Self Development Books And Self Help Tapes Move You Forward

Self Development Books And Self Help Tapes For Total Transformation.

Self Development Books
Self development books and self help tapes have always been a passion of mine. Since my early 20′s (1974) I have always had lots of both around and they made a tremendous difference in my life. Today the tapes are CDs and the books might be an ebook on your Kindle but it doesn’t matter, they are tranformative. 
Favorite Self Development Books
Dale Carnigie, Napoleon Hill, and Robert Collier wrote some of my favorite books. Later, when audio programs became more popular, I found self help tapes by Denis Wailtey, Zig Ziglar, and others. These were exciting times, I had advanced to a job where I traveled from city to city and the tapes were constantly playing. I grew in character as well as in my job. I became the expert in several fields related to my job and finally a software engineer for a major corporation. All of this with no college, no degree, only with Denis Waitley telling me “If you think you can you can” and those words by Napoleon Hill, “whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” 
Self development books are awesome, the greatest thoughts ever said are in them; the same with self help tapes. The amazing thing is even if you weren’t exposed to this information growing up. But if like so many you were exposed to the negative ideas that are all around and repeated by so many, even if that happened to you, you can take these books and tapes and erase that negative programming.

When Zig Ziglar gives you a check up from the neck up something happens to you that you can never change back. When you read Napoleon Hill and he says, “All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.” Or Robert Collier saying, “All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas – not money.” Or Wallace Wattles: “by thought you create the object, by action you receive it.” Or the Bible telling you to be transformed by the renewing of your mind. You will simply never go back to your negative ways. You are the raw material being transformed into a new being.

All of this is possible through words, through the magic of self development books and self help tapes.

The Journey of Self Discovery and Self Development

Taking personal responsibility for the direction of our lives is what self development is about. To be able to do a self assessment of our lives and the reasons why we are not happy takes honesty and lots of soul searching. Depending on where you are in your life, and what you are looking to achieve, (happiness, inner peace, success or better relationships), the process can take five minutes or five hours or maybe somewhere in between.

Self development is about taking the necessary action to create the life you want. It is not something that can be achieved without practice, persistence and lots of work. Life is about developing and changing to meet the different circumstances that are presented on a daily basis. Learning from the lessons that have created pain and then being able to recognise when the same situation or circumstance arises again is valuable to our own development of becoming and a better person.

Often when there are things that have happened in our lives that have created memories that keep flashing back, it is easy to forget the reasons why we have embarked on a journey of self discovery. Those memories can trigger unpleasant thoughts that make it difficult to put a plan into place to change and develop our lives the way we want them to be.

It may appear as being hard work having to develop a new way of thinking and being. The rewards of having the persistence to keep persevering at the challenge of creating a new life is well worth the effort. The process involves a number of elements. Planning, developing and then creating are just three. The commitment for the rest of our lives to always be ready to embrace change is a major focus of self development.

The benefits appear in all aspects of our lives. Our relationships with other people improve. The environment that we work can become a better place to be because of the shift in our own attitudes. Perhaps the most important and significant improvement will be how we feel about ourselves. The progress in the level of our self esteem and self confidence will shine through when we don’t allow other people to put us down or treat us badly.

This is all part of the journey of self discovery when we embark on self development – start thinking about where you are at in your life and you have started on the journey!