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Self-Help and
Personal Development
Do
you want to be the person you always wanted to be ? Do you want to meet your
perfect match ? Do you want to avoid emotional upsets ? Do you want to achieve
self-understanding ? Do you want to win friends and influence people ?
Of
course you do
And so do lot's of other people, which is why there are so many
self-help and personal development books. But how can you separate the book that
changes your life from the book that gets given to Oxfam at the next opportunity
? Or he book that contains genuine wisdom from the book that fills you with
cranky half-baked ideas ?
The
aim of these pages is to help you find the self-help books that are both wise
and suited for you.
But
first, let me introduce myself. My name is Tim LeBon, and I work as a therapist,
counsellor, lecturer and trainer in London, England. I've just had my first book
Wise Therapy: Philosophy for Counsellors published by Sage you might
like to check it out at amazon.co.uk
.
Why should you trust me to separate the self-help wheat from chaff ? Well, apart
from a decade's experience helping
people in the therapy room, I have a first-class honours degree from Trinity
College, Oxford where I specialised in philosophy, which provides the rigour
needed to complement the psychological know-how and creativity usually found in
self-help books.
So
here are my top ten self-help books in reverse order.
10. de
Bono's Thinking Course Edward de Bono
9.
The
Consolations of Philosophy Alain de Botton
8.
Authentic
Happiness Martin Seligman
7.
Emotional
Intelligence Daniel Goleman
6. The Conquest of
Happiness Bertrand Russell -
new excerpt from Tims new book Self-Help:The Classics available on-line here
5.
How
to Win Friends and Influence People Dale Carnegie
4.
Man's
Search for Meaning Viktor Frankl
3.
The Feeling Good Handbook David Burns
2.
Don't
Sweat the Small Stuff -and it's all small stuff Richard Carlson
1.
The
Seven Habits of Highly effective People Stephen Covey
Every
one of these books has helped me in my own quest for enlightened values, good
decisions and emotional wisdom. I hope they can help you too.
But
I'd love to hear from you if you have any comments on these books, or would like
to vote for another book to be added to my list.
Do
bookmark this page and return soon, as I'll be adding more details about these
books plus readers' comments. My e-mail
address
is timlebon@aol.com
Recommended
Links
Nash Popovics comprehensive
programme for personal education can be found at http://www.personalsynthesis.org/