I’m continually amazed at how much information is available to us today if we just take a little time to sit down and absorb it. I’m glad I was born into my own particular generation, before the advent of the computer. Beginning with Melville’s Moby Dick I developed a true love of books and I still read two to three books every month. Because I’m a tad scattered, I’ll actually read certain books two or three times. I want the information to soak into my cells and make sure “I get it!”
A couple of years ago after a failed marriage and finding myself indentured to a sweat equity group in the restaurant industry I got involved with my own personal development. If I have a positive trait, it’s that I’m honest with myself and I realized early on that pointing fingers at other people never helped me solve my own problems. I also realized that if I was going to make any inroads with the character known to everyone as “Bill” I’d have to stand in front of a mirror. Then and only then would I have a chance to make progress because the operative word in the previous sentence was "OWN." The guy in the mirror was responsible for my problems, not someone else. During the two years I’ve read close to thirty books on personal development and there are even days where I think I’m making progress. Of course, being human and worse yet, “Irish” there are days where I still get to sit in my very own personal development corner with my dunce cap on. Those days generally follow a particularly good “Pity Party” I had for myself or when my “Infamous Temper” makes an appearance to remind me it’s still a viable part of the family. But on the whole I am slowly making progress and moving forward.
One of the things I became fascinated with were the constant references to the “Laws of Attraction.” I am a very skeptical person and when I first started to hear folks talk about it my natural reaction was to shoot holes in the concept and be done with it. Oddly enough though, the more I read, the more it made sense. Even stranger, the more I examined my own life, the more obvious and logical it became. I could literally examine my thoughts during certain periods of my life and see the parallels everywhere. My God! I really was creating my life, sometimes for the good, sometimes more recently for the bad. The other thing I noticed was that the successful people I observed, whether they were in business, sports or the personal development authors that I was reading, they all referenced this law, “The Law of Attraction.” The common threads were “You get what you’re focused on,” “Gratitude,” and “Giving.” The message was always the same, just packaged differently.
I have a list of some of my favorite books on this site that I would highly recommend. My favorites however are pictured above. Of this group I’ll admit the offering from Jerry and Esther Hicks, “The Laws of Attraction,” (The Teachings of Abraham) resonate with me. ME! Imagine a book about a group of non physical beings speaking through a lady named Esther Hicks all the while her husband Jerry transcribes away. I just knew I wouldn’t believe a word of it and now I’ve read the book and subsequent offerings by the Hicks several times. It just makes so damn much sense that a classic naysayer like me can’t find any flaws what so ever in the theory. Now, obviously, that’s what I’ve enjoyed reading and studying and maybe it’s not something you can buy into. It doesn’t matter, because there are plenty of great books with a lot of helpful information in them that you can buy into. So, if you’re looking to do a little tweaking on yourself going into 2009, take a look at a couple of the books I’ve listed above and see what you think. Oh, and I’m currently listening to “Think and Grow Rich,” by Napoleon Hill on CD. For those of you that just don’t enjoy reading, go buy yourself a Bose Head Set and just sit back and hit “Play.” It’ll be well worth it.
A couple of years ago after a failed marriage and finding myself indentured to a sweat equity group in the restaurant industry I got involved with my own personal development. If I have a positive trait, it’s that I’m honest with myself and I realized early on that pointing fingers at other people never helped me solve my own problems. I also realized that if I was going to make any inroads with the character known to everyone as “Bill” I’d have to stand in front of a mirror. Then and only then would I have a chance to make progress because the operative word in the previous sentence was "OWN." The guy in the mirror was responsible for my problems, not someone else. During the two years I’ve read close to thirty books on personal development and there are even days where I think I’m making progress. Of course, being human and worse yet, “Irish” there are days where I still get to sit in my very own personal development corner with my dunce cap on. Those days generally follow a particularly good “Pity Party” I had for myself or when my “Infamous Temper” makes an appearance to remind me it’s still a viable part of the family. But on the whole I am slowly making progress and moving forward.
One of the things I became fascinated with were the constant references to the “Laws of Attraction.” I am a very skeptical person and when I first started to hear folks talk about it my natural reaction was to shoot holes in the concept and be done with it. Oddly enough though, the more I read, the more it made sense. Even stranger, the more I examined my own life, the more obvious and logical it became. I could literally examine my thoughts during certain periods of my life and see the parallels everywhere. My God! I really was creating my life, sometimes for the good, sometimes more recently for the bad. The other thing I noticed was that the successful people I observed, whether they were in business, sports or the personal development authors that I was reading, they all referenced this law, “The Law of Attraction.” The common threads were “You get what you’re focused on,” “Gratitude,” and “Giving.” The message was always the same, just packaged differently.
I have a list of some of my favorite books on this site that I would highly recommend. My favorites however are pictured above. Of this group I’ll admit the offering from Jerry and Esther Hicks, “The Laws of Attraction,” (The Teachings of Abraham) resonate with me. ME! Imagine a book about a group of non physical beings speaking through a lady named Esther Hicks all the while her husband Jerry transcribes away. I just knew I wouldn’t believe a word of it and now I’ve read the book and subsequent offerings by the Hicks several times. It just makes so damn much sense that a classic naysayer like me can’t find any flaws what so ever in the theory. Now, obviously, that’s what I’ve enjoyed reading and studying and maybe it’s not something you can buy into. It doesn’t matter, because there are plenty of great books with a lot of helpful information in them that you can buy into. So, if you’re looking to do a little tweaking on yourself going into 2009, take a look at a couple of the books I’ve listed above and see what you think. Oh, and I’m currently listening to “Think and Grow Rich,” by Napoleon Hill on CD. For those of you that just don’t enjoy reading, go buy yourself a Bose Head Set and just sit back and hit “Play.” It’ll be well worth it.
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