Your Instant Self-Help Strategy: Every Day, In Every Way, You're Becoming Better

By Angela Booth

Want to make your life satisfying and exciting? We all do. 

Perhaps you want enhanced confidence, along with better relationships, improved financial prospects, and a great job you love. Moreover, you want all these changes to happen quickly. Instantly, if possible.

The self-help section of any bookstore has you covered. 

 

But… Who has time to read all those books? Besides, how do you know if the strategies will work for you?

I've been testing self-help strategies for years. Some work, and extremely quickly. These tend to be old strategies onto which today's authors have placed their own spin, retelling and reselling these tried-and-tested strategies.

Whenever I suggest these "old" strategies to my writing students, they get results. 

 

Want to try them? Start with auto-suggestion

Émile Coué popularized auto-suggestion, which is the foundation of self-help literature. You can try the method yourself in a couple of minutes.

In this book, you'll find descriptions of foundational self-help methods you can try via exercises.

Try my Instant Self-Help Strategy too.

 

You'll feel better immediately, and I hope that these strategies will stay with you, to help you when you need them most.

Enjoy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Angela Booth
• Release date: Apr 9, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224929184

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Your Instant Self-Help Strategy: Every Day, In Every Way, You're Becoming Better

Your Instant Self-Help Strategy: Every Day, In Every Way, You're Becoming Better

Angela Booth

Angela Booth

Contents

Introduction: Every day in every way I'm getting better

Émile Coué and auto-suggestion

Make relaxation and auto-suggestion part of your life

Think and Grow Rich: use Coué's ideas

Help yourself with journaling

Visualization and alpha mind waves: a great self-help strategy

Your words shape your life

Set goals and follow your intuition

Set limits on your media screen-time

The Instant Self-Help Strategy: start today

Appendix: How To Win YOUR Writing (or Any) Game

Appendix 2: Convert goals into processes: habits of success

Appendix 3: How to use journaling to eliminate a major creative block

About the Author

Also by Angela Booth

Your Instant Self-Help Strategy: Every Day, In Every Way, You're Becoming Better

By Angela Booth

Copyright © 2024 Angela Booth.

All Rights Reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced in any form, anywhere, without prior written permission from the author.

Angela Booth is a copywriter, writing teacher, and author. Her books have been published by major publishers and she loves working with writers.

Introduction: Every day in every way I'm getting better

"E very day, in every way, I'm getting better and better."

Émile Coué, author of Self-Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion.

Want to make your life satisfying and exciting? We all do.

Perhaps you want enhanced confidence, along with better relationships, improved financial prospects, and a great job you love. Moreover, you want all these changes to happen quickly. Instantly, if possible.

The self-help section of any bookstore has you covered.

But… Who has time to read all those books? Besides, how do you know if the strategies will work for you?

I've been testing self-help strategies for years. Some work, and extremely quickly. These tend to be old strategies onto which today's authors have placed their own spin, retelling and reselling these tried-and-tested strategies.

Back to the future: old strategies you can use today and tomorrow

Let's look at some self-help strategies which have stood the test of time, starting with Émile Coué's book Self-Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion.

The book that inspired the self-help movement (and industry)

Did Émile Coué know that he would inspire an industry? When the French psychologist published his book in 1922, his insights were ahead of their time.

Authors influenced by Coué include Napoleon Hill (Think and Grow Rich) and Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking). These authors published two of the most popular self-help books of all time.

Although Coué isn't much remembered today, his book is often republished, because it's now in the public domain.

Coué popularized auto-suggestion, which is the foundation of self-help literature.

Try auto-suggestion yourself, right now.

Repeat twice a day, consciously (that is, be aware of the words, and think about what they mean to you): Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better.

Take several deep breaths, relax, and say the sentence, aloud if you can, or under your breath if you're with people. Feel the words, and imagine yourself getting better.

This simple process always elevates my mood.

We'll look at Coué's specific strategies in a moment. There's much more to it than a simple sentence.

For now, let's think about self-help strategies in general. Why are they so popular?

Self-help: in every era, people want to improve

Through the ages, mankind has always looked for ways to improve.

Scribes in Ancient Egypt drew hieroglyphs to create self-help papyri.

Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote his Meditations almost two thousand years ago, and his insights are useful and relevant today.

When Johannes Gutenberg invented his printing press in the 15th century, it put thousands of monastic and other scribes out of the hand-copying business.

What did he print first? A self-help book: his Gutenberg Bible. The Bible is a self-help book by any definition.

Today, self-help is a huge industry, with YouTubers and online influencers describing their efforts, and offering advice.

What about the mockers?

Self-help books are a scam…

There's a huge hunger for self-help guides. However, much writing which looks at the self-help field mocks it.

According to those who deride these books, the strategies don't work. How could they? They’re simplistic, and if they worked, we'd be surrounded by people who are perfect and powerful.

My opinion: if a self-help book remains popular for decades on end, it's helping people. If it weren't, people would stop talking about the book and encouraging others to buy it.

Unfortunately the mockers can make you feel sheepish reading self-help books. You shouldn't. Consider this. A self-help book may help you. If it