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| Helping Me Help Myself: One Skeptic, Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the Brink of the Comfort Zone | 
| Author: Beth Lisick
Publisher: William Morrow
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (78 reviews)
Sales Rank: 144948
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.3
ISBN: 0061143960
Dewey Decimal Number: 818.5409
EAN: 9780061143960
ASIN: 0061143960
Publication Date: January 1, 2008
Release Date: January 2, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 Half a book is better than none. July 14, 2008
The premise was an interesting one -- best-selling author Beth Lisick would tackle one "personality flaw" per month for a year, enlisting the help of experts in the appropriate field. She had me at "Hello!"
However, though I loved Lisick's shoot-from-the-hip style and ease with words, something was seriously lacking. I never felt that she was giving it her "all," seriously attempting to make changes. The whole thing seemed sort of half-hearted. 30 days (sometimes less) is hardly enough time to make lasting life changes. And she never tells us what the actual results were. Whether we're talking about financial independence (Suze Orman) or exercising more (Richard Simmons), the reader is left hanging -- did Lisick improve her financial situation? Did she get more fit? Is her closet still organized???
I felt like I read the first half of a book that wasn't completed. And while it was quite enjoyable, I still feel like I got ripped off.
 Skeptical of its value July 13, 2008
I can't vouch that this book is truly worth your while. You might not find yourself able to quite identify with the character and, as a result, not able to finish the book. Not recommended.
Not cool July 11, 2008
Beth Lisick takes an interesting premise and turns it into a thoroughly catty, whiny, unprofessional, rambling book. If you want memoir, there are better ones; if you're actually looking for a breakdown of what's available in the world of self-help, you absolutely won't get one, and you may just get attacked. Lisick probably intended to sound self-deprecating, but instead she comes off as hipper-than-thou, and ruthless in her criticism of middle-class Christians. Gaping sections of the book are devoted to explanations of why she doesn't have the time, money, or interest to follow any of the programs through to their natural completion. Much of the text focuses on how she squandered her book advance and was therefore unable join the self-help programs she was supposed to be writing about. Two months in a row, we get one-page mopes about why she was too tuckered-out or sickened to try the programs planned for those months. All the while she mocks people with more serious approaches to work, child-rearing, and money than her own, and portrays their programs as so obviously stupid as to instantly supply a book's worth of humor.
If you want to see this topic treated right, check out Practically Perfect in Every Way by Jennifer Niesslein.
No Self-Help Going On Here July 10, 2008
I really wanted to like the author's journey into the self-help jungle. I mean, if there's really a self-help guru out there that can honestly help people, it would certainly save lots of folks a heck of a lot of money spent every year on therapy and medications.
Unfortunately, the author never actually embraces the advice of the self-help gurus and that's what you have to do if you really want to change the mess in your life - choose a program and dive on in. Live it and honestly give it a chance. I did not feel the author did this at all.
All I came away from after reading this book is that she had a great idea, managed to get herself an advance, wrote a couple of chapters, probably figured out that the idea may have been good but she wasn't buying into it anymore and had accepted and spent the advance so had to finish it up.
I didn't find the book funny, enlightening or even interesting. The only reason I finished it was because I felt obligated to review it.
 Great Idea to tackle all those self help books in 1 year!! July 6, 2008
Great Book, laughed out loud many times!! I am one of those people that has started about a dozen self help books and never quite finshed them or completely followed through with each concept. So after reading Beth's book I have come up with my own monthly list of self help Guru's to tackle! I have changed a few and mixed up the order based on my current needs. June was "helping me help myself", July 1-2-3 Magic (need to get the kids in line first), August Jack Canfield, September Stephen Covey, October Dr. Oz, November Julie Morganstern, December Suzy Orman, January Depok Chopra and If I am up for it I may just read Silvia Browne for the kicks in February! Wish me luck!
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