Motivational Books

February 3rd, 2010 by Dr. Pauline

Motivational Books can become the best source of encouragement for you. In this life sometimes we walk on the mountain tops. The mountain top is that place where we can’t seem to do anything wrong. We have the “magic touch,” so to speak, everything we touch turns to gold. The wife/husband is easy to please, the children are house-broken and anxious to obey (joke), co-workers are cooperative and at the water cooler everything is cool. There is not a cloud on the horizon the world is our oyster. True we have mountains, but then there are valleys. Finding ourselves in the valley of life makes us learn quickly what Murphy’s Law is really saying when it declares: Anything that can go wrong will.

Motivational Books can prove to be just the “shot-in-the-arm” that will get us through dark valley days. Those valley days can come so suddenly that the story of Job (a book in the bible) becomes more than a “nice Sunday story” for weak people. You know you are not weak, but the Job syndrome has struck at your house; the spouse is restless and threatening to defect; the children have discovered new “friends” who have shown them that there is more to school than studying, turning in assignments, and obeying adults; the job you thought you would retire from packed up overnight and moved to a place that you can’t pronounce, or spell. These are things you can hardly look to your friends for comfort and wisdom, when you tried that you found that they had problems too.

Out of all the motivational books available the bible tops the list as to its success in guiding people through the rough times and bringing them out more than conquerors. In my young adult days I found a book, along with the bible, that encouraged me when I found myself on the brink of giving up. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale’s book, The Power of Positive Thinking showed me how to change my way of thinking. From the bible I found the scripture that declared, as a man/woman thinks so is he/she.

There are motivational books for just about every situation we can find ourselves in. Men and women from many different walks of life have seen fit to share the wisdom they gleaned from changing their way of thinking. They seemed to have gotten a hold of the bible principle that states, “You can have whatever you say.” That principle seems so easy it can be unbelievable. I don’t claim to know the dynamics of the principle. I do know that if we speak positive words somehow they come to pass, in like manner so do our negative words. Looking back I can think of some negative times in my life. I remember saying, if I didn’t say it I thought it, “Around the middle of the month I am always out of money.” Well, let me assure you this is exactly what happened, the months had more days than I had money. I should admit one other factor; I did not tithe at that time either.

Motivational Books offer not only encouragement for one to get up and try again. Probably most importantly these motivational books are testimonials of real people. Some have experienced anguish, shame and failure such as ending up living on the streets living out of soup kitchens. Thank God for the soup kitchens. Motivational books expose us to an entirely different way of looking at life. We are made aware that there is such a thing known as ‘people skills’ without such we can ruin a potential business deal by our lack of knowing how to finesse. I suppose at this juncture the axiom; “Loose lips sink ships” could be employed here. Finally, God has the last words and they are, “But I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the Day of Judgment. For by thy words thou shall be justified, and by thy words thou shall be condemned. Matthew 12: 36-37.