The one book that may change your life
How many books do you think you’ve read in your life? How many books do you think you’ve read that have actually changed your life? I’ve read quite a few in my life and I can honestly say that I’ve never read a book that has change my total outlook on life like the one I just finished reading. It was recommended to me by my coach and within the first chapter I had this gut feeling that this was the book I’ve been looking for my entire life. I’m completely aware of how ridiculous this sounds because if I was reading this right now I would be thinking, “Ok sure, are you going to sell me Avon now?”
All I have to say is this, have you ever read a self help book, been motivated to make a change in your life, and it didn’t last long term? Me too. I used to feel like a failure. I would read a book, commit to myself to make a change, and then later reflect back about a goal I never met. I consider myself some one of the above the average intelligence, but making a change was really hard, and I never understood why. Especially if it was something I wanted to do and it wasn’t something that someone else was pushing on to me. Take weight loss for example. This has been something that I’ve struggled with for a very long time. I quit smoking three years ago put on 70 pounds, and have yet to take it off. Do I want to take it off? You bet! So why don’t I? I did know, and without knowing you were only left to draw your own conclusions. I will tell you my own conclusions were not very nice, they weren’t inspiring, they weren’t uplifting, and I once had a friend tell me to please be nicer to her friend Diane. It wasn’t just with weight loss it was with anything I was trying to make a change of in my life, maybe I wanted to become more organized, get to work earlier, remember to send cards out to people, spend more time with my girlfriends, take my child to the park more, it didn’t matter what was I was trying to do – sometimes it would work and the changes would take effect and sometimes it wouldn’t. There was no rhyme or reason, I couldn’t figure it out.
There are those people in everyone’s life whom just see more lucky. It seems everything they touch turns to gold. I wondered what was different about those people than me. Why did I have to work so much harder for things? Why did some things I try turned the junk instead of gold? Why did these people seem to just have it so much easier?
If you’ve ever felt like this or wondered any of these things I urge you to read the book What to say when you talk to yourself by Shad Helmstetter. This book answered all those questions for me and so much more. It took away my guilt and it made me feel like this year is the year that I make the lasting change in my life that I want. This is the year that I will be able to create the life that I want. I’ve heard of the law of attraction, I’ve studied it, I even have clients the teach it. This isn’t that. This was the first thing for me that really make complete 100% sense. It doesn’t seem like magical thinking more wishful thinking or even just positive thoughts – although it does talk about positive thoughts and he talks about why if you don’t do it correctly it won’t work. So if you want a good read, and you want to start off the year really making a promise to yourself and making sure comes true, then I suggest you start with this book. You’ll thank me later.
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