Read lots of self help books? Because there are millions of people who are forever reading, forever learning, forever searching, broadening their knowledge not reading that changes your life, doing changes your life.

Endlessly reading self help books is just like gathering loads of holiday brochures and travel books about some beautiful place that you would love to visit. You’ve seen photographs, read all the reviews, imagined yourself sipping a cocktail looking out over that breath-taking sunset, immersed yourself in the idea of being there. However, you never actually make the reservation or purchase the ticket. What’s my point? Reading about how to achieve the life that you really want and actually doing what you’ve learned are two entirely different things. Reading the feel-good stories about how others have taken the required action and, as a consequence, changed their lives, may well give you that warm feeling inside. But tomorrow morning, when you drag yourself out of bed for another day of ‘not-too-bad’, what will have changed? Precious little! When you face another day of hassle, doubt, financial worries or battered self-confidence, what good will all that reading have done you? If anything, it will have made you even more restless and more dissatisfied than you were at the outset.

Reading, understanding and intellectually appreciating what it takes to change your life will change nothing in your life until you put what you’ve learned into daily practice. And here we encounter an obstacle that is simply too big for most normal people – they’re afraid to take what they perceive as some really risky leap of faith.

If you’ve managed to come across a self improvement book where you’re given step-by-step exercises on how to change your life (and they’re few and far between – most of them are ‘feel-good books’) then surely you’ve realized by now that a leap of faith is not necessary. All you’ve got to do is take easy steps each day that will awaken you from the self-induced hypnosis in which most normal people are only existing.

If you want to change your life, you have to change the way you’re living day to day at present. You start small – even by simply changing your morning routine – because small changes get your subconscious mind out of its comfort zone. And once out you will begin to understand that absolutely everything in your life can be done differently. When this realization dawns upon you, you will find yourself in a completely different place – where action that was otherwise unconscionable suddenly become the logical thing to do – and effortlessly doable.

In other words, it’s you who has to start doing the things that will change your life, to stop reading and start doing.