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Originally Posted by Level1 
Why are so many people in this field trying to sell you something? This is why I like Steve's site. There isn't a "dangle the carrot till you buy my book" mentality here. Additionally, it would be refreshing to hear from a P.D. Guru who didn't acheive their abundance through the sale of personal development. How about a person who just runs a successful restaurant or something.
Just some observations.
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Well...do you buy books on real estate investment? What about a book on how to learn a language? A book on investing? A book on how to start a business? A book on how to do home improvement? A diet or health book?
There isn't a difference between all these authors and people writing books on personal development. They are all selling
information. I believe the reason why people expect personal development material to be low cost or free, is because:
Personal development is a life long process, is very hard in the beginning, and it requires you to change who you fundamentally are. Personal development is intangible. You are the end product. And most people aren't willing to go through the discomfort required for change, so they stay the same and then bad mouth the industry and call it a sham.
For example, let's say you want to get out of debt, therefore you buy a personal finance book like
Rich Dad. You read it, get excited and are ready to be financially free. But then one month later, you're right back to where you started. So you buy another book and another, but the cycle continues. As a result, you have 100 books on personal finance and are still broke. But you don't call the personal finance industry a sham, because the end product is money. You can feel it. You already have some of it. You can see it. You
really want more of it. But as you're not improving your finances, you say,
Well I just can't get out of debt right now. I don't think I have found the right book yet and the books I have aren't giving me the information I need. But don't you keep buying these books?
But is the book really the problem? Is it
really not giving you the information you need?
I believe that even badly written books can give us at least one working idea. If you aren't getting what you want, the problem doesn't lie in the author, but in you. It doesn't matter if the book is on personal development or not. Again, even badly written books have at least
one working idea in them, even if the idea is common sense.I have read plenty of badly written books which have given me at least one idea. And I take that idea and move on to the next book.
It's easier to start a business or buy real estate than to pursue a path of positive growth. It's easier to look for something outside of yourself to make you happy. It's easier to expect something tangiable like money, to improve your life. Most people believe they can be successful in every part of their lives without changing who they are. You can't be who you want to be, if you stay the same.
I started working on my personal development first and now everything else (money, success, love) is comes to me easily. And when I say my life is "easy', I don't mean stuff falls out of the sky. I still have to work for everything, it's just that I now have a laid back attitude about it. I'm experiencing the best life I've ever had. And I'm going to continue to work on personal development until I die!
