Interesting article!

The funny thing about self-help - the category, the books, the tapes, et al, - is that it has little to do with self. It's always about someone trying to influence someone else and get them to do something they came up with.

Most people don't believe in themselves, their knowledge, the encouraging voices coming from within. We look outside ourselves for guidance and confidence. Not our confidence - we don't trust it. But the confidence others manifest. Tony Robbins and Zig Ziglar kind of confidence.

But aren't these people simply telling us what worked for them? How many diet books are there - 105,678? How many of them worked? How many have we tried.

The only diet that ever worked for me - is the one that came from me. From me observing myself and what worked.

Self-help is a cool subject - if we could only define it correctly. Cheers.