Shiny happy people

DOES AN INFAMOUS SPOKEN-WORD ARTIST turned semi-famous New York Times best-selling author really need to make a New Year's resolution to get her life, career, marriage and family in order? Beth Lisick makes the humorous case in the side-splitting introduction to her new book Helping Me Help Myself: One Skeptic, Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the Brink of the Comfort Zone (William Morrow, $24.95). It's a 2006 morning after her (and husband Eli's) sixth annual New Year's Eve shindig, and Lisick seems to be suffering ass pain from having attempted, much earlier that morning, to perform splits for the first time since the '80s.Soreness stirs hilarious reflection, and Lisick decides to finally put aside her skepticism, pledging to grapple with the teachings of some of the most popular and most mainstream self-help salesmen around today: Richard Simmons, Suze Orman and John Gray -- just to name a few.


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