sivatmin (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Personal Development has helped me immensely. These jewels discussed in the audiobooks, etc from the personal development series are priceless. I'm a witness. Wayne Dyer's book "Pulling Your Own Strings" completely changed my life.

joneselius (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Yes but horrifically they all add up to the same conclusion.Any self respecting person who knows the truth about anything is mortified by what they find. It's horrible to know every time you earn money someone else has to suffer. Every time a dollar is spent a child dies and every time someone tortures themselves with religion it's just not necessary.... It's a bad, bad world... Full of good people, who are mostly opressed.

dbSecret (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

nice video...I like it...keep on the good work : )

WMPARKE (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

2 words "JIM ROHN" 1 cd i heard from him helped me changed my life. Personal Development isn't a cure!! Put into action little things life reading a book instead of watchin TV all the time, drink water instead of sodas all the time, go out and exercise start changing little things just like the guy below said, Baby steps! Its a process! Simple concepts that the whole world knows but yet they ignore.

WellnessRevolution89 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

It's not a quick-fix or something to instantly make them feel better, it's a long term solution that makes people feel better immediately because they are moving forward. Jim Rohn says it best: "You can't change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction"People feel good right away because they know they are changing their direction, and continue to buy the material long term because their destination requires them to be a better and more developed person.

WellnessRevolution89 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

A better analogy to your double-cheeseburgers would be health foods. If someone buys and consumes healthy food once and starts a health diet, they will continue to purchase and consume those videos which are healthy for them, and will probably start to exercise and use supplementation, too. People who read one personal development book realize how much it affects their thinking and ultimately their lives that they continue to read more books, then attend the seminars and listen to the CD's.

WellnessRevolution89 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

The reason people continue to read personal development books and is because they feel good growing as a person and would like to continue that personal growth by learning from those that have achieved what they want to achieve.

Kommaseir (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Faith isn't a business? Faith is actually one of the biggest businesses on the planet and extracts money from people every week! Probably to the tune of millions of dollars. So what? Should we then discount religion because there is a business associated with it? Mark did very well and I thought Steve came across very weak.

ssliderjd (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

The problem with "self-help" is all summed up in the title "self" meaning all me me me, add the "help", we assume we can just fix ourself by "1" magic book.True change and help will take more than the same brain that created the mess you're in.Most of all, we are the most impatient generation in the most impatient nation.Change doesn't happen over night, and it will only happen with a consistent and persistant effort applied in the correct direction!Baby steps all add up!

brandoH85 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I thought Mark Hansen came off very badly, he seemed insecure and his points were often irrelevant, labored or badly constructed, and the other guy does make an important point. Too many people turn to self-help for comfort, in the same way that they turn to double cheeseburgers - not to solve their underlying problems, but just for short-term relief, and thus they are never cured and always need their self-help fix. Very few programs provide tools to actually solve deep, complex issues.