All of these recommendations of self improvement books are from my own personal library and have been great resources for me. My library contains hundreds of books but this is a list of some of my must-have favorites.
In our busy lives it can be challenging to find the time to read self improvement books, so I’ve found that when I multi-task and buy books on CD I can listen while I’m driving or download to my MP3 player and listen any time I’m in a waiting room, on an airplane or doing exercise.
Whether you read your self improvement books or listen to them, make time for yourself to expand your knowledge and grow as a person. What could be more important than that?
My Personal Favorite Life-Changing Books:Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill: If you read this brilliant book and truly grasp the easy concepts, you have everything you need to be successful in life. It has been said that this is the only "self-help" book you will ever need. Ask and it is Given by Esther and Jerry Hicks: Ask and it is Given is a Must-Have Life Changing Book. Keep this book close at hand. This book provides amazing tools on how to be happy in your day to day life. If you only read one book about the law of attraction, make it this one.
The Secret by Rhonda Byrne: Of course this is the book that started the recent fascination with the law of attraction. I will always love this book because it gave me my first taste of the law of attraction and was the catalyst for me to further my understanding of this powerful law. This is a fantastic place for anyone to begin learning about the law of attraction.
When Everything Changes, Change Everything: In a Time of Turmoil, a Pathway to Peace by Neale Donald Walsch: Nothing could be more important than learning how to cope with change. Midlife brings us all kinds of physical and emotional changes and this book is one of the best I've read in teaching us tools to make ANY change a positive experience - even those devastating life changes like divorce, job loss or illness.
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (Oprah's Book Club, Selection) by Eckhart Tolle: This book received lots of attention when it was featured on Oprah. I had so many Aha moments reading this book and listening to the audio CD. This is one of the books I turn to over and over again.
Other Highly Recommended Self Improvement Books:
Choosing Easy World: A Guide to Opting Out of Struggle and Strife and Living in the Amazing Realm Where Everything is Easy:
Once you get over the false belief that anything worth having can only be achieved through struggle or hard work, life becomes easy and joyful. This wonderful book teaches us that life is NOT supposed to be hard and provides some easy things we can do right now to see immediate results.
Excuses Begone!: How to Change Lifelong, Self-Defeating Thinking Habits by Dr. Wayne Dyer: This is a brilliant book about how to change the limiting beliefs that prevent you from having the success, health, wealth and happiness you are meant to have.
Money, and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Wealth, Health, and Happiness by Esther and Jerry Hicks: Financial abundance all stems from having positive beliefs about money. The advice in this book literally changes lives.
A Happy Pocket Full of Money by David Gikandi: This amazing book puts science and spirit together for us in an easy to understand way. This book over delivers and helps readers understand how to use the law of attraction to create deliberate wealth. The bonuses are priceless as well.
Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out by Marci Shimoff: Marci Shimoff has spent a lifetime researching happiness and interviews 100 “deeply happy” people in this book. How do happy people act and live differently than unhappy people? This book shows you how to raise your happiness set point. I had Lots of Aha moments reading this fascinating book.
You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay: What a wonderful book by a wonderful woman. Louise Hay is in her 80s and expects that it will be her best decade. What an inspirational role model to women of all ages. This book shows us how we are responsible for our own health and dis-ease and that self love is the only path to vibrant health.
How Not to Act Old: 185 Ways to Pass for Phat, Sick, Hot, Dope, Awesome, or at Least Not Totally Lame by Pamela Redmond Satran: This is an extremely eye opening and funny look at how NOT to be perceived as old. I laughed out loud until I recognized some of my own habits in her book. Do you type with your thumbs?
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. ~Francis Bacon
