Self Help

OCTOBER 2014

Emmett Lee Dickinson put the "EL" in "sELf" and "hELp."

Check back throughout the month to learn all about the Emmett Lee Dickinson
Self Help Improvement Training Center

October 1

The self-help revolution began with the publication of Emmett Lee Dickinson's classic book I'm Somebody! Who Are You?

Dickinson advertised -- you know -- because, he said, "how dreary to be a nobody." In his text, he gave advice on how to become comfortable with being "public." Dickinson promised that with his 23 step program, anyone could be "like a Frog -- to an admiring Bog!"

October 2

Whenever he's asked how he got into the self-help industry, Stephen Covey responds, "I found a career the other day" -- referring to his favorite self-help book of all time, Emmett Lee Dickinson's I Found A World The Other Day.

"A mentally healthy man might not notice it," said Covey in the book's introduction, "Yet to my frugal eye it is of more esteem than ducats." Now Covey has his own row of stars around his celebrity bound, including Ben Affleck, Willard Scott, Kathy Griffin, and Howie Mandel.

So the next time you're in a bookstore and in need of an uplifting self-help book, say, "I Found A World the Other Day: Oh, find it, sir, for me!"

October 3

How frugal is the Chariot that bears your career -- and that wheeled Chariot is a full rolodex! There is no boost to your career like a page from a rolodex, even if it takes you on a sales call lands away. Only the poorest workers are without this frigate!

October 4

Some people think that Dale Carnegie coined the phrase "win friends and influence people," but it was actually first said by Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily Dickinson's third cousin, twice removed --at her request) in his seminal work Hope Is The Thing With Friendship.

“Whether you’re in the chilliest land or on the strangest sea,” said Dickinson “’Hope’ is the thing with friendship. It will help you win friends and influence people.”

“Friendship,” he said, “perches in the soul. It is sweetest in the Gale, and has kept so many warm.”

Pictured at the far left: Emmett Lee Dickinson's seminal self-help book Hope Is The Thing With Friendship.

Pictured at the left: Dale Carnegie credited Dickinson's book with leading him to a career in self-help publishing, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking, and interpersonal skills.

October 5

Pictured at the right: The Emmett Lee Dickinson Self-Help Improvement Training Center is located on Dickinson Boulevard in historic Washerst, PA, just down the street from the Emmett Lee Dickinson Museum (above the coin-op Laundromat).

Pictured at the far right: Dr. Otto Graff, founder of the Dickinson Self-Help Improvement Training Center. Graff attended the Emmett Lee Dickinson School for Boys in Poughkeepsie, NY, and then moved to Washerst, PA, later in life to open the center.

Graduates of the Dickinson Self-Help Improvement Training Center include Kathy Griffin, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Buffett, Jimmy Hoffa, Jimmy the Greek, Jimmy Walker, Jimmy Durante, Oprah Winfrey, and Kato Kaelin (one semester only).

October 6

Emmett Lee Dickinson's seminal work Because I Could Not Stop to Live set forth 5 steps to realizing one's goals and resolutions, and it was based on 30 years of scientific research. "Follow these steps religiously," said Dickinson, "and the carriage will carry but just yourself -- and immortality!"

'Tis a century since Dickinson published this tome -- yet feels shorter than the day when he first surmised his five step program. If you have never read this self-help classic, be sure to pick up a copy soon -- or Death might just stop for your career!

October 7

Charlie Sheen, who attended the Emmett Lee Dickinson School for Boys in Santa Monica, California, says that if were not for the self-help books by Emmett Lee Dickinson, he would have likely experienced some sort of meltdown at some point in his career.

As a result of his devotion to the "winning" philosophy of Dickinson's, Sheen agreed to write an introduction to Dickinson's classic self-help book Success is Counted Sweetest.

Sheen agrees with Dickinson’s approach that states that one needs “sorest need” to comprehend the meaning of success. Because of Dickinson’s book, “I can tell the definition so clear of victory,” said Sheen. “Not like those other trolls,” he added. “To them, the distant strains of triumph burst agonized and clear.”

October 8

Is your boss a great pain? Do you sit around at meetings as if in a tomb? Does your stiff heart question what you do it all for? On the job, do your feet mechanical go round – a wooden way?

If you answered “yes” to any of those questions, then you need to read Emmett Lee Dickinson’s After Great Accomplishment A Formal Satisfaction Comes.

“If your contentment is like a stone,” said Dickinson, “then this is the hour of lead” – and you need to let go, and follow the 39-step program to get yourself out of your stupor!

October 9

If you have a fear of launching because you’ve never sailed the bay, then pick up a copy of Emmett Lee Dickinson’s Could Live, Did Live. Dickinson outlines steps to go from a familiar scene to an untraversed spot and allows you to contemplate the journey with an unpuzzled heart – and when all is said and odne, you can smile upon the whole.

October 10

In one of Emily Dickinson's poems, she posed the question, " Could – I do more – for Thee." More than likely, she was inspired to write her poem by the title of her third cousin Emmett Lee Dickinson's classic self-help book Could I Do More For Me?

In his best-selling book, Dickinson offered a bouquet of ideas for individuals to do more for themselves when their lives have them busy as bees.

October 11

“If you want career sustainability,” said Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily Dickinson’s third cousin, twice removed – at her request), “you need transparent authenticity – in your actions and your words.” That is the premise of Dickinson’s classic self-help book I Said A Buzzword – Then I Died.

“It’s a game changer,” he said “if all you bring to the table is corporate mumbo-jumbo”

How can you tell if you need a paradigm shift in your vocabulary? Watch for these signs in your stakeholders after a business-to-business exchange:

    * The stillness in the room is like the stillness in the air between the heaves of storm.
    * Breaths are gathered firm.
    * Subordinates have signed away what portion of them be assignable.
    * Communication fails – and customers cannot see to see.

Learn to avoid blue, uncertain, stumbling buzzwords. Buy Dickinson’s I Said A Buzzword – Then I Died. It’s sure to be a value-added strategy and a win-win solution for you and your stakeholders.

October 12

Pictured at the left: The Dickinson Self-Help Book Publishing Company in Washerst.

The DSHBPC started the self-help publishing industry with the publication of Emmett Lee Dickinson's first self-help book I'm Somebody. Who Are You?

Pictured at the right: The Emmett Lee Dickinson Self-Help Library on Dickinson Boulevard in Washerst.

With a collection of well over 600,000 titles, the ELD Self-Help Library is the largest and busiest self-help library in the United States.

October 13

“There’s no time like the present,” said Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily Dickinson’s third cousin, twice removed – at her request). “There is no different time," he added, "except for infiniteness.”

So, exhale the years and remove all the dates to this one experienced here, and without debate or pause, read Emmett Lee Dickinson’s classic self-help book Forever Is Composed Of Nows.

If you fail to read and heed Dickinson’s advice, months will dissolve in further months, and your year will be no different from any other Anno Domini. Follow his advice, though, and you’ll celebrate the day you picked up this book!

October 14

Does your commute to work take you to nothing more than a shallow rim? Do the torrents of the office all but inundate? Are you so overworked and overwhelmed that you seem to have nothing more – but work?

If you answered "yes" to any of the questions above, then pick up How Much The Present Moment Means, Emmett Lee Dickinson’s sequel to his classic self-help book Forever Is Composed of Nows. If you avoid the 67 fatal mistakes that Dickinson outlines, the present moment will mean so much more!

October 15

Pictured at the right: Emmett Lee Dickinson's classic self-help book Each Life Converges To Some Center

Pictured at the far right: The UK version, Each Life Converges To Some Centre

In every human nature exists goals, but these goals might be marred if you don’t read Emmett Lee Dickinson’s self-help book Each Life Converges To Some Center.

Without Dickinson’s 87 step approach for stress management and emotional balance, your goals will be as a brittle heaven and as distant as a rainbow’s raiment. With Dickinson’s approach, your life’s low ventures will persevere toward the sky!

October 16

If you can stop your New Year’s resolution from breaking, then your resolve will not have been in vain! And you can stop the pain and aching associated with halfhearted will-power by picking up Emmett Lee Dickinson’s self-help tome If I Can Stop One Resolution From Breaking.

October 17

When opportunity knocks, do you find that the door is always locked?

If the only thing you are positive about is that things will turn out negative, then you need to pick up Emmett Lee Dickinson’s timeless self-help book Not Knowing When The Dawn Will Come.

Dickinson’s 93-step program for “happiness for people who can’t stand positive thinking” will help you open every door! And who knows, maybe at dawn “opportunity” will be waiting for you – like a bird, or like billows on a shore.

October 18

Emily Dickinson’s poem “Exultation is the going” is undoubtedly based on Emmett Lee Dickinson’s self-help book Exultation Is The Doing.

In his book, Dickinson likens one’s “doing” to the divine intoxication a sailor experiences on his first league out to sea – an exultation unknown to someone bred among the mountains (i.e., a non-doer). So if you want to launch your career past houses, past the headlands, and into the sea of success, pick up a copy of Exultation Is The Doing today!

October 19

Pictured at the left: The Emmett Lee Dickinson Self-Help Center for Toddlers and Youth in historic Washerst. Dickinson believed that it was never too early for one to engage in self-help, so the center was founded in 1936 by Dickinson self-help devotee Lulu Deadwaite Riddler.

Pictured at the right: Lulu Deadwaite Riddler, founder of the Emmett Lee Dickinson Self-Help Center for Toddlers and Youth. The center includes state-of-the-art baby-proofing and child safety safeguards. The center is endorsed by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

October 20

Emily Dickinson’s poem “Each that we lose takes part of us” is most certainly based on Emmett Lee Dickinson’s “how-to” book Each That We Gain. Abide by Dickinson’s advice in this classic self-help book, and your career will rise like the moon on some turbid night as it is summoned by the tides!

October 21

Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily Dickinson's third cousin, twice removed -- at her request) once said, "If you come to a fork in the road, take it" (a saying often attributed to Yogi Berra, who attended the Emmett Lee School Dickinson School for Boys in St. Louis, MO., and who was a great aficionado of Dickinson's). Dickinson later expounded upon his statement in his timeless self-help book Our Journey Had Advanced.

In Our Journey Had Advanced, Dickinson gives advice for when your feet almost come to that odd fork in the being's road. Even if you have reluctant feet at first, if you follow Dickinson's guidance, your pace will take on sudden awe -- and retreat won't even be an option. You will emerge from the Forest of the Dead!

October 22

Is yesterday a mystery? We shrewdly speculate that that is so – but it was your yesterday that brought you to today! And if you pick up Emmett Lee Dickinson’s best-selling self-help book Yesterday Is History, then all your yesterdays will be filled with poetry and philosophy so that as each yesterday and today flutter both away, your days will lead you to success!

October 23

Are you dying in Drama? Are you jarring others while others are jarring you?

Don’t be cautious! Before you cool to a shaft of granite, dare to dream – and be prudent by picking up a copy of Emmett Lee Dickinson’s timeless self-help book We Dream.

October 24

Emily Dickinson based her poem "We grow accustomed to the Dark" on Emmett Lee Dickinson's best-selling self-help book Grow Accustomed To The Light.

In his book, Dickinson outlined a 93-step program for those whose uncertain step toward newness fits their vision for the Dark. "The bravest," said Dickinson, "grope a little and sometimes hit a tree directly in the forehead." However, he added, "as they learn to hold a lamp and see the light, they adjust; their lives step almost straight."

For newness of the day and a vision of the Light, be sure to pick up Dickinson's Grow Accustomed To The Light.

October 25

Emmett Lee Dickinson understood the need for time off from work, so in his self-help book Two Lengths Has Every Day, he outlined how to separate professional time from personal time.

“Fundamentally,” said Dickinson, “one needs to match ones velocity with pause.” In other words, there are times when no new territory should be staked so that you might remain as thou art.

October 26

Ernest Hemingway once said, “All modern American self-help books come from one publication by Emmett Lee Dickinson called I'm Somebody! Who Are You? American self-help writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.” (See the post dated October 1st for information related to Dickinson's I'm Somebody! Who Are You?)

Hemingway was right. Every American self-help author has, in some way, been influenced by Emmett Lee Dickinson. One very well-known example is John Gray's Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus. His research and his book were based directly on Emmett Lee Dickinson's Men Are From Washerst, Women Are From Amherst (pictured at the right).

October 27

In the mid-1800s, Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily Dickinson's third cousin, twice removed -- at her request) wrote a two-volume set of self-help books. The first is called Night Is Almost Done, and its companion piece is entitled Cause To Be Awake.

Night Is Almost Done includes one of Dickinson's most famous quotes, "It's always darkest before the dawn." This timeless self-help book also includes Dickinson's 68-step program on how to prepare for the day when sunrise grows so near. For example, he gave advice on how to smooth the hair and how to get the dimples ready.

In Cause To Be Awake, Dickinson outlined 78 easy steps to awaken your best. Follow this program, and you will never want to oversleep again! Instead, you will look at the sunrise with wishfulness and ample peace.

October 28

In his timeless self-help book To Live May Be A Bliss, Emmett Lee Dickinson said, "the heart you wear can widen like a little bank, and life may be a bliss -- to those who dare to try." Dickinson's 7 core aspects of life promise no bankruptcy, no doom, no numb alarm, and no goblin on the bloom.

If all your life has been mistake, pick up a copy of To Live May Be A Bliss. Pondered long, Dickinson's vision becomes plausible, and your dreams will become bountiful.

October 29

Is your career dead? If so, you can triumph on the job if you have the faith to overcome. Is your life a lie? Then you can triumph by advancing truth. Is you will power weak? You can triumph when temptation's bribe is slowly handed back.

Read Emmett Lee Dickinson's Triumph May Be Of Several Kinds to discover Dickinson's 86-step program for triumphing over any and all adversity!

October 30

The Emmett Lee Dickinson Self-Help Improvement Training Center is the world's top-rated Internet self-help training center. Located in Omaha, Nebraska. the center serves hundreds of thousands of unfulfilled and discontented customers every week!

Pictured at the right: The Dickinson Online Self-Help Improvement Training Center.

Pictured below: The state-of-the-art equipment at the Dickinson Online Self-Help Improvement Training Center. There, trained and certified Licensed Integration Accountability Representatives (LIARs) counsel thousands of inadequate and/or incompetent individuals daily.

October 31

Pictured at the left: Whether one takes a self-help course at the Emmett Lee Dickinson Self-Help Improvement Training Center or one completes a seminar through the online training center, all participants receive a Certificate for Regular Attendance. This beautiful credential is suitable for framing, and of course, the accomplishment of completing a Dickinson self-help program should be included proudly and prominently on the individual's resume.