Improving your life is the foremost subject of self help books
. If your present life is not in harmony with your idea of a fulfilling life, then there is a real problem. Self help books promote the idea that the first help you can get in trying to change your life must come from you. Help from other people are merely secondary because it's only you who knows your own conflicts in life. Self help books would only probe into the root cause of your problem and categorized it based on existing statistics. A likely solution would then be proposed to you and it is you who will finally make the choice on what to do. Constant reading of self help books is an encouraging practice apart from being a hobby but you have to act on the positive suggestions and concepts from the book. Searching and learning helpful ideas from books would only be favorable to you if you would apply what you read to everyday living.
The change in your life will start when you grasped the idea from self help books and put it to practice. Majority of people who read self help books got disappointed in time because they expect that change would happen in the blink of an eye. They have not embraced the truth that change will only occur by taking small steps on the way to improvement. There are problems and issues that are as old as the person himself thus patience and will power is needed in this situation. The way you are living your life right now is dictated by your subconscious mind. What is inside your subconscious is affecting your reality. The negative emotions and distorted information that is programmed deep in your consciousness are holding you back.
You must start to lead your subconscious out of its negative comfort zone and strive to focus it on a different reality which is the reality you truly dream of.