How to Turn Self-Help From a Pipe Dream to a Concrete Reality

It just doesn’t seem real, does it?

Some of the outcomes you’ve seen people get from self-improvement just seem too good to be true, surreal, impossible.

On the one hand, you can kinda sorta maybe picture yourself doing something amazing with your life. Daydreaming about it feels good. But reality sets in and all that daydream confidence is replaced with cold hard self-doubt because the road ahead just seems too long.

Say you’re like me and you want to be a writer. You have to start putting your work out there but no one knows who you are, the tech stuff on its own is enough to frustrate you into quitting, and you have to learn marketing on top of having writing skills to be successful.

Most writers never get to 100 subscribers on their email list, let alone 1,000, let alone 10,000, and definitely let alone 100,000 plus, which is the type of list you usually need to have to push your book to the top of the New York Times list. It’s a lot of work.

Take any other “outside of the box” profession that self-help people talk about and the process is more or less the same. Somehow, you, as a tiny fish in the open ocean, are supposed to figure this out.