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Self Help can refer to any
situation whereby a person or a group makes an effort to better
themselves in terms of their financial status, their
personality, their skills or emotionally. These are efforts are
done through the help of books, audio tapes, video tapes, and
other resources that promises quick and easy way to solving the
problems that many have.
Solutions provided include money, love,
speed reading, studies, health, emotions, leadership skills, motivation,
happiness and many more.
Many resources out there promises a lot,
and the theories are in fact very good. What the 'gurus' don't tell you is that
they've spent years upon years perfecting what they teach. There are no
such thing as a quick and easy way to learning anything.
I'm not saying that many of the resources
out there are not working. I'm just saying don't expect to gain without any
pain.
If you just read the self help materials,
and just leave it at that or just start and stop within a week, there will
definitely be any improvements. You've just wasted your money.
The first step to Self Help is a will to
continue through and never stopping to learn the skill once you've started.
Never stop and think that you have learned something and completely forget about
the newly learned skill. You WILL forget and would have to relearn again. The
relearning process is not as fun as the first time through, and thus, the skill
will never be learned in the end.
For example, I picked up an audio tape on
how to improve my memory instantly! It listened to it. It did what it
promised. My memory improved tremendously using the techniques they thought (See
memory under Resources) After learning the skills, I stopped it at that.
Learning the basics were fun, but having to remember a list of words for the
numbers, it was tedious and boring. I did not get to learn the words, until one
day, I saw a friend of mine who remembered an 8 number thus impressing a girl.
I knew the theory, but could not produce the same result! That gave me a push to
learn up all the words needed to remember long numbers.
Persistence is really the difference
between winners and losers.
-The Self Help Freak.
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