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"My name is Steve M Nash and you might know me from such websites as TextMeFree.com, Photos4.co.uk and HowIPromoteMyWebsite.com..." (Ooh, I love The Simpsons, me!) Hello and welcome to this 'about us' page - about the creator of SelfHelpCollective.com, lil' ol' me, Mr Steve. On it, you'll find information about me, about why (and how) I created the Self Help Collective, and a few fun self-help videos thrown in too. It's going to be a hoot, I promise. So let's start as I mean to go on with one of my favourite self improvement quotes: "I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service. And once you know about me do get in touch and tell me about you, eh! (It's only fair... :-) ) And now, a photo of me, Steve M Nash...
About UsAbout Steve M Nash - what I say...I have (another) confession to make: I am not a professional self-help expert! So who am I to give you self help advice? I'm someone just like you, that's who! I know stuff, just like you do, and I also need help from time to time - probably just like you too! Experts serve a purpose but... ultimately, your life is your own responsibility and you must make the decisions and take the actions etc., and rely on your own self to do so. So, yes, I am not a 'professional' and I have no formal self-help qualifications and some would say that I have not truly succeeded in life. Still, quite often 'good advice' just feels right whoever gives it to you, don't you think? ...It's called wisdom. ...And the Self Help Collective is about unlocking the wisdom that is inside YOU. This site aims to encourage you to use that wisdom; so who I am is not really important. Well I don't think so, anyway. Think of me as a facilitator! And if you could do a better job, or if you think you know more about a particular self-help subject, then great - get in touch and share your wisdom! Even though we all know more than we realise, none of us knows it all. We are, if the truth be told, all quite insignificant. Beautiful, lovely, filled with love and joy (and pain), but insignificant nevertheless. A bit like this pale blue dot... Pale Blue Dot Video (my favourite video on all the site - I think! ;-) )(How utterly life affirming this video is. And some of the movie clips used are great too! In fact, I love this YouTube video so much I added it to this collection of inspirational videos too! :-) ) (And on and on he goes... :-) )So I'm just an ordinary person (like you) who gets things right sometimes and other times I get things hopelessly wrong. But (like you, I'm sure) I'm always learning how to do things better (even if I'm sometimes always learning from the same mistake, I learn something new). I have a thirst for self-understanding but NOT in a prescriptive way! And I believe in Louis Armstrong's words: "And I think to myself, what a wonderful world" Yes, 'crappy stuff' happens - death, disease, deceit, misery, starvation, etc. - you only have to turn on the news to be reminded of this 'crappy stuff' each and every day. (Self-help tip: turn off the news!) But great, inspiring stuff happens every day too, and I think it's just as important (it's more important actually) to be reminded of this too. I just want to accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative (not mess with Mr In-Between) and spread a little self help 'lurve'. (But no, I am not a hippy, though I do have long hair. Lol.) True, I am the sort of person who enjoys watching one of those 'free hugs' videos on YouTube: I do smile and I do feel somewhat uplifted when I watch it. (Hugs are a bit like smiles aren't they - infectious.) But you're probably the same, eh! ;-) So what makes me different from you? Hmm, well I love what Paul Neave has done with his collection of 'interesting videos' but then you probably do too! I love good food, going for walks in the country, and reading self-help books sometimes. Hey, I bet you do too... Ah, I'm not much different to you! :-) So why don't you visit your about us page and let me know about you! I even like the same inspirational quotes as you, too... "People of character do the right thing,
not because they think it will change the world but because they refuse
to be changed by the world." -- Michael Josephson I guess I just wanted to try and make a difference in whatever small way I could. And I hope the Self Help Collective can do that! Thanks for reading,
Steve M Nash PS the Self Help Collective pages I've enjoyed creating most (so far) would be the following (in no particular order):
PPS I'm a Yorkshireman, don't you know! Some people like to make jokes about us Yorkshireman - how dare they!...
About Self Help Collective - what I say...Why does the world need another self-help site? Self help? Whether you love or loathe that expression it boils down to this: help yourself! Let me say that again, help yourself! Just how you go about doing that is up to you. Find an article on this site, or another site; read a self help book; watch a movie like Whale Rider (or even Star Wars - whatever floats your boat). Do something, anything, as long as it works! So if you hate self-help and all that it stands for good for you - ignore the advice on this website, and improve your life another way. And if your life doesn't need improving then, well, congratulations - just live life, then, and enjoy it. That's my aim too. This site, and the collective wisdom it encourages is about that one thing: truly enjoying your life; feeling fulfilled; and plain just smiling a bit more - whatever happened to you in the past, and whatever doom lies ahead of you. Right now is a precious moment indeed. (Even if you wouldn't quite express it like Thich Nhat Hanh does in this video...)
No Gurus Here...There are no gurus here, other than you and I. There is nobody saying, "It worked for me so it will work for you! We know best, oh yes we do!" Nope. None of that unwise nonsense here folks. You know best! The Self Help Collective just make suggestions! :-) (Experts, gurus, and qualified people all have their place I agree. But we should never underestimate our own wisdom - never!) However, if you're the type of person that prefers to follow the guru, here are a few that come highly recommended:
And here are a few other reputable self-help sites that you might prefer instead of this site (we all have different needs, after all, and I for one do not believe in a 'one solution fits all' approach):
"Find the guru within" - that's my motto. At least it is as of today, March 11th 2008, when I coined it. (Ooops, looks like I wasn't the first to think of that expression. Go figure!) As I have said, the Self Help Collective is about the wisdom of many versus the wisdom of one - it is guru-free, though all guru and non-guru opinions are welcome! :-) And the Self Help Collective aims to be a good news website, too! Yes, life can be hard sometimes... but life can still be fun. You can still make the most of things with the right attitude, you can still achieve things in your life (still have dreams) but then you know that, and I know that - we all know it. (It's just that sometimes we forget. "D'oh!" as Homer J would say.) Self Help Collective is about using our collective wisdom to help ourselves and help each other. So come on down, and get involved, eh! "Help yourself to the Self Help Collective!" About Self Help Collective - what Dr Ken Evoy says...And now a word from my sponsor... ;-) "Some folks like to make things too
complicated. It pleases Now to be fair to Ken (the the founder of SiteSell Inc. and the creator of the revolutionary "next generation" web site-building/hosting/marketing system, Site Build It!) the people he was talking about were people who wanted to build a website, a website like the Self Help Collective.com - but he could quite easily have been talking about people (in general) and the attitude they have to their lives. Why do I mention Ken on this 'about us' page? Well, without him and his software/service known as Site Build It! I would never have created the self-help website called SelfHelpCollective.com in the first place - that's why! Personally, I consider Site Build It! to be the ultimate empowering self-help tool, I really do (and so does Steve Pavlina). But this 'about us' page is already rather long so if you're interested in how Site Build It! helped me build SelfHelpCollective.com and how it could help you make an income out of your interests (and perhaps help you transform your life), then visit one of the following sites:
About Self Help Collective - what YOU say...Hey, that really is enough about what I think, don't you think? Please do get in touch and tell me what you think about the Self Help Collective. And, if you like, share your self-help story with us all (as I have done here - my self-help story) What do YOU think?Do tell us what you think about the issue of 'about us' . Oh, and please rate this page - thanks. :-)
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