If a book is listed on this page, that means I have enjoyed reading every page of it AND I have also recommended it way too many times to remember to clients, friends, and family members.

All these books are also sitting on my bookshelf in my office. Not only does the voracious reader that I am love them all, but I get so excited just thinking how good they are!

ADRIENNE, Carol

The Purpose of Your Life

The co-author of The Celestine Prophecy Experiential Guide helps readers uncover the unsuspected, untapped power of synchronicity and intuition that will bring success, satisfaction, and serenity.

“Everyone really has a purpose in life,” says Carol Adrienne in her new guide to harnessing the power inside yourself. “The question is: How do you learn to go with the flow and let your true nature guide you?”

Chapter by chapter, The Purpose of Your Life explains how to locate the source of your innate energy and focus it, how to align yourself with the natural forces that swirl around us always, and how to develop the intuition that fosters synchronicity.

The book is packed with illuminating anecdotes and profiles of fascinating people – from artists to urban planners to Zen masters – who describe how they found their own purposes. There are practical exercises throughout, along with charts, self-questionnaires, and other tools that help you understand yourself and your deepest aspirations.

As you learn to recognize and trust the voice of intuition, you’ll find new doors opening and new possibilities everywhere. You’ll feel invigorated by the potential you’ve unleashed, a power that will only grow with each new accomplishment. And you’ll discover the serenity and satisfaction that come only to those who are living life to the fullest. The force is with you – all you have to do is reach out and start to use it.

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When Life Changes or You Wish It Would

If your life is changing – or you wish it would – let bestselling, life-change counselor Carol Adrienne help you: locate where you are in the cycle of change; move forward after setbacks or losses; recognize and revise limited thinking; attract positive opportunities; discover clues hidden in everyday events; tap into the wisdom of your intuition; affirm your ability to handle whatever happens.

When Life Changes or You Wish It Would is for anyone who isn’t happy with the status quo and wants to take life to the next level. Change can be exhilarating and terrifying – often both at the same time. Carol Adrienne has helped thousands pursue their heart’s desire. If you face challenges in family, career, or other areas, or feel stuck or fearful, she can help you find your mission and keep your focus as you forge ahead into the unknown.

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ALLEN, James

As A Man Thinketh

This little volume (the result of meditation and experience) is not intended as an exhaustive treatise on the much-written-upon subject of the power of thought. It is suggestive rather than explanatory, its object being to stimulate men and women to the discovery and perception of the truth that –

“They themselves are makers of themselves”

by virtue of the thoughts which they choose and encourage; that mind is the master-weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance, and that, as they may have hitherto woven in ignorance and pain, they may now weave in enlightenment and happiness.

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ANDRUS, Crystal

Simply… Woman!

Simply… Woman! is a week-by-week body/mind/soul total transformation program that encompasses every facet of a woman’s life. From her daily demands and frustrations to her wants, needs, and fears, this revolutionary plan elevates the experience of weight loss far beyond the physical. With 70 steps, which are gently laid out over 12 weeks, this book effectively empowers women to take back control of their health, discover their passion, override their fears, and create a life filled with joy and serenity – thin thighs are just the by-product!

Included in this 12-week total transformation program are: 10 Steps to Living with Authenticity, 25 Top Fat-Burning Secrets, and the Tight & Toned Workout DVD. Unlike anything you’ve ever tried before, Simply… Woman! will truly transform your life from the inside out!

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Transcendent Beauty

At the moment of conception, our soul fills us with a radiant light, as it gently whispers into every cell of every baby girl that we are beautiful. But as our mind begins to develop, a new voice begins to emerge: that of the ego. This voice tells us what we “should have done,” what we “must look like,” or how we “need to be.” It can talk so much, and so loudly, that if we listen to it long enough we’ll become so distracted from our soul that our light, once vibrant and radiant, becomes dull and dim.

Often when we meet a person who has “lit up the room,” we say that she’s beautiful. The transcendently beautiful have an inner beacon that’s brilliantly lit and brimming with bliss. They’ve learned how to radiate light while calming the ego – knowing that when the mind abides by the soul, the body, in turn, is connected to this knowingness, and transcendent beauty follows. Such women SHINE! The world is magically attracted to them. And while most people talk about attractiveness as being merely physical, true beauty definitely comes from the soul.

If you embrace and practice the principles outlined in Transcendent Beauty, you’ll see how easy it can be for you, too, to shine with an intoxicating power!

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ASSARAF, John

Having It All

No matter what you want in your life, Having It All will take you from where you are to where you want to be. Entrepreneur John Assaraf started with nothing and went on to create a multimillion-dollar empire and achieve the life of his dreams, earning himself the nickname “The Street Kit.” Now he shares the best of what he’s learned so you, too, can create the life of your dreams.

Having It All contains practical exercises and powerful lessons to help you achieve greater happiness and long-lasting success. You will learn how to:

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The Answer

What does “success” mean to you? Is it building the business of your dreams? Achieving financial independence? Giving back to the community? What would it take to make all your dreams come true?

In this life-changing book, John Assaraf, a key team member behind the phenomenal success of The Secret, and business-growth guru Murray Smith will help you discover bold, new ways to harness the unlimited power of your mind to achieve exactly what you heart desires. You can immediately begin using the practical steps offered in this book to grow any business into a meaningful and profitable enterprise that can flourish in any economy.

In The Answer, you’ll learn how to:

Gain the confidence you need, the information you require, and the specific steps to follow to build the business – and life – you’ve always wanted in The Answer.

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The Complete Vision Board Kit

A vision board is a powerful tool that anyone can use to shape an ideal future through the power of intention and visualization. Learning how to vividly imagine your desired results – attracting your perfect soul mate, radiant health, abundant career opportunities, or building personal and community relationships to give back – is the first step on the path to making them happen. Break through unconscious, limiting beliefs and get ready to transform your future now. If you can envision it, you’re halfway there!

The Complete Vision Board Kit includes John Assaraf’s DVD, The Secret to Your Best Year Ever, plus his latest book, The Vision Board Book, which walks you through the entire process of creating and properly utilizing a vision board. Use the included blank vision board and glossy sheet of inspiring images and words to get you started, or go online with a free 14-day trial of John Assaraf’s Virtual Vision Board and expand your future even more!

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ATTWOOD, Janet Bray and Chris

The Passion Test

We’d all like to feel our life is purposeful. We’d like to be motivated and inspired by our pursuits, to be successful in achieving our goals. We’d like to live a life with passion. Yet four out of five Americans feel unsatisfied, unhappy, and unfulfilled. In The Passion Test, Janet Bray Attwood and Chris Attwood introduce a simple yet powerful system for discovering your passions and living your destiny – effortlessly.

The Passion Test will help you uncover layer by layer the things in your life that are most important to you. When you’ve completed the Test, you’ll so clearly know what your passions are, they will come alive inside you. You’ll be able to see, feel, touch, taste, smell, and create your passionate life.

Not only will you learn how to start doing the things in life that make you feel motivated, courageous, and fulfilled, you’ll be inspired by the stories of ordinary people who have aligned their lives with their passions, including the one of Janet Bray Attwood’s fascinating trek to India. You’ll also meet some of the most remarkable people in our society who are models of living passionately.

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BEATTIE, Melody

Codependent No More

Is someone else’s problem your problem? If, like so many others, you’ve lost sight of your own life in the drama of tending to someone else’s, you may be codependent – and you may find yourself in this book.

The healing touchstone of millions, this modern classic by one of America’s best-loved and most inspirational authors holds the key to understanding codependency and to unlocking its stultifying hold on your life.

With instructive life stories, personal reflections, exercises, and self-tests, Codependent No More is a simple, straightforward, readable map of the perplexing world of codependency – charting the path to freedom and a lifetime of healing, hope, and happiness.

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Beyond Codependency

You’re learning to let go, to live your life free of the grip of someone else’s problems. And yet, you find you’ve just started on the long journey of recovery. Let Melody Beattie, author of the classic Codependent No More, help you along your way.

A guided tour past the pitfalls of recovery, Beyond Codependency is dedicated to those struggling to master the art of self-care. It is a book about what to do once the pain has stopped and you’ve begun to suspect that you have a life to live. It is about what happens next.

In simple, straightforward terms, Beattie takes you into the territory beyond codependency, into the realm of recovery and relapse, family-of-origin work and relationships, surrender, and spirituality. With personal stories, hard-won insights, and activities, her book teaches the lessons of dealing with shame, growing in self-esteem, overcoming deprivation, and getting past fatal attractions long enough to find relationships that work.

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BECK, Aaron T.

Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders

Is the emotionally disturbed person a victim of forces beyond his awareness, over which he has no control? This is the belief on which neuropsychiatry, psychoanalysis, and behavior therapy are all based. But what if this premise is wrong? What if a person’s psychological difficulties stem from his own erroneous assumptions and faulty concepts of himself and the world? Such a person can be helped to recognize and correct distortions in thinking that cause his emotional disturbance.

Now one of the founders of cognitive therapy has written a clear, comprehensive guide to its theory and practice, highlighting such important concepts as:

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BOUCHARD, Jim

Think Like a Black Belt

Tired of getting kicked around by life? Wondering where you’re going to get the energy to face another challenge? Do you feel you’ve got talent and ability, but lack the confidence to get it out there? Are you already successful, but want to take it to another level?

Change the way you think about life, business, and success forever. From now on… Think Like a Black Belt!

The author takes you inside the mind of the Black Belt to develop confidence, courage, discipline, focus, and leadership for excellence in personal and professional life. Jim Bouchard combines the wisdom of the ancient masters with a bold new voice for our contemporary challenges. This is practical philosophy written in a blunt, often humorous, and always accessible style by a guy who knows the streets, has tasted hardship, and knows how to stay in the ring and keep punching!

You’ll develop a clear understanding of the fundamental character traits and values that lead to a successful and happy life, no matter how you define that life. You’ll learn how to apply these characteristics to create your personal vision of success in personal and professional life. You’ll learn how to share these ideals with others through effective leadership.

This is not another self-help cookbook full of hollow promises of quick fixes, shortcuts, and mind games; it’s a gut-level examination of what it takes to reach your goals and how to develop the mental toughness it takes to keep going when times are tough.

You don’t have to be a martial artist yourself or even know how to kick to put these powerful ideas to work for you. You only have to be open to changing the way you think – to Think Like a Black Belt!

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BYRNE, Rhonda

The Power

This is the handbook to the greatest power in the universe – The Power to have everything you want.

Without The Power, you would not have been born. Without The Power, there wouldn’t be a single human being on the planet. Every discovery, invention, and human creation comes from The Power. Perfect health, incredible relationships, a career you love, a life filled with happiness, and the money you need to be, do, and have everything you want, all come from The Power.

The life of your dreams has always been closer to you than you realized, because The Power – to have everything good in life – is inside you.

To create anything, to change anything, all it takes is just one thing… The Power.

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The Secret

Fragments of a Great Secret have been found in the oral traditions, in literature, in religions and philosophies throughout the centuries. For the first time, all the pieces of The Secret come together in an incredible revelation that will be life-transforming for all who experience it.

In this book, you’ll learn how to use The Secret in every aspect of your life – money, health, relationships, happiness, and in every interaction you have in the world. You’ll begin to understand the hidden untapped power that’s within you, and this revelation can bring joy to every aspect of your life.

The Secret contains wisdom from modern-day teachers – men and women who have used it to achieve health, wealth, and happiness. By applying the knowledge of The Secret, they bring to light compelling stories of eradicating disease, acquiring massive wealth, overcoming obstacles, and achieving what many would regard as impossible.

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BURNS, David D.

Feeling Good

The good news is that anxiety, guilt, pessimism, procrastination, low self-esteem, and other “black holes” of depression can be cures without drugs.

In Feeling Good, eminent psychiatrist David D. Burns, M.D., outlines the remarkable, scientifically proven techniques that will immediately lift your spirits and help you develop a positive outlook on life:

Recognize what causes your mood swings; Nip negative feelings in the bud; Deal with guilt; Handle hostility and criticism; Overcome addiction to love and approval; Beat “do-nothingism”; Avoid the painful downward spiral of depression; Build self-esteem; Feel good every day.

Begin now to experience the joy of Feeling Good.

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CANFIELD, Jack

The Aladdin Factor

ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE… if you dare to ask!

Personal happiness. Professional success. Freedom from fear – and a new promise of joy that’s yours for the asking.

We have the ability at our fingertips to achieve these things. It’s the Aladdin Factor: the magical wellspring of confidence, desire – and the willingness to ask – that allows us to make wishes come true. Now bestselling motivational authors Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen introduce us to the Aladdin Factor – and help us put it into effect in our own lives.

The Aladdin Factor helps us by pinpointing the major stumbling blocks to asking – and teaching simple techniques to overcome them. With inspirational stories about people who have succeeded by asking for what they want, this book shows us how to turn our lives around – no matter what kind of obstacles we face. And with this knowledge, we can reap the riches of a truly well-lived life – a treasure that comes not from an enchanted lamp, but from the heart.

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The Power of Focus

Do you know the #1 reason that stops people from getting what they want?

It’s LACK OF FOCUS. People who focus on what they want, prosper. Those who don’t struggle. Between these covers, you’ll discover the specific focusing strategies used by the world’s most successful men and women.

Whatever you want, The Power of Focus will help you achieve it. This treasury of practical wisdom includes easy-to-implement Action Steps that will significantly free up your time, dramatically improve your bank account, and solidly enrich your most important relationships.

Here’s a sample of what you’ll learn. How to:

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The Success Principles

Jack Canfield, co-creator 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.

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CLINTON, Bill

Giving

Here, from Bill Clinton, is a call to action. Giving is an inspiring look at how each of us can change the world. First, it reveals the extraordinary and innovative efforts now being made by companies and organizations – and by individuals – to solve problems and save lives both “down the street and around the world.” Then it urges us to seek out what each of us, “regardless of income, available time, age, and skills,” can do to help, to give people a chance to live out their dreams.

Bill Clinton shares his own experiences and those of other givers, representing a global flood tide of non-governmental, nonprofit activity. These remarkable stories demonstrate that gifts of time, skills, things, and ideas are as important and effective as contributions of money. From Bill and Melinda Gates to a six-year-old California girl named McKenzie Steiner, who organized and supervised drives to clean up the beach in her community, Clinton introduces us to both well-known and unknown heroes of giving.

Clinton writes about men and women who traded in their corporate careers, and the fulfillment they now experience through giving. He writes about energy-efficient practices, about progressive companies going green, about promoting fair wages and decent working conditions around the world. He shows us how one of the most important ways of giving can be an effort to change, improve, or protect a government policy. He outlines what we individuals can do, the steps we can take, how much we should consider giving, and why our giving is so important.

Bill Clinton’s own actions in his post-presidential years have had an enormous impact on the lives of millions. Through his foundation and his work in the aftermath of the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, he has become an international spokesperson and model for the power of giving.

“We all have the capacity to do great things,” President Clinton says. “My hope is that the people and stories in this book will lift spirits, touch hearts, and demonstrate that citizen activism and service can be a powerful agent of change in the world.”

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CLOUD, Henry

The Secret Things of God

A positive Christian alternative to the bestselling The Secret, this book reveals the “secret things of God” – secrets about God, about happiness, about relationships, and about your purpose. These tested spiritual truths reveal principles that make like work.

With millions of copies of The Secret in print, countless readers are left wondering how its teachings fit with the truths found in Scripture. Though many teachings in The Secret may have shocked those of the Christian faith, believers have also been reminded of the deep spiritual hunger that exists in all of us – the desire for a power beyond the human to work change in our individual lives.

Even Christians who know and claim biblical truths often don’t know how to use them. Author Dr. Henry Cloud shows readers how to unlock the treasure of these truths and ignite their power in their lives.

There is, indeed, a powerful attraction at work in the universe, but rather than being between an impersonal universe and our own thoughts, this attraction is between the personal Creator of the universe and the creation he loves.

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COLLIER, Robert

The Secret of the Ages

Publisher and businessman Robert Collier had a pitch-perfect sense of how to tell a story – and in The Secret of the Ages, he happened upon one of the greatest stories of all time.

After recovering from an illness with the help of mental healing, the young Collier, scion of a wealthy publishing family, immersed himself in studying the powers of the human mind. What he discovered filled him with awe: human beings, since the dawn of history, have used the applied principles of mental visualization to improve life for themselves and those around them.

This was “The Secret of the Ages” – and Collier  became its most compelling exponent.

In The Secret of the Ages, Collier provides simple, straight-to-the-point methods for how men and women everywhere can harness their hidden mental faculties. In this extraordinary book, we learn:

Newly available in its expanded edition as completed by the original author, The Secret of the Ages may be the most persuasive portrait ever of the laws of mind-power in action.

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