What will you gain from Good With Me that you haven’t already found in all the rest?
Why bother reading another self-help book or attending another self-help seminar when you always end up in the same old familiar place after you leave the pages of the book or weekend retreat? Why bother when nothing changes — at least not long term?
The reason to bother reading this book is because it is different from all of the rest. It defies many concepts of traditional psychology. It might be compared to learning a foreign language. You may think you are walking around freely in life, but many of you will discover that you are actually trapped in a box. This box has a name: other dependency. The confusing thing is that most of us call this box “self-esteem,” and even “high self-esteem.” But it is a box just the same.
Every single person who wants to feel good by achieving real happiness, no matter what, can do so! But let’s be honest. Most of us were not taught how to make ourselves feel good. We weren’t taught how to make ourselves feel happy either. In fact, we have been taught just the opposite. We were taught by our parents, grandparents, older siblings, aunts and uncles, school teachers, religious leaders, advertising media, social media, and just about anyone else we can think of to expect that someone or something outside of ourselves would make us happy. We were taught to be other-dependent!
That’s why most of us depend upon someone or something outside of ourselves to make us feel good. And you know as well as I know this kind of other-dependency doesn’t work! In fact, having other-dependent esteem is the root of unhappiness, discontent, addiction, anger, rage, violence, and even criminal behavior and suicide. It’s a box we must free ourselves from if we truly want to be happy.
