The Greatest Piece Of Self Development Advice

A massive thanks to the dozens of you that offered your words of self development wisdom in response to my last post “What’s Your Best Piece of Advice?” Some time on Saturday afternoon I was starting to think it wasn’t such a great idea posing the question after all.  Not because the answers were terrible, but because they were…

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More Self-Development Myths Exposed

The idea for the post entitled 7 Self Development Myths was inspired after reading a review in American Scientific Mind of the book ’50 Great Myths of Popular Psychological’  A book by the way I immediately bought and have almost finished reading. Well worth checking out. Some of the myths in the book are obvious (I really don’t believe…

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Resurrection of the Self Help Seminar

If you’re reading this on 1st April you may think the heading of this post is a joke (if that’s what you want, guess what? Life Coaching To Be Banned- honest!). That no way a few weeks after broadcasting to the world about the Death of the Self Help Seminar, Carl Harvey has done a complete volte face and…

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7 Myths of Self-Development Exposed

Like any industry, the self-development industry is rampant with half-baked ideas, poor advice and urban myths. It’s not always easy to pick the wheat from the chaff because some of them have become so ingrained in popular belief that to question them is almost seen as heresy. Well I for one love a bit of heresy (everything in moderation),…

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Death of the Self Help Seminar

This is a longish guest post, so I’m going to dispense with my normal incoherent rambling intro. What I will say though is I wrote a rather amusing (in my mind) post for the How To Be Rich and Happy blog this week entitled ‘7 Reasons Dogs Are Rich and Happy’. I hope you can check it out and…

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A Free Lunch – No Catches

BBQ family

When we launched How To Be Rich and Happy we were using my old database that contained people that had either bought or downloaded one of my 3 previous books. It was all getting a bit messy and I reluctantly had to stop selling ‘Don’t Ask Stupid Questions – There Are No Stupid Questions’ to avoid an Enron like…

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10 Self Development Books Worthy Of The Hype

Rabbit

The last post created so much interest I thought rather than wait until next week, I’d strike whilst the iron is hot and follow it up immediately. After all, I made over $3 in Amazon affiliate sales last month and I have ambitions to double that amount this month. These are the books that I have not just drank…

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Overhyped and Overrated

Boy reading a book

As you probably know I don’t like being controversial. I shy away from offering an opinion and prefer to go with the flow whenever possible. However, today it’s time to wave goodbye to Mr Nice Guy as I lay the boot into some of the most overrated, overhyped and oversold books the self development field has ever known. I…

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