Self Help Yourself

Hello! This episode, I review Make Your Bed, which is a book by Admiral William Harry McRaven. This book started as a commencement speech he gave at The University of Texas at Austin in 2014. The book is ten lessons he learned from his training as a Navy SEAL and has applied in his life. It's a great book. It is short. It is direct. It makes you feel powerful. And I am pretty sure if you read it you can become a frogman...if you know, you know (iykyk)Email me at the podcast at selfhelpyourselfpodcast@gmail.com

Hello! This episode is about Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert. She came to fame with Eat, Pray, Love. I did not read that book, but I did read Big Magic. I actually rather liked this book. She works to give you permission to be creative, whatever that may mean to you. She stresses that you do not have to get famous or make money with your "art" to be creative. Just get out there and make something! Hopefully, you feel motivated to read her book after you listen to this podcast.Email me at selfhelpyourselfpodcast@gmail.com

This book is not for the weak. Eddie Jaku survived the Holocaust. He is an Auschwitz survivor who gives us some profound lessons about happiness in this book. He maintains that happiness is a choice, that there are certain factors that help us choose to be happy, but that ultimately, it is up to each of us to choose to be happy. What am I going to do? Not agree with this guy!? It's a great book, but a little heavy for casual reading.Email the podcast at selfhelpyourselfpodcast@gmail.com

I'm back!! After a long Holiday break and the craziness of the New Year, I am bringing Self Help Yourself back with a banger of a first episode. I read Carry Fisher's The Princess Diaries. I was blown away by her writing...which my wife informed me is well-known to be amazing (Carry has helped write quite a few good movies and written some other books). I found her writing to be wonderfully personal and poetic. This is a must read, and not just for Star Wars fans...even Star Trek fans would like this, I think.Email the podcast at selfhelpyourselfpodcast@gmail.com

This episode is a wonderful conversation with Will R Young, a CFP, stoic philosopher, and the author of The Enough Equation. I messed up royally with the technology required in this episode, so it is a bit of a Frankenstein's Monster situation...just in time for Thanksgiving. No better time for a conversation about trying to detach from our American Materialism. I hope you enjoy it. You can find Will at WiLLRYoung on YouTube and WiLL Young CFP on LinkedIn. He is also on TikTok as @thorlightningingzeusthunder and X/Twitter at @Will_Young26.

I review Cait Flanders' book, The Year of Less. In the spirit of less, I have very little negative to say about it. I enjoyed this book quite a lot. She saves the more self-helpy portion for the end after telling you of her experience with her own experiment. It is a refreshing book that organically highlights some common and helpful self improvement tips. Please go check it out.Email me at selfhelpyourselfpodcast@gmail.com

This book is a real mishmash for me. It reads like it was written in the 1950s but references stuff that has happened in the relative recent past. The book was published in 2004 for goodness sake! I have organized my comments about this book in order of worst tip to bets tips. Honestly, there are some fantastic tips in here that I have used to Big Success in my Relationships. And you can too!Email the podcast at selfhelpyourselfpodcast@gmail.com

Hey gang. I interviewed Colby Wilk, an Intuitive Guide and Wayfinder. He is all about what he calls self-acceptance. We discussed his advice for working toward self-acceptance. He explained that improvement he sees in his clients usually happens once that person accepts the situation or circumstances that person is in and then concentrates on learning from, rather than fighting through, the situation. You want the nitty-gritty, dive into the episode.Find Colby using the following:http://www.colbywilk.com/https://www.youtube.com/c/ColbyWilkhttps://www.facebook.com/p/Colby-Wilk-Wayfinder-100063704523871/https://www.instagram.com/colbyswilk/Email the podcast at selfhelpyourselfpodcast@gmail.com

Hello all! This episode is all about Charlamagne tha God's book, Get Honest or Die Lying: Why Small Talk Sucks. This book is fantastic! I really enjoyed it. I feel like I learned a lot...even if his friend Aaron thinks I am the enemy. Come see what I loved so much about this book and then check out the book for yourself!Email the pod at selfhelpyourselfpodcast@gmail.com

I listened to Drew Afualo's LOUD this week. Spoiler alert: I did not really like it. But it's not for me. In fact, I am the enemy. So, I think it's understandable why I wouldn't like it, to an extent. But the book illustrates some of the living contradiction that Drew Afualo embodies. She claims that our society is driven by pleasing men, but she has made her living by making fun of men. She claims that women should de-center men from their lives, but men sit at the center of her professional life. There are some positive aspects to the book - you'll have to listen to my episode to find out what I think those aspects are.Email me at selfhelpyourselfpodcast@gmail.com

Sorry this one is getting to you a tad late. But I think the wait will be worth it. I review the fantastic David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell. I will be reviewing more books from him. David and Goliath is a wonderfully positive book that gave me some great insights on how I could improve how I view myself and how I try to deal with obstacles.Write me at selfhelpyourselfpodcast@gmail.com

Hey all! This episode is about Lysa TerKeurst's Good Boundaries and Goodbyes. It was published in 2022. Lysa is a NYT best selling author. She has written 12 books so far in her career as an author. She is a founder of Proverbs 31 Ministries and does a lot of preaching and speaking with religious groups.The book is a good introduction to setting and enforcing boundaries. I think it could have been more specific, included more concrete examples of good boundaries and appropriate consequences. The best thing this book does is justify why boundaries are not evil or immoral. But this book should not be your only stop on the journey to living with boundaries.Write me at selfhelpyourselfpodcast@gmail.com

Hello! I hope you are having a wonderful week. I review Don Miguel Ruiz's book The Four Agreements this episode. Spoiler alert: I did not like it. The best part about it are the actual agreements he specifies, but the rest of the book is basically flimsy gibberish. So, maybe just find a summary of it online somewhere...or listen to this podcast to get the best from this book!selfhelpyourselfpodcast@gmail.com

This episode, I am reviewing Katie Ledecky's Just Add Water. It is a memoir about her youth and journey as a swimmer. She is the most decorated American female swimmer in history. Her memoir focuses on her life as a swimmer. She glosses over most of her childhood and adolescence. She focuses on the swimming and her journey to multiple Olympic gold medals. There isn't much struggle discussed in the book. There are no juicy details about her life or any discussion of the difficulties of adolescence. Overall, the book felt a little bit shallow (pun intended), but there are some decent insights into goal setting. So at least that's something.Email me at selfhelpyourselfpodcast@gmail.com

AND WE'RE BACK!! I apologize for such a long hiatus. Summer travel kind of killed me off for a bit there. My kids are back in school and I am on the road to recovery. So, here is a fitting book, The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk. I try to summarize the arguments against the sciencey part of this book, but know that I liked this book overall. Big takeaway: don't let trauma rule your life; we can heal from trauma.Hope you enjoy the listen!

My apologies for the late release on this. I honestly thought I had done it only to find out that I had clearly not. This book is amazing. No bones about it and no need to beat around the bush. I loved it. Yes, it has some serious language and sure, it deals with some very dark topics (mental health and suicide) so definitely do not listen to it with kids around. But it is so refreshingly honest and sincere that it is hard for me to hold the language issues against it. Maria Bamford is amazing and if you can, you should listen to it with her voice. It's a wonderful experience.Email me at the podcast at selfhelpyourselfpodcast@gmail.com

This is a great book. Very interesting. I love the stories that Charles Duhigg includes. Duhigg does a great job illustrating how powerful habits are, how difficult they can be to change, and how impactful replacing one bad habit with one good habit can be. It is a motivational book. It has changed how I think about habits and agency. However, I think that if you are looking for a more helpful book on habit forming, you would be better served by reading and implementing Atomic Habits.Email me at selfhelpyourselfpodcast@gmail.com

I'm back! I apologize for the long hiatus. I was out of town and then just sick and kind of fed up with stuff. But, now I am back! Which is kind of perfect given the book I review this episode. Grit, by Angela Duckworth, is a great book about rising above failure and endurance. I liked the last third much better than the first two, and I think her pointers on how to parent to develop gritty kids are fantastic!Email the pod at selfhelpyourselfpodcast@gmail.com

This episode, I tidy up my act...and my sock drawer. This one is all about Marie Kondo's book about tidying up our house and tidying up our lives. I actually liked the book, though I think it is catered to the singles out there in the world...which maybe wasn't a great choice on my part for the Valentine's Week episode. Oh well! Come see what sparked joy for me in this book and listen to whether or not the Konmarie method worked for my sock drawer!Email the podcast at selfhelpyourselfpodcast@gmail.com

I hope you all had a wonderful week. This episode is my review of Jonathan Haidt's The Anxious Generation. It is a very interesting book. I think it is well presented, well thought out, and well argued. I agreed with just about everything in this book. I would love for you to point out to me where I, and Mr. Haidt, are wrong. Email the podcast at seflhelpyourselfpodcast@gmail.com