Books can be a wonderful resource when trying to find ideas or to become motivated to improve. There are literally hundreds of self-improvement books available about anything and everything from improving your relationships to improving your self-image, but how do you know what is right for you?

Marketers are ingenious when it comes to self-improvement books, many have intriguing titles and promise great results, but you need to look a bit farther than the outside cover to find out if the book will be useful. Open up the book and look inside, skim over the chapter titles read a few paragraphs and find out if this is what you are really looking for. Figure out if the things in the book are things you already know of if they will really be useful. If you skim a few pages and don