In this article, this will serve as the proverbial nail in the coffin for the self-help industry. I know you all have read my writings on this subject before but I'm about to take it to the next level this go round.

Of course there will be those who seek to defend the self-help industry by saying that there are successful entrepreneurs who attribute their success to having read a book like Think & Grow Rich. You'll find those people. --- BUT, what you will also notice is that...

I understand that by saying what I’m saying, I’m bucking a lot of conventional wisdom as it relates to the self-help field. In all truth, I’ve been going through what I call a “deprogramming.” That is — I’ve been on a mission to unlearn most of the stuff that I learned during my time of studying the self-help field. I’ve already tackled the so-called Law of Attraction, now I’m gonna tell you why “thinking big” as they call it is actually detrimental. Why have I been on this...

The biggest success secret is that there are no secrets. Yep, I said it.

Deep down inside, everyone knows how to succeed but few are willing to make the effort because it requires work…hard work, at that. Personally, when I used to search for “the secret to success” by buying lots of self-help books, I was getting nowhere. I actually believed that the more self-help books that I bought and read, the greater my chances were for success but I was sadly mistaken.

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This may seem like a pretty strange thing to say, that the desire for money leads to being broke, but it’s true and I’ll explain why. Not only from anecdotal experience but also from the experience of others that I’ve witnessed over the years.

Like many people, after years of being let’s say “financially-challenged,” the desire to make large sums of money hit me. After...

As you all may know, I was a huge believer in the Law of Attraction hype which became popular some 5 or so years ago. That being said, check out a post that I authored titled: The Proven Power of Human Thought. In that article, I cite scientific research which actually does prove the basis on which the Law of Attraction is founded. In that post, I believe that I made the mistake of believing that the scientific data I cited somehow proved the existence of The Law of Attraction but here is where...