Daily personal development is a great thing! It is critical to your success. If you talk to any successful person, they will tell you that who they have BECOME along the journey is just as important to them as the success they have achieved. Each and every one of them I would venture to say has done a committed program of personal development. For some, it’s attending expensive seminars, or getting personal coaching. For others it could be as simple as buying fifty cent books at the used book store that were devoured each time with full fervor. The point is, personal development is individual, and PERSONAL. It’s YOURS. Nobody can ever take it away from you.
You can build your own fantastic library in your home of all the volumes of wonderful books that stirred your soul, mind and heart. This is what we have done, and we cherish it greatly.What we cherish even more is what we have done with the information from inside the books. We can point to specific books and tell you how that information touched us, and how we applied it in our lives. A good example is Bob Proctor’s You Were Born Rich, in which he teaches the principles of seeing your goals and dreams, and making them REAL. No other book has been applied more in our lives, and given us more fuel to go for what we want and the BELIEF that we CAN TRULY HAVE ANYTHING.
Another example is the book Think and Grow Rich, in which Napoleon Hill talks about writing your goal on a card and carrying it around with you. We have both manifested many dreams with this simple tool alone…but not by wishing… by Seeing, Believing, and DOING! This is the distinction. You have to do your part, then let the Universe do the rest.
It is only in the application of personal development that we grow. These books do us absolutely no good on the shelf!! So ask yourself if you are simply reading and listening to the material, or really using it in your life. Watch what happens!!
Does Your Personal Development Library SHOW in Your LIFE?
To Your Success!
Larry & Laura
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I love this post. It is so true in my life. Many times I will finish a good Personal Development or Self-Improvement book or might attend a seminar or speaker but days later i got back to my “old self” I think this post has really inspired me to really take action and use the principles that I have learned any many books and seminars. By the way I love bob proctor. I wen and saw him speak in October and he was amazing. He talked about Paradigm shifts in our lifes!
Talk soon!
Kyle
Knowledge that is not used is useless.
I think each quote each sentence we find in self help books like the ones you have mentioned and many many other can be used interpreted in our lives in millions ways as life changes and so do we.
As a life and business coach integrity is one of the values I really believe in and so if we are not able to be an example with what we teach to our clients being coached by others, how can we provide value? How trustful are we if we are not the 1st ones to be trained by others to be the best we can in our lives?
Thank you for this post Laura and Larry, nice to meet you again!
Hi Larry and Laura, Self Help is my specialty. I can’t get enough of it and believe that we are all on a life journey that requires learning about ourselves all the time. We change, we grow, and we sometimes need those new bodies to fit in. We have to grow into them. I have read many books and love Robert Kiyosaki.
There are so many avenues out there to pick from and I like it to be part of my day.
Many blessings to you,
Donna
Hey Larry and Laura,
Great post. I read inspirational, self help books for an hour or so every single day before bed time.
I can’t picture my life without reading and constant mental growth. The more I read the more I want to read and grow.
Think and grow rich is one of my favorite books of all time.
Sadly I haven’t read anything from Roert Kiyosaki…………..yet. Accidentally I say the cover on your video; I take it as a sign.
thanks for the share!
Akos