Self Help Books

Why Is It So hard To Make The Life Changes We Seek?

Sam Sommers | Posted 03.30.2012

Are you looking to be a happier, more productive, more successful person? Are you in the market for self-help? Then the better advice is stop putting so much effort into finding your "authentic" self. Learn to embrace the self as flexible.

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11 Books To Help You Turn Over A New Leaf

Kelly McGonigal | Posted 02.22.2012

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The self-help shelves are full of guides on weight loss, health, happiness, and self-improvement. But sometimes the most life-changing ideas and advice are found in the science section.

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Homelessness Myth #21: They're All Happy-Go-Lucky

Christine Schanes | Posted 01.17.2012

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Some housed people believe that homeless people don't have a care in the world. They think that because many homeless people don't appear to work, th...

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Is Self-Help Really Helpful?

Posted 12.20.2011

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By Emily Sicard | The Daily Muse Taking a skills survey for work recently, I came to one question that gave me pause. I was to rank how this statem...

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Battling Breast Cancer: 36 Books That Create Hope

Posted 12.10.2011

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We think of books as sources of entertainment, or vehicles for information – but they can also be vital supports in dark moments. For Breast Cancer...

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Jane Fonda To Write Self-Help Book

The Bookseller | Posted 08.24.2011

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Vermilion has acquired a memoir and self-help crossover title by actress and fitness guru Jane Fonda, to be published on 11th August....

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Self-Help Author Convicted Of Negligent Homicide

AP | By FELICIA FONSECA | Posted 08.23.2011

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CAMP VERDE, Ariz. -- They came in search of spiritual enlightenment, using the sweat lodge as a way to break through whatever was holding them back in...

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PHOTO: How To Turn Down A Guy Without Ruining The Mood

Posted 08.01.2011

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We've all been there: It's not that you don't want to hang out with your chiseled, model boyfriend, it's that you're SO CLOSE to finishing this scarf ...

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Self-Help Books You Can Read Without Embarrassment (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

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From Flavorpill: By Kathleen Massara Janet Jackson just released True You: A Journey to Finding and Loving Yourself, and although we wouldn't ne...

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Are Self-Help Books Actually Helpful?

Susan Piver | Posted 11.17.2011

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Real change takes more than discovering someone's very good argument about what happiness means. The truth is, we each have to figure it out for ourselves, and it would be so awesome if publishers would help.

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Working Around Life's Obstacles

Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

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The title, subtitle and cover art all suggest yet one more addition to the huge library of business success books, yet there is a wonderful surprise lurking beneath the surface here.

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Top 5 'New Year, New You!' Books for 2011

Nicole Berrie | Posted 05.25.2011

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Focusing on inner transformation, five authors might have what it takes to bring you happiness in 2011. As the great Greek historian Plutarch famously said, "What we achieve inwardly will change our outer reality."

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From Visionary Writer to Successful Author: 5 Key Factors

Patricia Benesh | Posted 05.25.2011

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It takes many years to become an overnight success -- and a thick skin to survive the rejection and criticism.

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The Agenda -- Part I: Ask Why

Chris Guillebeau | Posted 05.25.2011

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If everyone could answer the question of why they do what they do, I think the world would be a better place.

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Are You Avoiding Your Life?

Russell Bishop | Posted 11.17.2011

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It should also be clear that simply holding the positive thought that there's a good job out there for you won't be enough to land it either -- you still have to get off your "buts" and do something.

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Your Body Means Business

Eli Davidson | Posted 11.17.2011

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In our newer more complex world tapping into your deeper intelligence is a key to avoiding pitfalls and taking what is necessary to make a quantum leap.

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Brain-Based Strategies For Harnessing Your Power

Srinivasan Pillay | Posted 11.17.2011

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Anyone can access their deepest desires and manifest them. Overcome the brain-based challenges to accessing your power.

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How To Rebuild Your Integrity

Russell Bishop | Posted 11.17.2011

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As you build a track record of making and keeping commitments, you will build a more substantial base of personal integrity from which to live your life. Even if no one else notices, you will!

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6 Keys to Being Excellent at Anything

Tony Schwartz | Posted 11.17.2011

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In work with thousands of people, we've found that it's possible to build any given skill or capacity in the same systematic way you do a muscle: push past your comfort zone, and then rest.

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5 Steps To Transform Your B+ Life

Tara Sophia Mohr | Posted 11.17.2011

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In a B plus life, things are good but not great. Something feels off. Life feels like it is happening in black and white, rather than in full color. Something in you keeps asking, "Is this all there is?"

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Your Destructive Mind Habits In 5 Short Chapters

Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

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Mind traps are those habitual thinking styles we get caught in that inevitably trap us into a cascading snowball of reactivity that leads us to greater distress. Look this over, see if you identify with any of them.

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How Much Does Your Word Mean These Days?

Russell Bishop | Posted 11.17.2011

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"I'm a truthful, upstanding person of strong moral character. I just happen to lie sometimes." Could this be what you have to tell yourself in order to become a (politician, business person, etc) in today's world?

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Buggs and Elmer -- The Tao and Its Shadow or How Elmer Fudd Shows Us Ourselves

Vaishali | Posted 11.17.2011

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Using Buddha's example of the via negativa, we might get just as much insight into the absence of awakening by taking a closer look at Fudd, the alter-ego of Bugs.

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Could Impeccability Be the Missing Key to Integrity?

Russell Bishop | Posted 11.17.2011

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Impeccable is taking integrity to a whole other level. I can't explain the mechanism involved, but when I put those words down on paper it created a powerful experience -- a profound consciousness shift.

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New Perfectionism: a Platform of Self-Acceptance

Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

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I have a notion of a new perfectionism. The old-paradigm perfectionism was an attempt to perfect the imperfect. The new paradigm: perfecting the perfect.

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