Self-help in Singapore

It is never wrong nor shameful to ask for help. Life is never a smooth road, there will be obstacles hindering your path, there will be times when problems cannot be solved singly, but require help from other people. But first you must take actions and make the first move, you have to help yourself first by being willing to seek for help, by working on your thinking and attitude first because how can people help you if you are not willing to help yourself? How can people help you if you do not ask for help?

Here is a wise quotation from the good book: “Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and the door will be opened.” As you can see from this quotation every key word “Ask”, “Seek” and “Knock” requires action!

The lifestyle in Singapore can be very tough, hectic and stressful at times. Many a time, people fall and are unable to get up because they have given up on themselves.

Through self-help, it is possible for you to get up again, and be even stronger than ever. Do not allow stress to take over you, overcome the pressure and stress level and it will help you become a better person with more patience for yourself and others. There are actually no failures, only learning experiences, the only failures are those who have given up on their dreams.

There is a popular saying: “God only help those who help themselves.” Self-help is basically taking responsibility for your results and willing to do the necessary changes in your actions to improve the results.

There are many self-help books available at bookshops and libraries and now with the Internet you can buy ebooks and read many articles on self-help and learn what it takes to become a better person and live a better life.

The self-help movement started from the broadcasts of Earl Nightingale. In 1956, Earl Nightingale recorded his essay The Strangest Secret.

"Nothing Great Was Ever Accomplished Without Inspiration"
- Earl Nightingale

Earl Nightingale is known as the Dean of Personal Development, he was very popular for over three decades and was heard on over 1000 radio stations across the United States, Canada and 10 foreign countries. He is one of the most listened to broadcasters in history.

Earl's broadcasts and his recordings triggered the self-help movement and his broadcasts not only give advice and guidance, it is a call to action. People don't just listen to Earl, they take notes and replay his messages over and over. Millions of people worldwide took his advice to make real changes in their lives.

The Strangest Secret is the first spoken message ever to receive a Gold Record by selling over one million copies. This triumph led Earl and his business partner, Lloyd Conant, to form Nightingale-Conant Corporation, a company dedicated to helping people achieve personal success. The Strangest Secret is about the power to choose and self-help is about making the right choices to achieve the right results in life.

Self-help precedes personal development because you can have the best personal development resources for you but if you are not willing to help yourself by taking action and making use of the resources, than it is as good as not have any personal development resources at all!

Self-help is critical to the success of any personal development resources, seminars or workshops. There is a wise saying: A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step and self-help is the first step.

Most people fail in life because they were not willing to take the first step to help themselves and that is why self-help is critical to any form of success whether it is in a relationship, business or project. “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the cause of it all?”

Self-help will only happen when one is willing to take responsibility for his results and is willing to make the necessary changes to change the results. For things to change, first you must change.

Albert Einstein said: “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

Self-help starts with the willingness to make changes and take right actions to achieve the results you want in life. Many self-help books will tell you the same. You are where you are today it is because of your past thoughts, speeches and actions. Be careful of what you think, say and do because they are the causes and the effects will be the results you will experience in your life.

What are you thinking and saying to yourself right now? Self-help also depends on your self-talk, you are what you think or what you say to yourself. It is not what others say to you that is going to make a big difference to your life, it is what you say to yourself and what you believe!

In a nutshell, self-help is about being honest with yourself and facing your fears and challenges in life with clarity.

Here’s a million-dollar success formula for you: If not you, who? If not now, when? It is not how? It is why? Socrates is well known for this advice: “Know Thyself”. Self-help starts with knowing yourself and what you really want in life and the burning desire to do whatever it takes ethically to achieve your dream.