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Do you read a lot of self help books? Because many people that I know are constantly reading, forever learning, forever searching, deepening their understanding not reading that changes your life, but doing.

Continuously reading self help books is much like collecting a whole library of brochures and travel guides about some beautiful place that you would love to visit. You’ve poured over photographs, read the experts’ recommendations, imagined yourself relaxing on that beautiful white sandy beach, immersed yourself in the idea of being there. But, then, you never actually make the reservation or purchase the ticket. What’s my point? Reading about how to achieve the life that you really want and actually doing what you’ve learned are two entirely different things. Reading the feel-good stories about how others have taken the required action and, as a consequence, changed their lives, will give you that longing feeling inside. But tomorrow morning, when you drag yourself out of bed for another day of going through the motions, what has changed? Little or nothing! When you face another day of worry, doubt, financial worries or low self-esteem, what good will all the reading have done you? If anything, it will have made you even more restless and more dissatisfied than you were in the first place.

Reading, understanding and intellectually appreciating what’s required for you to change your life will change nothing in your life until you put your learning into everyday practice. And here we encounter an obstacle that is simply too big for so-called normal people – they’re fearful of taking what they believe as some really risky leap of faith.

If you’ve been lucky enough to come across a self improvement book where you’re given step-by-step tips on how to change your life (and there aren’t many of them – most self help books are just ‘feel-good books’) then it should have dawned on you by now that you don’t need to make any leap of faith. All you’ve got to do is take little steps, every day, that will awaken you from the stupor in which the vast majority of normal people are only existing.

If you want to change your life, you must change the way you’re living day to day at present. Change can start small – even by simply changing your morning routine – because small things shock your subconscious mind out of its comfort zone. And once out you will start to realize that absolutely everything in your life can be done differently. When this realization hits you, you’ll find yourself in a completely different place – where action that was otherwise unthinkable suddenly become obvious – and easily doable.

In fact, it’s up to you to start doing the things that will change your life, to stop reading and start doing.

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