— and be yourself, and improve yourself, and organize yourself, and sell yourself! A key element in the world of self-help books is that you can \u2013 and should \u2013 be (as the old sales pitch for the US Army had it) Be All You Can Be. So there are a myriad of books showing how we, the readers, can start on that path to self-improvement.<\/p>\n
A huge number of self-help books are about being organized.<\/p>\n
Another huge amount of self-help books are about being inspired \u2013 often by the example of famously successful people (who may or may not have anything in common with your own situation).<\/p>\n
Others involve being a great salesman. Indeed, there are so many books about being great at selling, that a few people have had successful careers simply telling others how to be great salesmen!<\/p>\n
First of all, which self help-books actually help? The first book listed is Richard Carlson\u2019s \u201cDon\u2019t Sweat the Small Stuff (and It\u2019s All Small Stuff\u201d), a classic of its genre.<\/p>\n Now let’s look at a naysayer \u2013 someone who, having bought many, many self-help books, questions their value:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.motivationalwellbeing.com\/self-help-books-are-useless.html<\/a><\/p>\n So, even though some self-help books primarily help the publisher\u2019s bottom line, others can be very useful to the reader \u2013 but only if the reader puts that advice into effective use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" — and be yourself, and improve yourself, and organize yourself, and sell yourself! A key element in the world of self-help books is that you can \u2013 and should \u2013 be (as the old sales pitch for the US Army had it) Be All You Can Be. So there are a myriad of books showing … Continue reading “Just Help Yourself —-“<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self-help-audio-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions\/369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nhttp:\/\/www.raptitude.com\/2013\/02\/five-self-help-books-that-actually-helped\/<\/a><\/p>\n