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Self HelpA self improvement website without a page called self-help? Unthinkable!... But I still don't know the difference between self-help and self-improvement! (Do you?) O-kay, here you'll find links to free self help resources, self-help quotes, books, tips, websites, articles and a list of popular self-help authors. Yes, it's self help information all aimed at boosting your self motivation and helping you to help yourself! Self growth writ large, I guess. So let's get on with it, shall we... Self help - what I say...The first thing I say about self-help is that I'm not sure what the difference between self help and self-improvement is, so that's why I created two pages. The next thing I say about free self help is that just because it's free doesn't mean it's not helpful. Selfhelp, as some of you like to call it(!), really can help effect positive personal change - it just has to be the right kind of self help information, that's all! (And, yes, that's where the Self Help Collective comes in - you'll find great self-help information here, and links to the best self help websites if you want to learn more.) So, let me ask you a question: What do the ten most popular new year's resolutions have to do with that dreaded phrase 'self help'? Here are those resolutions:
Well, to me, it's a recipe for self-help, don't you think! Either it's how to solve a problem (e.g. debt, smoking) or it's how to make your life better (e.g. love-life, job). This list, in essence, is about self-motivation and self growth - don't you think? And, thankfully, you don't have to wait until New Year to start improving yourself! You could start right now by reading the self-help articles listed at the Self Help Collective. "Everything you want is outside your
comfort zone." Okay the last thing I have to say about self help improvement - self help books, self help articles, self help tips, self help websites etc. etc. - is that sometimes self-help doesn't make things 'better'; sometimes people can get addicted to reading without doing; or they find too much comfort with the notion that their problems are not their responsibility. (Though I'm not sure I'd go quite as far as Lance Winslow does in his article (below) called: "Problems With Do-Gooder Self-Improvement Types Making Society Weak".) So take care when it comes to self-help, eh! Choose your self help resources wisely! ;-) And always, always, always take action! Do tell me what you think of self-help, eh! Why thank you... :-)
Problems With Do-gooder Self-improvement Types Making Society WeakSelf Help - what Lance Winslow has to say...There are so many self-improvement types and psychologists working on helping people get through their problems and their stress in life. Many of these psychologists and self-improvement consultants write articles and they give advice, and many of them mean well. Unfortunately a lot of what I see it is there are many problems with these do-gooder self-improvement types as they are making society weak. If someone has psychological issues or tremendous stress in their life then they need to channel that energy and those issues and do something about it. However, going through old childhood memories and trying to psychoanalyze every single event in someone's life is purely silly. People need to take responsibility for their actions and deal with their hardships and stop complaining and making excuses. Too many do-gooder self-improvement types allow people [to] excuse themselves out of things to try to make them feel comfortable even when they failed to perform a duty or made good on a responsibility. There is no excuse for failure, no excuse for piss poor performance in any of life's many endeavors. It would seem to me that [if] self-improvement types really want to help the people who they are consulting with then they [should] tell them to be more responsible for their actions, honor their commitments and stop acting like such a crybaby. But if they did that I suppose the people would be cured and not need them anymore? I don't like self-improvement psychologists because of the bad advice they give to people who are already weak when too often this advice makes them weaker. But then again, I do [not] like weakness anyway and I think weak people are of no value because they do not try, they make excuses and everything is always suddenly someone else's fault. Who needs them, they don't do anything. Now then, how can we help the self-help experts? Consider this in 2006. ---------------------------------------------------- Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Lance_Winslow What do you think? Do you agree or disagree with Lance's perhaps controversial views on self-help - do let me know? Self-help - what WikiPedia says...And finally, what that marvellous online resource called WikiPedia has to say about self help: "Self-help or self-improvement refers to self-guided improvement—economically, intellectually, or emotionally—most frequently with a substantial psychological or spiritual basis. "The basis for self-help is often self-reliance, publicly available information, or support groups where people in similar situations join together..." ( Read more from WikiPedia about self-help here! ) Hey, I think WikiPedia is talking about the Self Help Collective! :-) What do YOU think?Do tell us what you think about the issue of self help . Oh, and please rate this page - thanks. :-)
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