This is one of your best articles Steve. When I first found your site at the beginning of last year, 2006, I was going into the action mode instead of just reading and reading. I found your site quite good since you were describing how to improve by taking action.
I was in this self-help cycle for years. After reading and memorizing books by various authors, and literally years spent doing this, I was broke and in debt. That's when I realized that something just wasn't right.
Problem with this is that if you fail to achieve something, instead of thinking of ways to improve it by taking various actions, self-help junkies start feeling like they need a better book or a better seminar, better audio tapes and so on.
I reminded myself daily that people like John D. Rockefeller did not achieve great success because they read some self-help book, they achieved it by taking action towards their goals and just not giving up. By keeping that in the forefront of my mind, I started achieving things and started turning my life around.
That's when things started manifesting for me. Instead of just sitting and hoping for things to get better, I started taking action and just not giving up.
And I was getting caught in the same cycle again now. So, this post came at a really good time.
I started developing good habits and disciplining myself and that's when I found your site, your posts about self-discipline.
It is just soooooooooooooo easy to get caught up in reading another book and end up procrastinating taking action that needs to be taken towards your goal.
It is not even the fault of a lot of self-help junkies as you call them. It's just that when they speak to some guru about not achieving their goals, the gurus tell them that maybe they were not visualizing the goals enough or not listening to self help tapes enough. Instead of telling them that get off of your butt and start working by taking action towards your goal.
It's such a huge business, this self-help books.
Majority of them do not spend enough time focusing on the need for action.
That's why I think you must write a book which places importance on action.
If you do, then you have got a customer already for your book.