A Revelation

The Gods Are Cruel

Today's post is actually about personal development, but first a quick comment about yesterday's music rant. The timing couldn't have been any more comical! I rant about my 2 favourite DJs and then just today Radio1 announces that one of them is leaving the station in a few months and the other is having his weekly show reduced down to 1 week in 3... you couldn't make it up! Well, as the great philosopher said, life's a shit and then you die ;)

Sometimes the best action to take is no action...

Tonight I've had a revelation. I've finally read 1 crap self-help book too many and I'll have to restrain myself from hunting down and killing the author for inflicting such nonsense on the world. The whole self-help industry suffers from an appalling signal-to-noise ratio. I've realised that life is actually a lot simpler than I've been making it.

There's no point in me continuing to search for powerful answers in books or the blogs of gurus. I've also just cancelled the remaining life coaching sessions in the course that I'd booked with Tim Brownson. I already know all the answers I need to know. I already have the secrets to a happy and fulfilling life. All I need to do is believe in myself and take action as and when required.

Here's what I've decided I need to do to achieve my ideal life: nothing. That's right, nothing, nada, zilch. Instead I'm gonna take a long overdue chill pill, stop navel-gazing and just get on with life! I'm just gonna go with the flow. I'll do the things that I want to do, and I won't do the things that I don't. Simples.

I'm declaring myself a self-help free zone for the forseeable future! That means I probably won't be blogging about it either.

Yes, the are some useful pieces of self-help advice I've learned in the last few years. But they're all quite simple really and could fit onto 1 A4 page. If I had to identify the most important advice I could give to anyone else, it'd be to learn to think critically and question everything, but then also know when to stop questioning! If you can do that, all the answers you need for your life are already within your grasp. So have faith in yourself, dive off that 1000ft cliff and stop spectating life or trying to find all the answers (like I've been doing). Just get on with it!