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Business, Success & Wealth Creation
Good to Great
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by Jim Collins
Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't
The coauthor of the bestselling "Built to Last" now presents a blueprint for transforming good companies into great ones. Charts & graphs throughout
The Challenge
"Built to Last," the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning.
But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness?
The Study
For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? And if so, what are the universal distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great?
The Standards
Using tough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results for at least fifteen years. How great? After the leap, the good-to-great companies generated cumulative stock returns that beat the general stock market by an average of seven times in fifteen years, better than twice the results delivered by a composite index of the world's greatest companies, including Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, and Merck.
The Comparisons
The research team contrasted the good-to-great companies with a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to make the leap from good to great. What was different? Why did one set of companies become truly great performers while the other set remained only good?
Over five years, the team analyzed the histories of all twenty-eight companies in the study. After sifting through mountains of data and thousands of pages of interviews, Collins and hiscrew discovered the key determinants of greatness -- why some companies make the leap and others don't.
The Findings
The findings of the Good to Great study will surprise many readers and shed light on virtually every area of management strategy and practice. The findings include:
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“ Some of the key concepts discerned in the study, ” comments Jim Collins, "fly in the face of our modern business culture and will, quite frankly, upset some people.” Perhaps, but who can afford to ignore these findings? |
Harmonic Wealth
5 stars!
by James Ray
The Secret of Attracting the Life You Want
Identifying the five 'pillars' of our everyday existence - financial, relational, intellectual, physical and spiritual - James Arthur Ray shows us how to define what we want in life and then presents the strategy for becoming absolutely unstoppable in achieving those things. Going far beyond the explication of the Law of Attraction (thoughts, emotions, beliefs and actions are said to attract corresponding positive and negative experiences) addressed in bestselling THE SECRET, James Ray breaks down the seven super laws of the universe (of which the law of attraction is a subset) and shows how to apply them to achieve harmonic wealth. Turning theory into practice, James Ray distils extensive study of ancient wisdom traditions and cutting-edge findings in scientific fields into proven action steps that are practical and easy to implement. HARMONIC WEALTH shows us how to create and maintain all of our five pillars dynamically, leading to a continual cycle of abundance and providing the route to achieving success and happiness in all aspects of our lives.
Having it All
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by John Assaraf
Achieving Your Life's Goals and Dreams
How to Win Friends and Influence People
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by Dale Carnegie
You can go after the job you want...and get it! You can take the job you have...and improve it! You can take any situation you're in...and make it work for "you!"
For over 50 years the rock-solid, time-tested advice in this book has carried thousands of now famous people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives.
Now this phenomenal book has been revised and updated to help readers achieve their maximum potential in the complex and competitive 90s!
Learn:
- The six ways to make people like you
- The twelve ways to win people to your way of thinking
- The nine ways to change people without arousing resentment
- and much, much more!
Make Money Be Happy
3 stars!
by Carmel Mcconnell
How to Make All the Money You Want, Doing What You Want to Do
Do you think you have enough money? Do you feel really fulfilled by your career? Very few people can answer yes to both questions. Some of us can say yes to one or the other. But the majority of people would actually say no to both. So what is it that is stopping you achieving your full financial & career potential? Is it possible that taking steps to be fulfilled can actually be the same steps you need to take to get control of your financial situation (and vice versa). It runs completely contrary to what we've been led to believe - you can have lots of cash or a fulfilling job, but you can't have both. Unless you are one of those annoyingly rare people who turn their hobby into their job (and we've all read enough about those). Make Money, Be Happy shows that a career is just one income stream, and that many others exist. It offers the reader a different life perspective, one that integrates career ambition with greater personal financial control. It blasts financial fear and stupidity and attempts to replace it with knowledge and the desire for personal financial action (in order to do the things you love). The book provides lots of examples and basic finance tools and techniques to help you, the reader figure out *Why you earn what you earn *What you might really want to do with your life *What your career choices will mean, financially *What is the business case for you, right now, where you are *The concept of day rate versus salary *What is good to understand about investments *Self destructive spending habits *Ways to make a low income work harder *Ways to make a high income feel like one This book explains simple concepts buried underneath the jargon of financial management. The author digs so the reader doesn't have to
Make Your Own Luck: Success Tactics You’ll Never Learn in B-School
3 stars!
by Peter Kash, Tom Monte
A view of life maintaining that values, integrity and good deeds are rewarded
A view of life maintaining that values, integrity and good deeds are rewarded
How serendipity often provides unexpected opportunity
How to change your actions and values to become the person you want to be
Peter Morgan Mash seems to be one of those people upon whom good fortune shines. Just when he’s about to lose a big deal, chance rears its beautiful head to help him on his way; just when he’s about to give up on meeting a key potential investor, he ends up stuck in the elevator with him. To what does Mash attribute his good fortune? Simple kindness, integrity and personal values. By stressing these personal attributes, he says that anyone can benefit from the kindness of life
Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation
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by Frans Johansson
Sharing vivid stories from the domains of business, science, art, and politics about "intersections"--the space in which established ideas clash and combine with insights to create new ideas--Johansson reveals how readers can turn ideas into path breaking innovations.
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Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life
5 stars!
by Karen Rauch Carter
How to use Feng Shui to Get Love, Money, Respect and Happiness.
Promising health, wealth, and happiness, feng shui offers endless appeal -- at least in concept. Unfortunately, feng shui's seemingly complicated methods are often difficult to learn and apply in a meaningful way. Fortunately, "Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life" is written in plain and simple English for the modern Western reader. Revealing the ancient Chinese secrets that are as useful and necessary today as they have been for centuries, "Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life" communicates how to:
* MEET "THE ONE"
* FIND A DREAM JOB
* EARN BETTER GRADES IN SCHOOL
* ENJOY A BETTER SEX LIFE
Success Intelligence
5 stars!
by Robert Holden
Timeless Wisdom for a Manic Society
What is success? We're so busy chasing it that we've lost sight of what it actually means to us. With today's ever-accelerating pace, the expectation of delivering more, faster, has become the norm and we've begun to equate success with busyness. But does busyness really make us successful? More importantly, does it make us happy? Top corporate speaker and founder of the Happiness Project, Robert Holden, explains that while our permanent busyness may look like success, it doesn't deliver results. It blocks our vision and we lose sight of what is important in work, relationships and life. Robert shows us how to side-step the fast lane and take a broader perspective. By giving ourselves space to find out the reasons for our busyness, we can stop and consider what it is we really want in life - and make it happen. Written in thematic chapters that move us effectively towards our new life direction, this highly motivational book is full of entertaining stories, wise principles, practical exercises and winning formulas to get us the success and happiness we want, without the struggle and stress that holds us back.
The E Myth Revisited: Why most small businesses still don’t work and what you can do about yours
4 stars!
by Michael E. Gerber
In this first new and totally revised edition, Michael Gerber dispels the myths surrounding starting your own business and shows how commonplace assumptions can get in the way of running a business.
He walks you through the steps in the life of a business from entrepreneurial infancy, through adolescent growing pains, to the mature entrepreneurial perspective, the guiding light of all businesses that succeed. He then shows how to apply the lessons of franchising to any business whether or not it is a franchise. Finally, Gerber draws the vital, often overlooked distinction between working on your business and working in. your business. After you have read The E-Myth Revisited, you will truly be able to grow your business in a predictable and productive way.
The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
4 stars!
by Jack Canfield, Janet Switzer
Jack Canfield, cocreator of the phenomenal bestselling "Chicken Soup for the Soul" series, turns to the principles he's studied, taught, and lived for more than 30 years in this practical and inspiring guide that will help any aspiring person get from where they are to where they want to be.
"The Success Principles" will teach you how to increase your confidence, tackle daily challenges, live with passion and purpose, and realize all your ambitions. Not merely a collection of good ideas, this book spells out the 64 timeless principles used by successful men and women throughout history. Taken together and practiced every day, these principles will transform your life beyond your wildest dreams!
Filled with memorable and inspiring stories of CEOs, world-class athletes, celebrities, and everyday people, "The Success Principles" will give you the proven blueprint you need to achieve any goal you desire.
The Trick to Money is Having Some
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by Stuart Wilde
Stuart shows you that money is merely a form of energy -
and that the difference between having it and not having it is merely a small but subtle shift in consciousness.
The Trick to Money is Having Some
4 stars!
by Stuart Wilde
Stuart Wilde's fifth book deals with the E.S.P of easy money and the metaphysics of being in the right place at the right time, with the right idea and the right attitude.
Like his other highly successful books, this work is chock full of useful information. His breezy and comical style makes for effortless reading, as you plot your path to complete financial freedom.
Think and Grow Rich
4 stars!
by Napoleon Hill
Napoleon Hill, America's most beloved motivational author, devoted 25 years to finding out how the wealthy became that way. After interviewing over 500 of the most affluent men and women of his time, he uncovered the secret to great wealth based on the notion that if we can learn to think like the rich, we can start to behave like them.
By understanding and applying the thirteen simple steps that constitute Hill's formula, you can: achieve your goals; change your life, and; join the ranks of the rich and successful; In this updated edition, Dr. Arthur R. Pell provides examples of men and women who, in recent times, exemplify the principles that Hill promulgated. With the success stories of top achievers such as Bill Gates and Steven Spielberg, he proves that Hill's philosophies are as valid today as they were then. If you're looking to become the next Bill Gates, this is the book for you...
Health and Exercise
Fitness Walking
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by Therese Iknoian
Add structure and variety to your walks with specific programs and 60 workouts to use on your path to improved fitness and health.
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Truth, Lies & Chocolate
4 stars!
by Julie Meek
99 Facts & Fairytales about food
Do you find the truth hard to swallow? Not any more! With Julie Meek’s new comprehensive book, nutrition isn’t so scary. Her friendly style and bite sized morsels of information, will have you devouring healthy tips in no time.
Pick it up and open it to any page to find simple, straightforward facts that you can apply in your next meal or snack.
Walking for Health: The Complete Step-By-Step Guide to Getting Fit and Feeling Your Best
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by Veronica Reynolds, Dr William Bird
With so many benefits (low cost, low risk, can be done almost anywhere, essential for health and wellbeing), it's no wonder that walking is one of the most popular forms of exercise throughout the world. Whatever your fitness goal in life - greater energy, better cardiovascular health, stress reduction, weight control, emotional tranquillity - walking can help you achieve it.
Walking for Health and Happiness is your essential guide to all things a pied. It inspires you to get your walking shoes out and comes complete with all the latest information and medical research. The heart of the book is its emphasis on effective techniques, helping you get more out of any walk. There are also specially tailored walking programmes to meet the needs of all walkers - for beginners, intermediates and the advanced; for a healthy heart or bad back; for weight loss, and to get away from stress and to get back to happiness. The book also looks in depth at the different walking terrains and environments and the effects this can have on your walking. Health matters are also addressed, from the importance of eating for energy and keeping hydrated, to dealing with minor problems that walkers often experience like muscle strains and the dreaded blisters. Plus, it contains information about organising or joining a walking group for those who want to stroll and socialise. Finally, the last chapter is dedicated to the walker's kit, detailing the equipment that makes walking more effective, safer and enjoyable.
Self Development (General)
Advancing Your Spirit: Finding Meaning in Your Life’s Journey [Audio]
4 stars!
by Marianne Williamson and Wayne W. Dyer
Finding Meaning in Your Life's Journey
As you absorb the information on these four CDs, you'll find that you can transform your challenges and concerns into spiritual triumphs; learn the keys to empowering yourself in the midst of change, chaos, and complexity by understanding and applying spiritual principles to your life; and, discover the deeper meaning inherent in your daily experiences and see your life as a blueprint for growth and personal evolution.Listen as Wayne Dyer and Marianne Williamson impart their wisdom. This is a rare opportunity to hear two luminaries from the field of self-development together for the first time on an audio program.
An Intelligent Life
5 stars!
by Julian Short
A highly practical instruction book to help you make your life happier. It is a book about love, individuality, relationships and self-respect.
An Intelligent Life offers guidelines for maximising love and belonging while simultaneously showing how to strengthen individuality. In the book Dr Short offers specific techniques for managing relationships with lovers, friends, parents and children.
Despite its emphasis on control and personal effectiveness, ultimately living intelligently is not about winning, because the real measures of human worth are kindness and dignity, not success or status. This book is designed to show that we can lose and still like ourselves, liberating us to be hopeless at things, but sensational as people.
Being Human, for Human Beings
3 stars!
by Aniello Iannuzzi
A daily guide to some insights into... YOU.
This book takes time and understanding.
Apply yourself every day to each day's teaching and start to change your life.
Coaching With The Brain In Mind
5 stars!
by David Rock and Linda J Page, PhD
Foundations for Practice
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By understanding how the brain works, coaches can tailor their coaching practice to be in alignment with a client's way of thinking and behaving. This book uses brain-based methods to enhance the coach-client relationship more effectively. It presents tools and methodologies that can be employed by anyone, with or without coaching experience. Its highly practical approach allows professional coaches to begin using the book right away in their client work. This title is suitable for business and executive leadership coaches as well as personal coaches looking for practical information on how to achieve maximum success with their individual clients. Rock was featured in a "Business Week" article covering his courses on Brain Based Coaching. |
Daughters and their Dads
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by Bruce Robinson
Tips for Fathers, Adult Daughters, Husbands and Father-figures
A great book discussing this pivotal relationship in the development of girls into women.
Find Love
3 stars!
by Carolin Dahlman
A book for SINGLES!
This book takes you through a self-coaching process (there are plenty of exercises to do) - to help you find yourself and what it is in love you want!
Find Your Purpose, Change Your Life
5 stars!
by Carol Adrienne
Getting to the Heart of Your Life's Mission
The coauthor of the bestseller "The Celestine Prophecy: An Experimental Guide" shows readers how to use the unsuspected power of synchronicity and intuition to help anyone find their purpose in life.
For all those who have been enchanted by the power of synchronicity and are ready to be taken further down the path, "Find Your Purpose, Change Your Life" offers the next step. Here, Carol Adrienne, coauthor of the "New York Times" bestseller "The Celestine Prophecy: An Experimental Guide," provides a practical workbook that shows you how to tap the unsuspected potential of synchronicty -- the force revealed in everyday coincidences -- and use the power of your own intuition. Using dozens of examples from her own life and work, and offering an array of write-in exercises, Carol Adrienne reveals how you can use synchronicity to find your purpose in life and achieve the rewards that come from living in harmony with the souls'code.
Getting the Love You Want
5 stars!
by Harville Hendrix
A Guide for Couples
Originally published in 1988, GETTING THE LOVE YOU WANT has helped thousands of couples attain more loving, supportive and deeply satisfying relationships. In this groundbreaking book, Dr Harville Hendrix shares with you what he has learned about the psychology of love during more than thirty years of working as a therapist and helps you transform your relationship into a lasting source of love and companionship. For this edition of his classic book, Dr Hendrix and his wife, Helen LaKelly Hunt, have added a new introduction describing the powerful influence this book has had on so many people over the years. With its step-by-step programme, GETTING THE LOVE YOU WANT will help you create a loving, supportive and revitalized partnership.
Let Your Life Speak:
4 stars!
by Parker J. Palmer
Listening for the Voice of Vocation
With wisdom, compassion, and gentle humor, Parker J. Palmer invites us to listen to the inner teacher and follow its leadings toward a sense of meaning and purpose. Telling stories from his own life and the lives of others who have made a difference, he shares insights gained from darkness and depression as well as fulfillment and joy, illuminating a pathway toward vocation for all who seek the true calling of their lives.
Man’s Search For Meaning
5 stars!
by Viktor E Frankl
A 1991 reader survey by the Library of Congress and the Book-of-the-Month Club that asked readers to name a "book that made a difference in your life" found Man's Search for Meaning among the ten most influential books in America.
Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the experiences of those he treated in his practice, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose. Frankl's theory—known as logotherapy, from the Greek word logos ("meaning")—holds that our primary drive in life is not pleasure, as Freud maintained, but the discovery and pursuit of what we personally find meaningful.
At the time of Frankl's death in 1997, Man's Search for Meaning had sold more than 10 million copies in twenty-four languages. A 1991 reader survey by the Library of Congress and the Book-of-the-Month Club that asked readers to name a "book that made a difference in your life" found Man's Search for Meaning among the ten most influential books in America.
Norwegian Wood
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by Haruki Murakami
When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion, loss and desire - to a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marches into his life and he has to choose between the future and the past.
"A masterly novel. . . . Norwegian Wood bears the unmistakable marks of Murakami's hand." -"The New York Times Book Review"
"Norwegian Wood . . . not only points to but manifests the author's genius." -"Chicago Tribune"
"[A] treat . . . Murakami captures the heartbeat of his generation and draws the reader in so completely you mourn when the story is done." -"The Baltimore Sun"
"Vintage Murakami [and] easily the most erotic of [his] novels." -"Los Angeles Times Book Review"
Psycho Cybernetics
5 stars!
by Maxwell Mattz
How to use the power of self-image psychology for success
The original science of self improvement and success that has changed the lives of 30 million people.
The Art of Conversation
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by Catherine Blyth
Or, What to Say, and When
Every day we use our mobiles and computers to communicate, but ironically we are losing touch with face-to-face talk. Catherine Blyth reveals the endless possibilities of conversation and shows that when it works it can come close to heaven. With examples from Elizabeth I to Tommy Cooper, courtesans to nomads, The Art of Conversation is full of tips on listening, the perfect handshake, talking shop and surviving conversational bores. Be it sharing a joke with a stranger, sparking a new idea or just letting off steam with a friend, there are infinite adventures to be had if you break the ice and say hello ...
The Art of Conversation
-- stars!
by Catherine Blyth
A Guided Tour of a Neglected Pleasure
Blyth eloquently points out the sorry state of disrepair that conversation has fallen into and then, taking examples from history, literature, philosophy, anthropology, and popular culture, gives the tools necessary to rebuild this lost art.
The Art of Mingling: Proven Techniques for Mastering Any Room
3 stars!
by Jeanne Martinet
Proven Techniques for Mastering Any Room
Does the idea of talking to a lot of people you don't know make you weak in the knees? You may be suffering from mingle-phobia - a secret fear of parties. "The Art of Mingling" will show you how to overcome your fears, meet new people with charm and confidence, and achieve social success at every kind of party - business or pleasure. Filled with dozens of simple techniques, tricks, lines and manoeuvres, "The Art of Mingling" will help you: develop the right mindset for entering a room full of strangers; choose your first mingling target; deliver opening lines that really work; keep the conversation alive and interesting; master the etiquette of escape; circulate with grace and style; use advanced mingling techniques such as body language, accents, props, toasts, and name tags for maximum effect; recover from faux pas - everything from spills and memory lapses to wrong attire; negotiate tough rooms (too crowded, too empty, too "too"); and feel completely at ease at any kind of party
Spirituality
Advancing Your Spirit
5 stars!
by Marianne Williamson and Wayne W. Dyer
Finding Meaning in Your Life's Journey
As you absorb the information on these four CDs, you'll find that you can transform your challenges and concerns into spiritual triumphs; learn the keys to empowering yourself in the midst of change, chaos, and complexity by understanding and applying spiritual principles to your life; and, discover the deeper meaning inherent in your daily experiences and see your life as a blueprint for growth and personal evolution.Listen as Wayne Dyer and Marianne Williamson impart their wisdom. This is a rare opportunity to hear two luminaries from the field of self-development together for the first time on an audio program.
Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life
5 stars!
by Thomas Moore
New York Times' bestseller for over ten months, this is a life-style guide that shows how to add spirituality, depth, and meaning to modern-day life by nurturing the soul. It shows you how to look more deeply into emotional problems and sense the sacredness in ordinary things, easing frustration and emptiness and broadening your perspective on the meaning of your life.
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Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
4 stars!
by Neale Donald Walsch
Neal Donald Walsch was experiencing a low period in his life when he decided to write a letter to God, venting his frustrations. What he did not expect was a response. As he finished his letter, he was moved to continue writing - and out came extraordinary answers to his questions. This work presents the answers that Walsch received, helping him to change himself, his life and the way he viewed other beings.
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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
5 stars!
by Elizabeth Gilbert
A celebrated writers irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly pleasure, spiritual devotion, and what she really wanted out of life Around the time Elizabeth Gilbert turned thirty, she went through an early-onslaught midlife crisis. She had everything an educated, ambitious American woman was supposed to want a husband, a house, a successful career. But instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she was consumed with panic, grief, and confusion. She went through a divorce, a crushing depression, another failed love, and the eradication of everything she ever thought she was supposed to be.
To recover from all this, Gilbert took a radical step. In order to give herself the time and space to find out who she really was and what she really wanted, she got rid of her belongings, quit her job, and undertook a yearlong journey around the world all alone. "Eat, Pray, Love" is the absorbing chronicle of that year. Her aim was to visit three places where she could examine one aspect of her own nature set against the backdrop of a culture that has traditionally done that one thing very well. In Rome, she studied the art of pleasure, learning to speak Italian and gaining the twenty-three happiest pounds of her life. India was for the art of devotion, and with the help of a native guru and a surprisingly wise cowboy from Texas, she embarked on four uninterrupted months of spiritual exploration. In Bali, she studied the art of balance between worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. She became the pupil of an elderly medicine man and also fell in love the best way unexpectedly.
An intensely articulate and moving memoir of self-discovery, "Eat, Pray, Love" what can happen when you claim responsibility for your own contentment and stop trying to live in imitation of society’s ideals. It is certain to touch anyone who has ever woken up to the unrelenting need for change.
Entering the Castle
4 stars!
by Caroline Myss
Finding the Inner Path to God and Your Soul's Purpose
In true Caroline Myss style she takes you through a journey of self discovery and self exploration.
Spend some time on this one! It's worth it.
From Onions To Pearls
2 stars!
by Satyam Nadeen
A journal of awakening and deliverance
This is the true story of one man's spiritual awakening, without a guru and under severely restrictive conditions...
In March of 1992, Michael Clegg entered prison, convicted of manufacturing an illegal drug. While there, he realized that a lifetime of spiritual searching had brought him no closer to the elusive state he was seeking. In surrender, he was overwhelmed by relief and bliss. The next several years were spent in a deepening process he calls the "deliverance", as layers of preconditioned ego personality were peeled away to reveal the eternal Pearl of Consciousness. He left prison with a new name, Satyam Nadeen, and a new life
Happier Than God
3 stars!
by Neale Donald Walsch
Turn Ordinary Life into an Extraordinary Experience
Neale Donald Walsch always writes simply and makes the concepts easy to understand.
if you've read Conversations with God and watched "The Secret" - Neale Donald Walsch adds his unique touch to putting things into perspective again.
Have A Little Faith
4 stars!
by Mitch Albom
Will you do my eulogy? With those words, Mitch Albom begins his long-awaited return to non-fiction.
His journey to honour the last request of a beloved clergyman ultimately leads him to rekindle his own long-ignored faith. Albom spends years exploring churches and synagogues, the suburbs and the city, the 'us' versus 'them' of religion. Slowly, he gravitates to an inner-city pastor of a crumbling church that houses the homeless, and is stunned at how similar belief can be. As his own beloved cleric slowly lets go, Albom writes his final farewell, having learned that a faithful heart comes in many forms and places.
Holistic Living
3 stars!
by Neale Donald Walsch
Applications for Living
Practical spirituality for everyday living. Walsch distills the principles of his best-selling Conversations with God into a universal formula for living well.
Inspiration
5 stars!
by Wayne W. Dyer
Your Ultimate Calling
Each chapter in this book is filled with specifics for living an inspired life. From a very personal viewpoint, the bestselling author of "The Power of Intention" offers a blueprint through the world of spirit to inspiration.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this - each page is a living and learning experience!
Invisible Acts of Power
4 stars!
by Caroline Myss
Channeling Grace in Your Everyday Life
For more than two decades, internationally renowned pioneer in energy medicine Caroline Myss has been studying how people use their personal power. Through her special brand of spiritual insight and intuition, her popular workshops, and her bestselling books, Myss has helped hundreds of thousands of people meet the lifelong challenge of managing their spiritual energy and improving their lives.
Now, in this inspiring new book, Myss expands her message about power in an entirely new spiritual direction. With characteristic originality, she explains how we become channels for divine grace and a conduit for miracles through kind, compassionate, generous actions, or, as she calls them, invisible acts of power. When we act compassionately, without a private agenda or expectation of credit or reward, God works invisibly, anonymously through us. And as we move from visible acts, such as giving a friend a helping hand, to invisible acts, such as prayer and healing, we undergo a profound journey of personal empowerment.
The myriad simple but profound ways that people connect to create small miracles, gain a greater sense of spirituality, and transform their own -- and others' -- lives in an instant will inspire you to your own invisible acts of power...and attract them to you.
Let Go. Let miracles happen
4 stars!
by Kathy Cordova
The Art of Spiritual Surrender
Part I of The Art of Spiritual Surrender shows readers that surrender is much more powerful - and effective - than constant striving, or toughing it out at all costs. Based on wisdom drawn from the Bible and contemporary books, Cordova tells how she discovered and came to accept surrendering her own life. Part II is an inspirational collection of stories from people who have suffered everything from addictions to terminal diseases, and triumphed by surrendering.
Living the Wisdom of the Tao: The Complete Tao Te Ching and Affirmations (Paperback)
4 stars!
by Wayne W. Dyer
The Complete Tao Te Ching and Affirmations
Wayne Dyer has an affirmation per page with one paragraph per page.
Use this as you wish - one a day to challenge yourself!
Spiritual Growth
4 stars!
by Sanaya Roman
Being Your Higher Self (Earth life)
These processes taught by Orin, a spirit teacher, aim to help readers accelerate their spiritual growth, and live their life with more joy, harmony, peace and love. This work teaches readers how to be the higher self in everyday life, create a vision of higher purpose and manifest what you want. It teaches to work with light for healing and growth, to connect with the universal mind for enhanced creativity and to link with the higher will to carry out a higher purpose. The book gives tools to lift the veils of illusion, see truth, expand and contract time, raise vibration, achieve higher states of consciousness, open the heart and know yourself in new ways. It aims to show how to have more satisfying relationships with others by using the skills of non-attachement, right use of will, being transparent to others' energies and communicating as your higher self. Offering the next step in spiritual growth for those who want to know more about who they are, why you are here, and what you came to do, the book claims to align with higher energies that are coming into the earth plane and use them to create a better life.
Synchrodestiny: Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence to Create Miracles
5 stars!
by Deepak Chopra
Dr Deepak Chopra, the bestselling pioneer in mind/body medicine, shows how coincidences are messages about the miraculous potential of each moment. He reveals how, through understanding the forces that shape coincidences, you can learn to live at a deeper level and access the flow of synchronicity that lies at the heart of existence.
You can start to transform your life through full-contact living, in which all things will be within your reach. Discover: That there's no such thing as a meaningless coincidence; The seven principles of synchrodestiny; Practical techniques for applying those principles; The seeds of a perfect destiny lie within you. This remarkable book will show you how to release their potential and live a life more wondrous than dreams.