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PROCRASTINATION
Burk & Yuerba. Procrastination
Koch, Richard. The 80/20 Principle.
ENVIRONMENT & CLUTTER
Morgenstern, Julia. Organizing from the Inside Out.
Stoddard, Alexandra. Feeling at Home
Robin, Kathryn. Spiritual Housecleaning.
DREAMS & GOALS
Canfield & Hansen. The Aladdin Factor
Sark. The Creative Companion.
Sher, Barbara. I Could Do Anything, If Only I Knew What It Was
Sher, Barbara. Wishcraft.
FINANCE
More Than Money
Hill, Napoleon. Think and Grow Rich.
Lawrence, Judith. The Budget Kit.
Tyson, Eric. Personal Finance for Dummies.
WRITING & CREATIVITY
Bolker, Joan. Writing Your Dissertation in 15 Minutes a Day.
Cameron, Julia. The Artist’s Way.
Goldberg, Natalie. Writing Down the Bones.
BALANCE & MEDITATION
SARK. Juicy Living Cards.
Suzuki, Shunryo. Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind.
CAREER
Gerber, Michael. The E-Myth Revisited.
Hall & Brogniez. Attracting Perfect Customers.
Popyk, Bob. Here’s My Card.
LEGACY
Brower and Leon. The Consumer’s Guide to Effective Environmental Choices.
Gary and Kohner. Inspired Philanthropy
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PROCRASTINATION |Back to top|
Burk & Yuerba. Procrastination
The classic work on procrastination, this book breaks down the five most
common causes and offers ways to overcome the conscious and unconscious
mechanisms that lead perfectly intelligent, sane people to put off the
things they want.
Koch, Richard. The 80/20 Principle.
By showing different ways in which 20% of the joyful and difficult
results in life are caused by 80% of the inputs, and vice versa, Koch
opens up ways for individuals and businesses to begin to change their
results—by increasing the most effective things they do and decreasing
or eliminating the rest.
ENVIRONMENT & CLUTTER |Back to top|
Morgenstern, Julia. Organizing from the Inside Out.
Morgenstern is a professional organizer, and she knows all the tricks to
getting our lives in order, and all of the psychological and material
blocks that keep us from doing it—and ways to get around them.
Robin, Kathryn. Spiritual Housecleaning.
Clean your house or clear your spiritual life? We rarely put these two
processes together, but Robin argues that they are inextricably linked,
and that by working on our external environments, and gradually putting
them to rights, we will see positive results in our internal lives. As a
former house-cleaner (the kind with rubber gloves and elbow grease!)
and a current therapist and counselor, Robin offers both pragmatic
advice and spiritual insights.
Stoddard, Alexandra. Feeling at Home.
Stoddard offers both practical advice and plentiful inspiration to those
trying to recreate their home environments to support them in their
vulnerability and greatness.
DREAMS & GOALS |Back to top|
Canfield & Hansen. The Aladdin Factor.
This book focuses on turning wishes into realities by first, realizing
what we really wish for, and second by learning who, and how, to ask for
what we want.
Sark. The Creative Companion.
I love Sark. I’ve read a lot of books about Self Improvement, but she
makes moving forward FUN. She uses color and wit and plain honesty,
mixed with practical exercises, to get you going. My guru…
Sher, Barbara. I Could Do Anything, If Only I Knew What It Was.
Short review: Wishcraft for the Clueless. Long Review: For the
DaVincis and the unfocused geniuses among us, whether you have a high
school diploma or a Ph.D., this book can help you find your new way to
what you’ve been drawn to all your life.
Sher, Barbara. Wishcraft.
Sher, a very human, funny writer, helps you figure out what you want and
how you can strategize and network to start getting it into your life.
FINANCE |Back to top|
Hill, Napoleon. Think and Grow Rich.
In the early 1900s, Andrew Carnegie asked Hill to study how the
wealthiest and most successful people got that way and to systematize
the results so that others could follow their path. The result is this
book.
Lawrence, Judith. The Budget Kit.
The difference between having a vague idea of what you spend, save, and
invest, and knowing precisely is this book. It has helped me achieve the
impossible things that I decided to do after reading Think and Grow Rich.
Tyson, Eric. Personal Finance for Dummies.
The clearest explanation of how to achieve financial independence that I
know of; don’t be deceived by the “Dummies” title. This book is for
anyone who thinks financial freedom is complicated. It isn’t.
WRITING & CREATIVITY |Back to top|
Bolker, Joan. Writing Your Dissertation in 15 Minutes a Day.
She focuses on academic dissertations, but Joan Bolker’s principles are
useful for any kind of writing that has major deadline
pressure—internally or externally originated.
Cameron, Julia. The Artist’s Way.
The subtitle for this book ought to be “How to be a Sane Artist,” but in
fact anyone can benefit from Cameron’s insights into how to overcome
emotional obstacles to regular productive writing.
Goldberg, Natalie. Writing Down the Bones.
Goldberg is the other side of Joan Bolker’s coin. Goldberg focuses on
“creative” writing, but her principles can be followed by anyone trying
to get any kind of writing done. My own copy of this is worn fuzzy from
15 years of re-readings.
BALANCE & MEDITATION |Back to top|
SARK. Juicy Living Cards.
This deck of 50 colorful cards offers cheerful reminders to live more
vibrantly, with directives such as “Begin something new today,” “Napping
prepares the mind for fresh thoughts,” and “Leaps of faith put you in
astounding new places.” I keep the cards on my desk: SARK helps me be
more intentional with my optimism and faith in bigger possibilities.
Suzuki, Shunryo. Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind.
I got this book in college and have carried it with me ever since. If
you’ve practiced Zen meditation, Suzuki’s informal talks will come home
with familiar truth. If you’ve ever played a sport or an instrument,
written, prayed, danced, or cooked for your family, you will find his
comments about engaging in a constant practice as a way to immerse
yourself in what you do, in the moment.
CAREER |Back to top|
Gerber, Michael. The E-Myth Revisited.
Gerber argues that most entrepreneurs are good at the technical aspects
of their businesses but bad at the management part. He shows how
“technicians,” as he calls them, can learn to systematize the parts that
don’t come naturally.
Hall & Brogniez. Attracting Perfect Customers.
Using the Principle of Attraction, Hall & Brogniez offer a practical
strategy for attracting into your life the customers (and other things)
you desire. They focus on persistent clarity and regular actions to
create the magnetism that changes your reality.
Popyk, Bob. Here’s My Card.
For people who aren’t used to self-promotion, Popyk offers 95 ways to
use your business card to increase the efficacy of your networking. He
makes the process seem painless.
LEGACY |Back to top|
Brower and Leon. The Consumer’s Guide to Effective Environmental Choices.
The authors identify the consumer activities that have the most
significant impact on the planet. Moving beyond cloth diapers vs.
disposables, they offer pragmatic rules for responsible consumption in
large and small areas of daily life.
Gary and Kohner. Inspired Philanthropy.
If you want to change the world, it helps to have a plan. Gary and
Kohner offer exercises to “align your giving with your deepest values”
so that whether you can give a little or a lot, your charitable gifts
will have the impact you desire.
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