<p><img decoding="async" class="alignleft" title="Noah St. John" src="http://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/noah-st-john.jpg" alt="Noah St. John" />Americans spend over 11 Billion dollars a year on &#8220;self-help&#8221; products. But I call most of it &#8220;SHELF-Help&#8221; &#8212; because most of it goes on the shelf, along with all the other stuff you&#8217;ve bought!</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re like most of my coaching clients, you&#8217;ve spent lots of money on &#8220;shelf-help&#8221;. But the REAL question is: Why, if we&#8217;re spending all this money, are so few of us actually living the life of our dreams?</p>
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<p>To answer this question, we must first ask a deeper question: What Really Causes Human Behavior? Here&#8217;s the simplest answer I&#8217;ve found to that question: <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2012/05/why-self-help-is-shelf-help-by-noah-st-john/" title="Permanent Link: Why Self-Help is SHELF-Help By Noah St. John" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":1094,"date":"2012-05-25T07:41:58","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T12:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=1094"},"modified":"2018-04-27T23:04:32","modified_gmt":"2018-04-28T04:04:32","slug":"why-self-help-is-shelf-help-by-noah-st-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2012\/05\/why-self-help-is-shelf-help-by-noah-st-john\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Self-Help is SHELF-Help By Noah St. John"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Noah St. John\" src=\"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/noah-st-john.jpg\" alt=\"Noah St. John\" \/>Americans spend over 11 Billion dollars a year on &#8220;self-help&#8221; products. But I call most of it &#8220;SHELF-Help&#8221; &#8212; because most of it goes on the shelf, along with all the other stuff you&#8217;ve bought!<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re like most of my coaching clients, you&#8217;ve spent lots of money on &#8220;shelf-help&#8221;. But the REAL question is: Why, if we&#8217;re spending all this money, are so few of us actually living the life of our dreams?<\/p>\n<p>Your browser may not support display of this image.<\/p>\n<p>To answer this question, we must first ask a deeper question: What Really Causes Human Behavior? Here&#8217;s the simplest answer I&#8217;ve found to that question: <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2012\/05\/why-self-help-is-shelf-help-by-noah-st-john\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Why Self-Help is SHELF-Help By Noah St. John\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}