The Me Myth Stop analysing, start living

The Me Myth

Stop analysing, start living.

What do you mean it's not all about me?

Me, me, me- it's the battle cry of the modern world. We're obsessed with what we have, what we don't have, being happy, being unhappy. Most of us are desperately seeking a sense of peace, happiness and satisfaction in the midst of a crazy world. We're looking inwards for answers but are we finding them?

'Not really,' says bestselling author Andrew Griffiths. 'Every day we are bombarded with messages reinforcing this ideas that the world revolved around 'me'. Messages telling us what to ear, what to wear, the friends we should have, where we should live, how we should live, who we should be!'

According to Andrew, this leads to a sense of over-analysis paralysis, a condition where we get overwhelmed with information, options and demands that make us self-obsessed.

'We become confused, we lose direction and we struggle to achieve clarity in our lives. The worst part is that this over analysis paralysis causes us to lose control of our lives.'

No one knows this better than Andrew. Growing up in a violent and neglectful home he never knew his parents and didn't even know when or where he was born. He was forced to sleep outside like a dog and was roaming the streets at night at the age of 8. As a teenager he fell into the world of crime and drugs which could have easily seen his life spiral out of control. And it almost did. Refusing to be a victim, Andrew pulled himself out of his terrible past and refused to let it define him, forging ahead to create a number of successful businesses and become a bestselling author.

'There comes a time for each and every one of us when we need to step up and take responsibility for out lives,' says Andrew, now based in Townsville.'

'A powerful place to start is by accepting that the world doesn't revolve around you. The less time you spend think about yourself the more time you spend getting on with living and the greater your life will become.'

In Andrew's unique and down-to-earth style his latest book The Me Myth, offers 36 ways in which you can break out of the Me Myth and get on with living including: