How many self development, self help or motivational books have you read, listened to or reviewed summaries of in the past year?

How many worked?

How many books from the same celebrated author have you read to "fix" any personal or professional issues you've struggled with?

Who has the time to know what books or ideas actually work and are not just reframes of the author's old ideas repackaged for current consumption or even more upsetting, simply commonsense wisdom with effective marketing programs behind them?

Here is what we face:

>Thousands of personal and professional development books are released every year.

>What are we as individuals doing today that we learned from all these thousands of books that is making our lives better?

>How do we measure what we were supposed to learn from all these gurus and thought-leaders?

Real change will always begin and end with us as individuals, but we have the right to real, effective tools to make that change not only occur, but even more importantly, to last.

The good news is that there are books and ideas that work. Authors who have innovative ways of looking at problems and not only providing posssible solutions, but laying out specific steps to be taken to alleviate and in some cases totally fix the issues we are working on in our lives.

Bookleverage promises to build a community that is committed to not only providing insightful reviews of both personal and professional self development books, but also providing tools to make the path to real and lasting change less bumpy and more lasting. Good ideas do exist and change and improvement can be accomplished. One book at a time.