Start Doing – Stop Reading Self Help Books

Continuously reading self help books is much like gathering a stash of holiday brochures and travel books about an exotic destination that you would love to visit. You’ve poured over photographs, read all the reviews, imagined yourself sipping a cocktail looking out over that breath-taking sunset, immersed yourself in the idea of being there. However, you’ve never got around to buying the ticket. What’s my point? Reading about how to achieve the life that you really want and actually doing what you’ve learned are two completely different things. Reading all those feel-good stories about how others have taken the required action and, as a consequence, changed their lives, may well give you that longing feeling inside. But tomorrow morning, when you drag yourself out of bed for another normal day, what has changed? Little or nothing! When wake up to another day of hassle, stress, financial worries or battered self-esteem, what good will all that reading have done you? If anything, you’ll find yourself even more restless and more disillusioned than you were at the outset.

Reading, understanding and intellectually appreciating what it takes to change your life will change nothing in your life until you put your learning into regular practice. And that’s just too big a hassle for so-called normal people – they’re fearful of taking what they perceive as some really risky leap of faith.

If you’ve been lucky enough to come across a self help book that gives you step-by-step instructions on how to change your life (and they’re few and far between – most of them are ‘feel-good books’) then you must know by now that you don’t have to leap into the great unknown. All you need to take is take small daily steps that will awaken you from the self-induced hypnosis in which most normal people are merely existing.

If you want to change your life, you’ve got to change the way you’re living the life that you have at present. You start small – by doing something as simple as changing your morning routine – because small things get your subconscious mind out of its comfort zone. Once out you will start to understand that absolutely everything in your life can be done differently. When this realization hits you, you’re going to find yourself in a completely different place – where action that was otherwise unconscionable suddenly become obvious – and easily doable.

In fact, it’s you who has to start doing the things that will change your life, to stop reading and start doing.

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