Do you like reading Motivational books? Do they really help?

I love motivational books. I find them quite uplifting and positive and think they are good for most people to read especially when discouraged.

I enjoy reading inspirational true stories, although I prefer watching them. I seem to feel re-energised by someone’s own account of success over adversity be it in a personal battle or financial success. And I often find myself dipping into these sorts of books when I need a lift and some encouragement with “The Pursuit of Happyness” being a favourite, and trust me there is a lot more in Chris Gardner’s book than made it into the movie. I use to enjoy the inspirational books which you could class as “self help” but looking at my books shelves which are stuffed with these sorts of books I’ve drifted away from them. The simple reason being is that whilst these self help books may inspire whilst offering advice the advice is not always for everyone and often not for me. I don’t think there is anything wrong in reading inspirational books as long as you put them in context, that they are someone else’s story and use that as a fuel to keep you going. The minute you start feeling jealous of someone’s inspirational achievements is when you need to walk away and reassess what you really want, your life or someone elses.

Hello Kiran ji, I am agree with you. Motivational books and inspiring stories are helpful to us. When ever we are disappointed few motivational words help us in recovering. I think every good books help us in some way.

Hi kiran, i like to hear such things than reading, sometimes i watch in tv some of the motivational programs. Have a nice day/night.

I'm afraid motivational books do quite the opposite for me. I hate these "make yourself better" type books because they depress me! The "If I can do it, so can you" attitude just makes me think, "Why are you writing books?"

My favorite motivational book at the moment is called 'Think and Grow Rich' by Napoleon Hill. It's an old book (written in the early twentieth century) and written in an old fashioned language style, which takes a little getting used to but the advice in it is sound and promotes positive thinking and goal achievement through autosuggestion to your subconscious mind. You can download the audio version of it.

yeah.. I do read motivational books.. in fact I like to read social awareness kind of books too.. now a days people are distracting towards books.. and world moving towards internet. but books have their own charm.. :-)

Hi Kiran! I do not get much time now a days to read such books. However, I love to read motivational books. It is correct that they help a lot molding and refining our thoughts. Once I read 'Magic of thinking big'. I liked it very much. I had borrowed it from someone initially, then I bought a fresh copy of it and read it many times. Interestingly, one day my younger brother told me that he read a very good motivational book and he is thinking of buying it, he did not tell me the name of the book. Next day, when he came back and showed me the book of his choice. I was surprised to see that he also bought the same book. (he did not check from me or say rather was not aware that I've already purchase the book).

I haven't read any motivational books. But I have a very impressionable mind. Specially if it's from someone I respect. I don't know why I haven't read any (maybe because I could never find the time), but I think it would greatly help me if I did.

Yes, I like to read but I did not read much. I once read a book titled' The Law of Attraction'. I don't know the author, sorry. I also did not know if The Law of Attraction book is motivational book or not? I enjoyed read that book, because it can make me think positive. In my opinion, every one likes to read books which contains motivational without exception.

Yes of course. I got lots of tips and peps from some of the motivational books I read in the past. Of late, I feel the latest ones are just expressing the old tips in a new way. Only words changed but the theme is the same. So, I avoid reading a lot and be selective.

When I made my one venture into MLM, we were encouraged to read a lot of these books, and I bought several of them. I think they were designed to keep the downlines hanging in there. I finally dropped to customer status anyway because the books didn't keep me motivated to keep telling everyone I knew about my product to the point where I was afraid they would turn and run when they saw me coming. These books are full of people who had to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps and were able to use MLM to get their lives and finances up to normal again and then even made them rich after that. Occasionally these books just try to inspire you with positive thinking, but I think they ignore certain truths about our spirtitual condition and either leave God out or portray him as someone who will give us anything we want if we just think positively enough. I don't agree theologically with either position, so I've pretty much stopped reading these books. I do, though, derive inspiration from reading true stories written by people who have lived through tough times. One book that has been special to me was A Pioneer's Search for an Ideal Home, by Judson. It was written by a pioneer woman who came west in a covered wagon and shared the whole experience in detail from the perspective of her Christian faith. Everytime I think of the things she went through, it makes me more thankful for the conveniences we take for granted. If I've had a very busy work day, I may be very tired and want to go out for dinner. Or after a long day of travel in an air-conditioned car to a far away place, I'm all ready to go out for a hot meal and bed down in a comfortable motel. Those are options for me. But those pioneer women traveled all day inside the wagon or walking beside it, sometimes even giving birth or burying a child or spouse along the trail. At the end of each day, they prepared a meal from what they had in their wagon or what the men were able to shoot that day, and they prepared it at an undeveloped campsite with no plumbing, all the while on guard against hostile native nations. I remember when this woman finally got to the end of the journey in Oregon, it was raining, they were tired, and they still had to prepare a meal under those conditions. If we go camping on vacation and it is pouring down rain, we can opt to just change our plans and get a motel and eat out. But we hardly ever think of this as something to be very thankful for , anymore than we think to thank God every day for indoor plumbing, hot water, electricity, etc. We are just used to turning a handle or flipping a swtich and complain if something doesn't work.

Anything that helps you is worth the time. If you only got one thing out of every stop at the book self or seminar you might accumulate enough to make you wise. The thing is though will it have an effect on you or change something for the better. I think it has to actually work. Organized from the inside out, I found good because as she said what prompted her to write it was she would do things like loose her keys and miss important events. It is good to find out what prompted the author to write the book in the first place.

I agree with you. Not always but at times they also have effect on my subconscious mind. Many times they do help. Especially when we are in confused or depressed state of mind they tend us to gain self confidence as well face any adverse situation

We need motivational books to give us a right direction. Last year, I went through a had time. I began to read some motivational books.Accidentally, I came across some good books that really helped me a lot. I got to know myself better and tried to become more powful. Now, I deliberately spend most of the time to do the practical things to enrich my knowledge and enhance my ability. Sometimes when I have some doubts in minds, I will turn to books for help.