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As the writer and editor for a web-based self-help superstore, you’d think I’d be able to provide an answer to a question such as, “What’s the best self help product for me?” in a blink. My apologies, but I just can’t. Because the question immediately begs a question of its own.

What’s the best Self Help Product for You?

When you say, ‘What’s the best self-help product for me?’ what precisely do you mean when you say ‘me’?

Now I don’t want to get embroiled in an existential discussion, here. The nature of reality and identity will have to wait for another time. However, just think back over the last handful of days. Think about a situation when you were relaxed (taking a deep bath, maybe). Contemplate a situation when you were stressed out (your PC kept crashing). Think about a situation when you were seething (your PC still kept crashing and the IT support team suggested you try switching it off and back on again). Think about a situation when you were happy (drinking perfect coffee with great friends). Consider all those times: was it in reality the same ‘me’ who occupied each of those little moments in time? Is the enraged ‘me’ the same as the happy ‘me’? For most of us, the answer is no. We aren’t the same individual from one day to the next, and on our more turbulent days, we’re not even the same person from one minute to the next.

Walt Whitman put it most succinctly, I think, when he wrote ‘I contain multitudes’.

We all do. We each of us ‘contain multitudes’.

So, why then do you think (or even hope) there is a self-help product out there that is absolutely designed for you, a best self help product?

Which ‘you’ do you mean, exactly?

Luckily, there is a whole range of self-help books and motivating products out there, multitudes in fact. And not only could you find the best self-help product for you, you could find the best self-help product for all the’ yous’ you contain.

Self Help books and products are what we live and breathe at The Happiness Superstore…

Best of luck. To all of you.