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Books
Self-Improvement Books:
Success in Life
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People : Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
by Stephen R. Covey
Amazon.com Review excerpts
A groundbreaker when it was first published in 1990, and it continues to be a business bestseller with more than 10 million copies sold. Stephen Covey, an internationally respected leadership authority, realizes that true success encompasses a balance of personal and professional effectiveness, so this book is a manual for performing better in both arenas. His anecdotes are as frequently from family situations as from business challenges.
This isn't a quick-tips-start-tomorrow kind of book. The concepts are sometimes intricate, and you'll want to study this book, not skim it. When you finish, you'll probably have Post-it notes or hand-written annotations in every chapter, and you'll feel like you've taken a powerful seminar by Covey. --Joan Price ]
"Knowledge is the quickest and safest path to success in any area of life. Stephen Covey has encapsulated the strategies used by all those who are highly effective. Success can be learned and this book is a highly effective way to learn it". ---Charles Given, President, Charles J. Givens Organization, Inc., author of Wealth Without Risk.
Ranks 57th among Amazon's top 100 selling books.
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If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules
This book resonates with the truths that nobody told you--but you wish they had.
Ms. Carter-Scott wrote these rules as a handout for a workshop she was teaching. The "rules" sparked so much interest that, unbeknownst to the author, many people made copies and distributed them to friends. Within a few years, the rules were being quoted by other lecturers. They later appeared anonymously in the huge bestseller Chicken Soup for the Soul.
This book, "a basic spiritual primer for what it means to be a human," discusses each of the 10 rules with kindness, eloquence, and wisdom. For example, rule 1 is, "You will receive a body. You may love it or hate it, but it will be yours for the duration of your life on Earth." Carter-Scott discusses the challenge of making peace with the body we've been given, and the lessons of acceptance (appreciating it as it is), self-esteem (viewing yourself as worthy, despite how your body looks or performs), respect (treating it like a "valuable and irreplaceable object"), and pleasure (indulging in the five senses to "unlock the joy stored within you"). Similarly, each of the rules has four "lessons." You'll read this inspirational book more than once, and mark quotes to tell friends.
BagongPinay says:
I read this book and wished that somebody had taught us all this before we went off to college and ventured into the real world. The book is a treasure of wisdom on your inner self, dealing with people, living your life to the fullest . --- P.P. Daly
Ranks 67th in the top 100 selling books at Amazon.com.
Amazon.com has excerpted "Rule Eight: What You Make of Your Life Is Up to You." Read an excerpt
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Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self When There's Got to Be Something More
Sarah Ban Breathnach, author of Simple Abundance and modern-day Thoreau, is back with Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self, a guided excavation for women who suspect that there's something more to life than the top layer pursuits of money, sex, and love.
No matter how spectacular their lives may be, women today are plagued by the nagging feeling that there must be something more to happiness. And they're right. In this insightful and eloquent book, Sarah Ban Breathnach explores the nine stages necessary to living authentically: Sensing, Surviving, Settling, Stumbling, Selling Out, Starting Over, Searching, Striving, and finally, SOMETHING MORE. Through storytelling and interpretations, she leads women on a path to becoming "Archaeologists of Themselves" and helps them discover that that "something more" was deep within them all along.
Within these pages lie powerful truths that can change your life...and inspire you to settle for nothing less than SOMETHING MORE.
By providing women with this knowledge, author Breathnach offers readers a way to profoundly change their lives - forever.
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Working with Emotional Intelligence
Success is not dependent on IQ, but rather your emotional competencies---how well you motivate yourself, handle your emotions, and carry influence in relationships and social situations. Anyone who wants to learn how to become more effective and respected at work or in interpersonal relationships will find it a worthwhile and thoughtful read. Read more at Amazon.com
Ranks 33rd in the top 100 selling books at Amazon.com.
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