| There are some universal things that we all crave, some in greater proportion than others but every person, living or dead has aspired to the having the basics of life.?We all want food, water, and shelter the mandatory requirements but from those basics in life we all divide.?From there we see that some want Porsche's, some want boats, and some just want the fly's to stay off their faces long enough to eat breakfast.??What we want is what defines us as people, as individuals.Its our requests, our wish lists, and our secret desires that can sum up us to others, if only they knew.Imagine if we had to wear a typed out list of our wants on our chests for all to see, wouldn't we all be embarrassed.?I know personally there are certain line items that I would love to have blacked out, but still I think, thanks to a lot of talking, writing and reading of others books, I have narrowed my want list significantly.?Much of my reading has been in the self-help realm, either in growing personal finances, growing spiritually, or growing personally, even inter-personally.?I was even recommended a book by a reader on improving the success of marriage, so I read it.?And, as even my nine year old realized, I am not even dating anyone.?Still what is useful later can be useful now and it was.?As is my norm when I read a book that is not pure fiction I keep a highlighter nearby and when something jumps out as an Aha moment I color it in for later re-reading.?That book has more yellow than not.?Oh man am I in trouble.?The stack of books is growing above my headboard, many finished and some I have not finished and not because I don't find them useful, its just that I am completely Attention deficit disorder and need to go buy and start the next one I hear about.?Right now I am juggling between three.?One fiction and two non-fictions.?One of the non fiction books is funny and slightly educational, and the other is pure education and not terribly humorous, although he tries to be.?Sigh, its okay I chuckle to myself just to give him props.?And the last one is like candy, it's pure fiction and so far not particularly well written fiction, so I can only take it in small doses, even though I like the escape.?Even the worst Help-book I have read has had similarities to the best ones in that it is written to people with similar goals.?Like me they are all people like-minded in their desires to one-up them self in personal growth.?Similar in many ways if not in the way we dress.?? |
| Similar in many ways if not in the way we dress.??Me a suit, them robes made from hemp and sandals, or the scents we like to spray on our bodies.?Me I like soap and a tiny spritz of a popular cologne, enough only to be enjoyed by someone close enough to find a chest hair in their teeth.?They I would imagine prefer the scent of natural body oils, and the pungent aroma of patchouli.?What we do have in common is a desire to find someone who actually knows what we want to learn, which is how to be happy at a core level, how to have long lasting relationships despite the ups and downs of life, and how to be successful in whatever way it means most to us.?My reading pile get larger because I am looking for answers too, and I do find some here and there, but what I am finding the more I look, is that the answers are similar, across all authors, all books, and need a summation.?One for the masses so to speak.?One book to bind them all, as Tolkien would say, and that is what I am going to do.?This will be a large project involving a lot of reading, and advice which will be given by those trusted to me, of the best of the best of personal growth, self help books out there.?I want to know which books, and which authors are the ones you think are the best, what struck you about the book as being the best thought you gleaned, and which ones I should add to my list.?I am hoping to one way or the other create the granddaddy of?the self help genre, the one that sums up them all, the Cliffs notes for all personal growth, the one with the answer to life, the universe and everything and in doing so make me a Guru.?I will at this point, once I accept the crown, change my name because no one who has a bit of self esteem would ever kneel at the feet of a David Cook, so I will then ask for names, really smart sounding names.?Names that make me sound distant, ethnic, and not born into a decent family that travelled around with the Navy.?But rather one that sounds like I was recently planted here by a supreme race, or leader, one without past or present indiscretions, one that has never done the things that I won't tell you about, or want the things that I would black out on my visible list.?Email me a list of your favorite, or your entire bookshelf of self help books and try to give me some insight into which ones are your favorites.?If you can't be bothered to tell me, or don't remember, then just the titles please, but don't add any real stinkers.?If the message is to lie on a bed of Anatolian fire ants, while chanting mantras about not needing to wear underwear I can skip it.?But all others please send them.?Looking forward to first publishing a list of all the books you(Even you whom I have never met, no, especially you)?send me and I will rank them as best I can in order of which ones are most submitted so you can see where your favs are.?Then I will get to work.??Guru Dave |
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