Hi there! My name is Leslie and I really want to help you get out of whatever rut you’re in and start getting what you really want from life. Sounds corny but I mean it.

I started this blog as an adjunct to the main site www.ireallyrecommend.com. And the reason I started that site is because I found myself recommending the same books, CDs, ebooks, DVDs, courses, etc. over and over again to people.

So I thought it would just be easier to send them to a website and save me the time and effort of trying to convince them that the book (or whatever) would be beneficial! Now I just refer people to the site. They can read my review, click across to Amazon and read other reviews, and decide for themselves whether it’s a match for where they’re at in their own journey.

And so the blog kind of naturally evolved out of my putting up that little site (Note: at the time of writing this “About” post, the site has just 7 recommendations but I hope it grows as I find more and more things that have helped me in some way and which I can share with others).

And in the time it took me to learn how to do all the webpage-building-stuff over at the main site (coz I’m not a techie by any stretch of the imagination! ), I realised I’d already had a number of discussions with colleagues and friends about things that are directly related to the themes of the site: success, self-betterment, personal growth, motivation, time-management, effectiveness, “emotion-garden weeding”, and so on.

Then I realised that I actually have these sorts of discussions all the time! I guess, though, that because I was building this site, it was probably just more present in my mind so I thought “Y’know, I should attach a blog to the site and post my thoughts on various topics when they occur and then see where the discussion leads”.

So that’s what I’ve done.

About me? Well, I’m just a regular guy in many, many ways. I’m not rich. I’m not famous. I’m not even particularly important in the sense that I don’t have some high-powered job.

And I’m not engaging in coy modesty or self-flagellation there either. It’s just who I am. I’m a regular guy with a regular job and a fairly regular life.

So this begs the question “Why should you listen to a word I say?”

And that’s an extremely valid question!

And the only way I can answer that without giving you my whole life-story—although I’m willing to bet that over the life of this blog, a good chunk of that story will come out because it’s so directly related to the subject matter—I can safely say that I am definitely in a pretty darned good position in life considering my upbringing.

One small, and hopefully illustrative example: I am the only person I can think of in my entire extended family (and it’s a big one by the way!) who has ever been to university.

I’m not going to sit here and list what I consider to be my achievements. That’s not my style. But the question as to why you should bother to spend time coming back to my blog still stands. And the only real response that I can give to that is a general litmus test for anything at all in life: observe the results.

Read the posts. If you think I’m talking shit, then we’re probably not going to develop any kind of rapport. Unless perhaps you try the suggestions and find that they work! If they do (and how could I possibly try to guarantee that?), then you might start to think differently. And that’s the first step in the right direction to getting something different in life.

If you’re not satisfied with various things in your life, try my recommendations. If they work, then you’ll be more inclined to come back and read my thoughts and the comments of others. If they don’t, then you should invest your time more wisely somewhere else.

Join the discussion. Be prepared to be challenged. Not necessarily by me, but by anyone else who posts. Good God! The number of times I have been patently wrong about things in life and only discovered it through the power of discussion! A recent example springs to mind—Thank you, Jonathan, for telling me very subtly to pull my head in.

Simply put: Being better has been a lifelong pursuit for me. And I don’t mean being better than everyone else. I mean making my life better in some way. And I’ve found that the most rewarding and certainly long-lasting way to do that is to better myself. A better job, for example, might provide more money and a bigger house or a nicer car or whatever, but the real cost may not be worth it.

On the other hand, something I heard about a month ago seems pertinent here. I watched a presentation in which self-betterment legend Jim Rohn was quoted as saying

“Work on your business and you’ll make money.

Work on yourself and you’ll make a fortune.”

Sound advice whether you’re seeking monetary fortune or otherwise.

And that’s ostensibly what a significant part of me is all about and what this particular site is all about. I hope you’ll get on board!

Warmest regards and… To your success!

Leslie

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Thanks for visiting & I hope you find some good stuff here! Leslie