The Effectiveness of Self-Help Books
From Memoirs to Blockbuster
Tired of going to your psychiatrist or psychologist for a session therapy? Why not indulge in many self-help books available in the books and magazines section of a bookstore or mart near you.
Self-Help books really fill the gap between you and your busy therapist. If you’re so busy with your work, take time reading books that can really influence your life in a positive way. These books are real stories that can also change your life for the better.
Popular TV Talk Shows, like Oprah, recommends self-help books that can really change your life. These books may not only help you psychologically or physically but can be an alternative therapy, like in cooking or other hobbies that you can do at home.
Self-help books range from A to Z. From Mental Health Concerns, Challenges in Living, Personal Growth up to Saving the Earth, you can find every topic you want to venture into.
Mental Health Concerns include: abusive relationship, addiction, anger management, suicide and many other topics that can really change your lives with its featured remedies and therapy.
Challenges in Living include: men and women's issues, family issues, teenagers and intimate relationships among others.
Personal Growth features: career development, health and wellness, creative writing and related topics for individual's development.
Saving the Earth promotes books and DVDs on Nature, Global Warming, Conservation and Green Living.
The wide array of topics in these books will really help you personally. You can also recommend such books if you have already read it and did a positive result in your life.
Self-Help Book on Mental Health Concerns
Success and Personal Effectiveness
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Living Your Dreams by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen
This collection of 101 stories is based on the belief that testimonies of goodness and loving transformations can nourish us to the bone and heal the cynicism in our hearts. The short simple stories tell about an event, a person, or an everyday miracle that exemplifies the best of the human spirit. This multi-million selling book has taught readers that dreams really do come true for those who dare to believe that any obstacle can be overcome with persistence, patience, and belief in oneself.
Note: I have read this book way back 2005. I have left it in the ship's library so that others may read it and be inspired.
Chicken Soup for the Soul
How Effective those Self-Help Books?
In my own experience, as an introvert before, I was awaken by the stories of heroes and famous people in history who contributed to their nations' independence.
More so, popular television hosts who personally struggle before gaining fame is a tough act to follow.
Alas, they inspire me to be like them, to follow the right path they've walked on in order to be roles models to others.
With their memoirs and written books, many will follow their footsteps into righteousness.
Ten Most Famous Self-Help Books
Title of the Book
| Writer/Author
| Date of First Publication/Publisher
|
---|---|---|
1. How to Win Friends & Influence People
| Dale Carnegie
| 1937/HarperCollins
|
2.The Road Less Travelled
| M. Scott Peck
| 1978/Rider
|
3.Feel The Fear and Do It Anyway
| Susan Jeffers
| Rider
|
4. Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus
| John Gray
| HarperCollins
|
5.He's Not Just That Into You
| Greg Behrent & Liz Tucillo
| HarperCollins
|
6.The 7 Habits of Highly-Effective People
| Stephen R. Covey
| Simon & Schuster
|
7.The Power of Now
| Eckhart Tolle
| Hodder Headline Australia
|
8. Awakening The Buddhist Heart: Cultivating Love and Spiritual Intelligence in Your Life
| Lama Surya Das
| Bantam
|
9. The Secret
| Rhonda Byrne
| Simon & Schuster
|
10. Intimacy and Solitude
| Stephanie Dowrick
| Random House Australia
|
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