The Self Help/Sell Help philosophy

Good Morning and Evening. Good day or night. God Bless you and your life. My niece is carrying around the freakiest looking bald headed pen tattooed doll you’ll ever glance upon in your life and loving on it like a beauty pageant winner. Kids, you got to love them. May she always have that good hearted openness, most people lose it at like, what, six years old?


If you take away anything positive from reading any of this, then I thank God. I’m not writing this to waste anyone’s time. I want this discussion to be free, not cheap. And that’s another thing, I’m not here to sell an agenda. Whatever you take from this whole experience I give, freely. Wisdom, if I have any, should be a gift, not a product. Nothing against people who sell their knowledge, people got to eat and feed families, but I’m no Doctor Phil. Putting a price and a time limit on help of any kind makes puts a price and time limit on it’s effectiveness to me. And maybe it’s just me, but not only do I believe in a God who gives wisdom and knowledge freely, I also believe the wiser we all are, the better off we all are. I want to know as much as possible, so by all means, tell me something enriching. Teach me something to help me that I don’t already know. Something that is going to add to my life, I only write stuff I feel is not only important, but positive.

Maybe I’m saying because it DOES sound like self help material when I read it back to myself. It has even been pointed out to me, today actually as I sat down to write this knowing what I was going to write, by phone by someone who I doubt even reads these. I’m apparently in self help mode. Here are significant differences at least to me though, that I feel need pointed out. I for one don’t think I helped myself, but that’s a whole other blog post. I’m not sure anyone can really help themselves, we just do what we can. And self help books are written by someone else to help THEM make money, at your expense or otherwise. You’re not even the self they really have it in mind to help, especially as help shouldn’t cost money. That’s not help, that’s services rendered, and the whole dynamic changes.

This project isn’t about the answers, it’s about the questions. Anything I write here, I asked about. Any songs I wrote on the project were either genuine questions or genuine reflections. I really feel when or how I asked these questions saved my life, so I put my answers on hold (Lifelines) and decided the questions mattered more because people die asking them. And buy asking them. And I want to see if anyone finds the questions as important as I think they are.

Or maybe I just never heard an answer or full explanation that I liked from watching Oprah, leave alone Doctor Phil. Maybe it’s both.