues. Then there are self help books that will tell about the problems and no clear way to a solution. Such books are not very useful. You need practical solutions to the problems you encounter.

Think about what you've read so far. Does it reinforce what you already know about self help? Or was there something completely new? What about the remaining paragraphs?

There can be different places you can look for self help books. The first place you think about can be Amazon.com. There are offline sources also. You can check with your local bookshop manager, who will be able to help you locate the right self help book that will be of real help to you.

When word gets around about your command of self help facts, others who need to know about self help will start to actively seek you out.