Discover Our Recommended Books
Presented below is a meticulously curated collection of self-improvement books designed to assist you in enhancing your personal development skills. Each book has been carefully selected for its unique insights and practical guidance, providing a variety of tools to improve different aspects of your life. Explore our recommendations and embark on the path toward a brighter future.
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A definitive guide to mindfulness, written by a medical doctor and mindfulness practitioner. This is a bespoke well-being program to make lasting change to your outlook.
Are you feeling burnt out and lacking motivation? Are you overthinking and overanalyzing? Do you feel you're stuck in a rut and not reaching your full potential? The doctor will see you now ...
Dr Afrosa, medical doctor, mindfulness practitioner and founder of the life-coaching program MindfulDoc, has written a revolutionary book which offers you a toolkit for life. The concept of mindfulness is very simple: it means paying attention to the present moment in a non-judgemental way. When we break free from our current way of thinking, we bring profound, positive changes to our lives.
Featuring five simple steps, Dr. Afrosa uses her knowledge of the human body alongside the ancient practice of mindfulness and shows you how to make long-lasting changes to your health and well-being. Unlike other well-being coaches she combines modern and traditional approaches to holistic healing at the same time. As Dr Afrosa says, 'medicine and meditation share from the same Latin root word', and she seamlessly blends both together to create a bespoke well-being program.
Mindful Healing not only reveals the science behind mindfulness, but explains that simply by focusing on the mind, the rest will follow. From boosting confidence to building resilience, as well as creating better clarity and focus, reducing stress, and improving sleep, these are medically based meditations, to transform your life inside and out.
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As organizations around the world are putting more focus on the mindset and wellbeing of staff, the need to develop Emotional Intelligence (EI) has never been greater.
Cutting through the hype and dispelling the myths about EI, this practical, easy-to-use resource provides clear guidance, powerful tools, and actionable steps for developing and implementing EI in the workplace for immediate results. Amy Jacobson, an experienced EI specialist, leadership trainer and coach, shares the tools, methodologies, concepts, and actions that increase EI in any situation.
This must-have guide:
- Offers a powerful five-part methodology to help you understand and implement Emotional Intelligence principles in both your personal and professional life
- Increases your Emotional Intelligence in the workplace to enable you to inspire and energize staff, support empathy and self-awareness, and drive high levels of performance
- Improves the way you handle high pressure environments, manage challenging situations, and interact with people with different communication styles
- Helps you solve difficult problems in the workplace such as loss of purpose and engagement, cultural issues, poor communication, and low productivity
- Provides concrete steps for eliminating negative behaviors and for owning the role you play, your impact on others, and the decisions and choices you make.
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This book is the culmination of over 30 years of practicing and experimenting with many spiritual and philosophical traditions to find a lasting inner presence and connectedness to creation. Meditation and spirit contact are the cornerstones to health and well-being, yet many myths and misguided beliefs have made these tools difficult for the average person to utilize. This book is going to appeal to you especially if you’ve tried meditation (including mindfulness and being mindful), and can’t seem to make it work for you. It will appeal to you if you’ve always known that your guardian angels seem to be present in your life but you haven’t known how you could communicate with them.
Lastly, you may have heard about mindfulness, but wasn’t sure where to look for a more spiritual way of being mindful and what that means to your everyday life. It will appeal to you if you want practical meditation principles combined with a spirit driven way of being.Once you learn to be in the superconscious state, you’re ready to connect with your spirit guides. The techniques that are most effective are those borrowed from neo-shamanism. These shamanic journey techniques will be fully explored, guiding you to the spirit realm to communicate directly with your spirit guides, guardian spirits or angels, and teaching spirits.
We’ll discuss the difference between different types of spirits that help you solve your life’s challenges like your soul’s purpose, improving your health and self care, knowing who in your life is truly supporting you and who is draining you, and whether you’re in the right situation to help with your spiritual path and well-being. You’ll learn how to better manage your personal energy, protect it from other people’s emotions and thought-forms, and how to have spirit helpers assist you. Along the way, you’ll also learn how your own beliefs, behaviors, and perceptions are formed and fixed in place. Then you’ll learn what you can do to shift them. This information comes from the latest scientific understanding of consciousness coupled with ancient traditions.
You’ll learn the importance of appreciation to your well-being and how you can increase its fullness in your life to help you feel more connected to the Earth. You’ll learn how to strengthen your relationships with others, and to all of nature."Every now and then the clouds part and a great book drops into your lap. If you have any interest in spiritual matters and want something real that's clear and helpful and easy to understand, this is a MUST READ. Invaluable!" Robert Bruce... author of Astral Dynamics
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For millennia, Stoicism has been the ancient philosophy that attracts those who seek greatness, from athletes to politicians and everyone in between. And no wonder: its embrace of self-mastery, virtue and indifference to that which we cannot control has much to offer those grappling with today's chaotic world. But who were the Stoics?
In this book, Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman offer a fresh approach to understanding Stoicism through the lives of the people who practiced it - from Cicero to Zeno, Cato to Seneca, Diogenes to Marcus Aurelius. Through short biographies of all the famous, and lesser-known, Stoics, this book will show what it means to live stoically, and reveal the lessons to be learned from their struggles and successes. The result is a treasure trove of insights for anyone in search of living a good life.
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This is a book about self-sabotage. Why we do it, when we do it, and how to stop doing it—for good. Coexisting but conflicting needs create self-sabotaging behaviors. This is why we resist efforts to change, often until they feel completely futile. But by extracting crucial insight from our most damaging habits, building emotional intelligence by better understanding our brains and bodies, releasing past experiences at a cellular level, and learning to act as our highest potential future selves, we can step out of our own way and into our potential. For centuries, the mountain has been used as a metaphor for the big challenges we face, especially ones that seem impossible to overcome. To scale our mountains, we actually have to do the deep internal work of excavating trauma, building resilience, and adjusting how we show up for the climb. In the end, it is not the mountain we master, but ourselves.
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Nobel Peace Prize Laureates His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu have survived more than fifty years of exile and the soul-crushing violence of oppression. Despite their hardships—or, as they would say, because of them—they are two of the most joyful people on the planet.
In April 2015, Archbishop Tutu traveled to the Dalai Lama's home in Dharamsala, India, to celebrate His Holiness's eightieth birthday and to create what they hoped would be a gift for others. They looked back on their long lives to answer a single burning question: How do we find joy in the face of life's inevitable suffering?
They traded intimate stories, teased each other continually, and shared their spiritual practices. By the end of a week filled with laughter and punctuated with tears, these two global heroes had stared into the abyss and despair of our time and revealed how to live a life brimming with joy.
This book offers us a rare opportunity to experience their astonishing and unprecedented week together, from the first embrace to the final good-bye.
We get to listen as they explore the Nature of True Joy and confront each of the Obstacles of Joy—from fear, stress, and anger to grief, illness, and death. They then offer us the Eight Pillars of Joy, which provide the foundation for lasting happiness. Throughout, they include stories, wisdom, and science. Finally, they share their daily Joy Practices that anchor their own emotional and spiritual lives.
The Archbishop has never claimed sainthood, and the Dalai Lama considers himself a simple monk. In this unique collaboration, they offer us the reflection of real lives filled with pain and turmoil in the midst of which they have been able to discover a level of peace, of courage, and of joy to which we can all aspire in our own lives.
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Happiness is not the belief that we don’t need to change; it is the realization that we can.
Our most commonly held formula for success is broken. Conventional wisdom holds that once we succeed, we’ll be happy; that once we get that great job, win that next promotion, lose those five pounds, happiness will follow. But the science reveals this formula to be backward: Happiness fuels success, not the other way around.
Research shows that happy employees are more productive, more creative, and better problem solvers than their unhappy peers. And positive people are significantly healthier and less stressed and enjoy deeper social interaction than the less positive people around them.
Drawing on original research—including one of the largest studies of happiness ever conducted—and work in boardrooms and classrooms across forty-two countries, Shawn Achor shows us how to rewire our brains for positivity and optimism to reap the happiness advantage in our lives, our careers, and even our health. His strategies include:
• The Tetris Effect: how to retrain our brains to spot patterns of possibility so we can see and seize opportunities all around us
• Social Investment: how to earn the dividends of a strong social support network
• The Ripple Effect: how to spread positive change within our teams, companies, and families
By turns fascinating, hopeful, and timely, The Happiness Advantage reveals how small shifts in our mind-set and habits can produce big gains at work, at home, and elsewhere.
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Most people are never prepared to deal with failure. Bestselling author John C. Maxwell says that if you are like him, you feared it, misunderstood it, and ran away from it. However, he has learned to make failure his friend, and he can teach you to do the same.
Maxwell takes a closer look at failure and reveals that the secret of moving beyond failure is to use it as a lesson and a stepping-stone.
In Failing Forward, Maxwell will show you:
- the key main reasons people fail,
- how to master fear instead of being mastered by it,
- and positive benefits can accompany negative experiences.
Filled with action suggestions and real-life stores, Failing Forward is a strategic guide that will help you move beyond mistakes to fulfill your potential and achieve success.
Discover how to confidently look the prospect of failure in the eye and move forward anyway. In life, the question is not?if?you will have problems, but how you are going to deal with them? Stop failing backward and start failing forward!
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A book that could change your life: When Dan Millman was a young man, he expected that hard work would eventually bring a life of comfort, wisdom, and happiness. Yet, despite his many successes, he was haunted by the feeling that something was missing. Awakened by dark dreams one night, Dan found himself at a gas station with an old man named Socrates, and his world was changed forever. Guided by this eccentric old warrior, and inspired by a young woman named Joy, Dan began a spiritual odyssey into realms of light and shadow, romance and mystery, toward a final confrontation that would deliver or destroy him.
Inspirational and spiritual saga: This autobiographical novel is one of the most beloved spiritual sagas of our time. For decades, friends and families around the world have shared the book that teaches the way of the peaceful warrior. Life as a peaceful warrior is a life of meditation, mindfulness, compassion, and acceptance.