Helping Me Help Myself (Kindle Edition) by Beth Lisick

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Helping Me Help Myself (Kindle Edition) by Beth Lisick

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I found this a very intriguing book. The premise? Author Beth Lisick decides to change her life in several key areas but decides she can't do it alone. So she decides to use the experts, everyone from Richard Simmons to Jack Canfield.

The areas she wants to improve? Her career, marriage, figure, diet, home (less clutter), lack of organizational skills, etc. For marriage advice, she turns to John Gray, author of Men are from Mars, Women are From Venus and describes her reaction to more than 100 of his tips on improving male/female communication patterns and relationships.

Basically she decides that "if you can...edit out the dumb parts" he has some good advice, including the suggestion that women ask men for help directly rather than merely hinting about it. In the end she decides that her life will never measure up to the ideal marriage that is a goal but that she is comfortable with her marriage, problems and all.

This is pretty typical for the content of each chapter: explore the advice of an expert and then reflect on how it does (or doesn't) relate to the author's life, taking what works and discarding the rest.

What makes the book engaging is the author's open and honest writing about her daily trials and challenges. She and her husband face regular financial struggles and she has to resort to dressing as a banana sometimes for ad jobs that help make ends meet. She comes across as someone an average reader could understand, just trying to find a better way to cope with life but finding it hard to really stick with any program for long.

As for the "experts", none of them are described as being "the one" who saves the day for this author but there is an inside look at the differing viewpoints of such noted self-help figures as diverse as Richard Simmons (diet, weight control) and Julie Morgenstern (home organization, clutter management). The main points and highlights of each program are noted, often humorously, always in a lively way.