10 Great Books on Self Development to Add to Your “Read List”

“The joy of life consists in the exercise of one’s energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.” – Aleister Crowley

Check out our list of top self-development books which need to find their way onto your bookshelf.

1. Own Your Success: The Power to Choose Greatness and Make Every Day Victorious by Ben Newman

What’s interesting about this book is that it’s written like a work of fiction, or a business fable if you will. It tells a story about a businessman named Pierce, and his ups and down. Throughout the story, he meets 4 different mentors, and each one teaches him a different lesson about life, which you, as a reader, need to apply to your own life.

2. The 5 Personality Patterns: Your Guide to Understanding Yourself and Others and Developing Emotional Maturity by Steven Kessler

This book is written under the assumption that most conflicts and suffering we experience in our lifetime is due to our inability to understand and communicate with each other effectively due to the patterns of feeling and acting we have learned since childhood. With this book, you will learn how to discard those patterns, and discover your true self.

3. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey

Through a series of anecdotes and insightful observations, this book acts as a step-by-step guide through the principles we need to apply in our lives if we want to grow, evolve, and become better human beings. These principles apply to your personal and professional life, and will help you seize the opportunities that you come across constantly, but which you fail to see.

4. Habit Stacking: 97 Small Life Changes That Take Five Minutes or Less by S.J. Scott

We all know that adding even a single good habit into our lives can be difficult, let alone dozens of new ones. But, this book provides you with a clear guide on how to integrate multiple positive habits into a single routine which you will perform on a daily basis. Using a simple checklist, you will avoid the stress of implementing all those individual habits.

5. 177 Mental Toughness Secrets of the World Class by Steve Siebold

The author of this book argues that, no matter how you are and where you come from, you can become a brilliant performer and achieve success. By showing the thought processes, habits, and approaches adopted by the world’s best, you will be able to learn by example and do the same yourself.

6. The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss

While the title may seem a bit exaggerated, the author of this book was successful in cutting down his working hours by a significant percentage by outsourcing a bunch of menial, but necessary tasks to virtual assistants, and by checking his email only once a day. That alone will save you a ton of time in your everyday life.

7. Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny! by Tony Robbins

Here you will find a series of instructions and step-by-step guides on how to take control of your thoughts, emotions, body, relationships, and just about every other aspect of your life. By teaching yourself self-mastery, you will be able to shape your life into something that you’ve always dreamed of.

8. Eat That Frog!: Twenty-One Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time by Brian Tracy

Instead of helping us save time, modern technology has provided us with the means to waste it. We all enjoy procrastinating, which is a poor habit, and this helpful read will enable you to get rid of it once and for all. By offering 21 effective methods, you will be able to resist the negative temptations of modern living.

9. The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential by John C. Maxwell

This book demonstrates that there are indeed laws you can follow in order to grow as a human being. The author has laid out these laws in a manner that is clear and easy to follow, and you will have no trouble fulfilling your full potential. In fact, it will just keep on growing.

10. No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline by Brian Tracy

Through 21 chapters, this book will teach you that the key to success is not being lucky, or being born rich, but being disciplined. You will learn how to adopt a new mindset where there is no more room for excuses, for being lazy, or for instant gratification. You will learn how to achieve your personal and professional goals.

Conclusion

These books should be an essential read for anyone, and especially for those among you who are always on the quest for more. Check them out today and make the best of your life!

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If you feel that you’re not living up to your fullest potential, you only need to follow ten key steps to get you where you need to go and operate at the highest level you’re capable of operating at. Whether you want to get in better physical shape, earn more money, achieve greater emotional fulfillment or improve your mental sharpness, the steps below can help you get the job done.
These steps provide a framework you can use to fill in based on your specific situation or circumstances. The key is to start taking these steps today. Get on the road to a better life starting now!

Step 1: Get a clear idea of what you want to achieve and why

Too many people are unhappy, lack contentment, or feel frustrated because they don’t have a clear idea of what they want. In many cases, they ‘want’ something simply because other people want it. This is a sure recipe for personal unhappiness.

For example, if you want to make $250,000 a year or lose 30 pounds because that’s what other people want, you might have a tough time reaching these objectives. Why? They aren’t your own. You are simply living up to others’ expectations or simply following the crowd.

Instead, pick objectives that make sense personally. You can still aim to make $250,000 a year or lose weight because of personal reasons like exercising a high level of personal discipline and focus or some other personal reason. The key is take ownership of your objectives.

Step 2: Determine what you need to do to achieve your objectives

Now that you have set your sights on an objective due to truly personal reasons, your next step is to get a clear idea of what you need to do to reach those objectives. Be as brutally realistic as possible. Don’t expect your wished for results to simply happen by accident.

You’re not going to lose weight by random just as you won’t make a lot of money by simply wishing for it. You have to list the precise set of realistic steps you need to make your objectives become reality.

Focus on the following questions:

What do I have to sacrifice?
How hard will I have to work?
What kind of changes do I have to make?

Step 3: Set realistic, achievable goals with timelines

Now that you have set your objectives and gotten a clear idea of what you need to do to attain them, your next step is to convert your objectives into concrete goals. Keep in mind that objectives are results. Goals are specific things that have to happen for your objectives to become reality.

Example: if your objective is to be emotionally balanced at all time, your goal should be to be more patient, even-tempered, and mellow. These are measurable. It is easy to compare your ‘old self’ to your ‘new self’ with these goals.

Set a timeline so you can measure your progress. There is no such thing as an unrealistic goal. Even the biggest, most seemingly impossible goals can be reached if you break them down into enough sub-goals with a matching timeline.

Don’t set impossible deadlines. Don’t set deadlines you know you won’t meet. Instead, set deadlines which are challenging. These are designed to push you to take action.

Step 4: Be clear as to what holds you back

Be aware of the arrangements, situations, obligations, and other external factors that are holding you back from operating at peak levels. By clearly identifying them, you can start working to remove them, replace them, or push them out of the way as you work towards your goals.
For example: if your goal is to lose 25 pounds, one key factor holding you back is the fact that you eat late at night. Be clear as to why this prevents you from reaching your goal. Understand that when you eat lots of calories at precisely the period of time your metabolic system is slowing down, a lot of those calories will be stored instead of burned for energy. The more calories your body stores, the fatter you get.

Step 5: Get rid of limiting beliefs

While Step 4 is crucial, you have to understand the beliefs that undergird the things that hold you back. You engage in limiting behavior or find yourself in limiting arrangements and relationships because you have certain mindsets. You need to identify the core mindsets that lie beneath these limitations and get rid of them.

For example: if one of the limiting habits that get in the way of you reaching your ideal weight is the fact you eat for ‘comfort,’ you need to change your eating mindset. You believe that eating certain foods give you emotional balance and comfort. You believe there’s a link between a certain emotional state and eating certain food. Breaking this linking belief leads to reduced calorie intake because you stop eating fatty or sugary foods when you feel stressed or depressed.

Step 6: Learn to enjoy the process

Understand that reaching your personal peak is not a destination. Instead, it is a process where you learn more about yourself. Enjoy the process. Don’t obsess about the destination but enjoy the journey.

Step 7: Measure success the right way

If you measure your success the wrong way, you will only surely feel discouraged, depressed, and defeated. For example, if your objective is to learn how to spot and turn opportunities into solid financial rewards, you will feel depressed when you don’t reach your goal of making $25,000 a month.

Learn to measure your success the right way by using success metrics based on where you are in your journey. Taking the same example above, measure your success based on whether you have identified a set of money making opportunities and whether you have picked the most promising one and started taking steps to take advantage of such opportunities. See the difference? You measure your success not in terms of final outcomes but based on the steps you need to take to get to your goal.

Step 8: Recognize momentum

Let’s face it, the road to operating at peak levels can be rough especially if you have unproductive habits that get in the way. It is too easy to feel that the more you try, the more distant your objective seems to be. Eventually, you start thinking it is all pointless and you give up.
To short-circuit this very common problem, focus on identifying momentum. The good news is that whenever you start working towards a goal, you eventually get used to the work involved and it takes less and less effort to do what you need to do to get to the goal. Learn to recognize when you’ve hit momentum and get a large amount of satisfaction from that. This will help you avoid feeling impatient and frustrated.

Step 9: Lose yourself in the moment

As you work to change your mindset, your habits, and your daily activities so you can reach peak levels of performance in certain areas of your life, always remember that every single day you stick to your plan and take action is a victory. Understand this. Savor it. Lose yourself in the satisfaction of getting one step, even if it just an inch, closer to the peak levels you desire.

Losing yourself in the moment goes a long way in giving you the inner resolve, sustained will power, and strength of character you need to reach peak levels and stay there.

Step 10: Keep challenging yourself

If you follow the steps above, you’d be surprised as to how quickly you can reach peak levels. Once you reach peak levels, the key to sustaining them is to continuously challenge yourself. For example: if you can make $100 a day, you can make $200 a day. If you can make $200 a day, you can make $300 a day, so on and so forth. Don’t get complacent.

Never settle. Keep pushing yourself. Keep challenging yourself to go higher and higher.
Follow the steps above to reach your peak level of performance. Regardless of which aspect of your life you wish to improve these steps help you aim higher and push farther than ever before. Success is not just learned behavior. It is a habit. Develop a sustainable success habit today by following the steps above.

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All such content try to teach you how to achieve peak performance and enjoy optimal results by appealing to your proactive side. That’s right-they appeal to the part of your mind that is driven by desire, passion, and motivated by hopes and dreams. Put simply, they work on the positive side of your brain.

The problem with such an approach is that, for the most part, all of us aren’t always positive and proactive. In fact, in many situations, we would only make a move if our backs are against the wall. All the positive talk in the world won’t get us to take action until and unless the chips are down. Welcome to the reactive side of the human mind.

Interestingly enough, when it comes to getting results and getting things done, a reactive or negative approach works better than a proactive or positive approach. This article appeals to the reactive part of your mind. Forget your hopes and dreams for a moment and focus on the following mindsets and how they result in you failing time after time. Learn to recognize these and work around them so you can start getting the optimal results you want.

Failure Method #1: Failing to fully believe in what you’re doing

People who fail to achieve their goals often fail because they sabotage themselves. They don’t really fully believe in what they’re doing. In many cases, they doubt what they’re doing and are simply just going through the motions. In the back of their minds, they give themselves an ‘out.’ They think of alternative things or alternative solutions they could be trying. They often feel they are just doing something that’s ‘second best’ or ‘better than nothing.
If you think thoughts that erode your faith in what you’re doing, you are never going to succeed. Success requires focus at all levels-physical, mental, and emotional. After all, where your full focus goes, your full energy flows. When you are ‘keeping your options open’ by constantly thinking of alternatives as you work on something, you fail to give it your all. Your heart just isn’t fully in it.

Don’t be surprised if things don’t pan out. You weren’t into it all the way and things have a way of falling apart due to your lack of faith.

How do you fix this very common problem? Simple. Burn your ships behind you. Don’t give yourself an out. Don’t give yourself an alternative. Tell yourself that you either succeed with this particular project or you fail miserably. Commit one hundred percent. Focus your energy on making whatever it is you’re doing succeed. This means engaging our creativity and imagination to solve whatever problems arise. You can’t do this when you’re double-minded or fuzzy about your goal.

Failure Method #2: Confusing ‘Analysis’ with action

Thinking about something is not the same as doing something. This seems like common sense to most people but you’d be surprised as to how many people confuse the two. They think that as long as they buy a book or educational materials about an opportunity or project and read it, they are ‘doing’ something. 

Absolutely wrong.

Getting information is great. Doing your due diligence is not just important it is crucial. Making sure you have enough information to make an informed decision is not just smart, it is vital. With that said, you need to reach a point where you pull the trigger. 

You have to make a decision and commit.
Sadly, too many people are afraid of this so they ‘comfort’ themselves about the risk they’ll be undertaking by getting more and more information. It never ends. Why? You can never get enough information. There is just no way you can be fully assured that you all the information about your decision.

Sadly, ‘analysis paralysis’ leads to failure. Every single time. As Wayne Gretzy said, you miss one hundred percent of the shots you don’t take. If you try to overcome the fear you have about the risks of a particular project by continuously researching and researching, you’ll never get to the point where you realize you have ‘enough’ information to take the plunge. Why? You’re ‘researching’ not because you’re looking for an answer. You’re digging for information and ‘analyzing’ because you’re afraid of making a decision and committing yourself.

The solution to analysis paralysis is simple: lay out all your questions about the decision you’re trying to make. Once you find information that answers the questions, no matter how barely, decide you have ENOUGH information and commit.

Listen, there is no assurance that you’ll succeed. You have to reach a point where you feel you have enough information to make an informed decision. As long as your decision is informed, that’s enough.

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Failure Method #3: Focusing on the destination instead of the journey

Success is a process. It is a journey that involves lots of twists, turns, and even outright detours. If you view success as a fixed destination, it will be too easy for you to get demotivated and burn out. How come? You have a fixed picture of what success should look like. If the results you’re getting don’t square up with that picture, you end up thinking you’re wasting your time. If you continue get results that don’t look like the results you have in your head, you end up giving up. That’s the worst thing you can do since the only way to lose is to quit. If you don’t give up, you’re still in the game. Clear?

Instead of defining success as the outcome at the end of a process, measure success based on where you are in the process of achieving your goals. For example, if your goal is to make money online by blogging, your measure of success when starting your blog is to successfully get your blog up. This means you allow yourself to feel good when you’ve completed your blog setup and have the look and feel you’re looking for. Next, when you have started writing your blog posts, your measurement of success should be whether the posts you write are high quality materials or not. Once your posts reach your quality standards, your next measurement of success should be on how engaging they are as measured by the comments they get. So on and so forth. Eventually, your measure of success would be how much money your blog makes. 

Now, if you were to start the process by immediately measuring your blog’s success based on income when you’re still building up your blog, you are setting yourself up for failure. You’ll lose heart and give up quickly. Why? It’s completely unrealistic to expect revenues at this point! 

Make sure your measure of success changes based on where you are in the process. If you focus solely on the ultimate result or goal of your project, you’ll quickly lose your resolve and will find it too tempting to quit. Whether they are trying to lose weight, find someone new, get a new job, switch careers, or make money, using the wrong success metric is one of the most common reasons why people fail.

Keep the three ways to fail above in mind when working on your goals. Make sure your don’t consciously or subconsciously subscribe to these methods. You are always in control of what you choose to think about. Start thinking in a way that leads to success instead of failure and disappointment.

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Les Brown is the premier motivational speaker and a leading authority on topics such as self-help, motivation, personal development and raising self-esteem. But he is more than those titles and is beyond those words. This is what makes him the greatest motivational speaker on Earth. He has entertained, informed and connected with crowds as large as 80,000 people in one session.

Les Brown has the ability to energize and motivate people from all walks of life. He skillfully weaves life-changing and compelling influential stories that leave a lasting impact. So, when you leave his sessions, you walk out as a different person.

Here are 5 reasons that justify Les Brown’s place on the top as the greatest motivational speaker on Earth.

1. He makes you believe “It’s Possible”

Self mastery is the key to achieve anything. Les Brown believes that if you give proper time and effort to any activity, there is nothing that remains between you and your goals. He not only believes in this mantra, but also makes you believe them as well. He is truly contagious when it comes to making people change their mind and making them embrace new possibilities. He states if you concentrate on any given task and are determined to develop yourself, you can transform your life.

2. He Leads by Example

He came from nothing and rose above circumstances to achieve success. His own life wasn’t any different than ours. He was born to a low income family living in Miami and was given up for adoption. Later in life, he was considered “Educable Mentally Retarded” in school but he overcame that.

Les Brown never let the comments and titles affect his self-esteem. He learned to reach his potential, all by himself. He also faced defeats when starting his career as a radio personality, but he didn’t give up and eventually received what he deserved.

3. He focuses on Holistic Development

He is one of the very few motivational speakers who not only focuses on self-esteem and self-help but focuses on holistic development. You cannot definitely perform well without good health. Health can’t be denied as a healthy body assures a healthy mind.

What makes him standout from other speakers is his ability to keep the audience involved. He uses humor to engage everyone in the crowd and brings the most out of them in just a single session. He fills you with gratitude and makes you live in the present.

4. He wants you to find your Purpose

Les Brown is an advocate of finding clarity in your life. All his sessions include learning, where he shares his secret to find the true calling in your life. He focuses on finding the purpose before starting something new, because if you know your reasons then there is hardly anything that will stop you from succeeding.

5. He is Fighting Mediocrity and teaches you to do the same

When our dreams are shattered, we often lose hope and stop weaving any sort of dreams again. That is the time when you accept defeat. It is at this time you settle for mediocrity and stop asking for more. From the start of his career as a motivational speaker, Les Brown has been teaching people to stop settling for the mediocrity. He makes you believe that you deserve more than you are settling for and this is why there is no need to be satisfied with less as you deserve more.

Les Brown has struggled through his own life and now works to ensure we do not have to. With so much to offer to his audience and the citizens of the world, not only does he teach us how to enjoy a better life but help others enjoy a better life too.

Les Brown Motivational Speaker Facts:

Full Name: Leslie Calvin “Les” Brown

Born: February 17, 1945

Official Website: http://lesbrown.com

Official YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/LesBrownMotivation

Estimated Yearly Earnings: $4,000,000

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Les brown is one of the most famous, renowned, and powerful motivation speakers on the planet today.

His speeches are used in many motivational videos on you tube, and some, including “you can live your dreams” have become a worldwide phenomenon & he has a passionate loyal following.

Why is Les Brown so great? In one of his (now famous) speeches, Les describes how He was declared “educable mentally retarded” while in grade school. Despite this Les Motivated himself to reach his full potential, this is a key point he references in many motivational speeches he now gives, of course he got past this hurdle and went to to become regarded as one of the greatest motivational speakers in the world. A real life story of someone who has acheived so much when it did not seem possible for him to do so.

Les Brown Motivational Speaker Quotes:

“Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.”

“In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.”

“”If you’re working on you dream, sure they’re gonna be times when you’re gonna want to give up, sure there will be times when life will knock you down and catch you on the blind side, but the challenge is to hold on.  And if you hold on tenaciously, I say the universe is on your side.  If you don’t decide to act on your dream, if you don’t decide to make a decision to live your life, if you don’t decide to step into your fears, if you don’t decide to say yes to your life, it will never work for you. You’ve got to live what’s in life, life is too short and unpredictable.

But what do we say?  ”But there will always be tomorrow.”   Oh, no. There’s no guarantees that you’re gonna show up tomorrow.  Always something there, the reason you can’t move on, the reason why you can’t grow to the next level, why you can’t being to manifest your greatness, why you can’t begin to live life on your terms, that you’re gonna say “it’s not worth it.”  Yes, that’s going to be right there for you, it’s going to be in your face, telling you to go back.  So if you want to do something, if you’ve thought about something you want to do, take it head-on.  Life will never be the same. Live your dream.””

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Following are the 11 reasons that make successful people successful.

1. They Add Value
If you ask the majority of successful humans what element would be of most importance in reaching any level of success – I am sure most would reply “Add Value”
Adding Value means your business or service is benefiting others – The more others benefit from your product or service, the higher you will climb on the ladder of success. Look out for opportunities and ways to add more value in the lives of others. The reason successful people are successful is they think about adding value first, the wealth and success comes after and not before this point.

2. They Sacrifice
Another key point about successful people is that they are ready to make sacrifices for things they really want in life. They look beyond instant gratification and seek the long-term growth and success. If they have to sacrifice for their goals, they aren’t hesitant. Whether it be time, parties, fun with friends and family – when successful people are committed to a end goal they will do whatever it takes, and sacrifice whatever necessary to reach that goal.

3. They Don’t Care For Opinions
Most successful people show less interest in the opinions of others. A saying of Winston Churchill sums it up well, “You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks”.  If you want to be successful, you need to stop caring about what other people think about you or your work and just focus on the end result.
-“Have you ever met a hater doing better than you? Me neither.”

4. They Are Not Attached To Success
There is a famous speech from Chinese sage Chuang Tzu where he speaks about an archer, and how he thinks too much about winning, and not enough about shooting: His “need to win drains him of power”.
There is a very big difference between having a determination to achieve success and being anxious about being successful, being anxious will drain you out of power, creativity and focus. Being determined and present will ensure you have the right answers to the difficult questions. Let go of your attachment to success, and instead focus on creating the best possible product or service. The results will speak for themselves.
When an archer is shooting for nothing, he has all his skill.
If he shoots for a brass buckle, he is already nervous.
If he shoots for a prize of gold, he goes blind or sees two targets —
He is out of his mind!
His skill has not changed. But the prize divides him.
He cares. He thinks more of winning than of shooting–
And the need to win drains him of power.
-Chinese sage Chuang Tzu

5. They Set Goals
If you have ever had the blessing of listening to the work of Tony Robbins (Only the greatest success coach on planet earth) You will always hear him talk about goal setting. His RPM (Rapid Planning Method) is a great way to accelerate your results via goal setting.
A recent study by Dr. Gail Matthews, a psychology professor at Dominican University in California indicates just how important goal setting is. She completed a study on goal-setting with 267 participants. She found that you are 42 percent more likely to achieve your goals just by writing them down!
When you set clear goals, written down with clear objectives and dates, you know what you want. You can then take every step strategically, in the direction that leads to the fulfilment of your goals.

6. They Never Give up
Persistence is a major factor in any successful human being. Everyone is going to experience rejection and “failure” of some degree on their path to success. What separates successful people and the unsuccessful is the strength to keep going through tough times. They don’t take “NO” for an answer. They push harder and harder every time. If you research closely, the top 1% in any field of business, sport or life you will most likely hear a story about how they failed continuously in their early days. This is a very familiar pattern for all human beings – failure.  However, the great difference between success and continued failure is never giving up, remaining persistent despite how bleak the situation appears, believing that one day is going to be your day.

7. They Develop Key Relationships
They invest on relationships that matter, they genuinely care about people, which results in healthy relationships. Relationships are usually ignored by majority of people and are regarded as a distraction. However, extremely successful people prioritise relationships and networking with like-minded people or “mastermind groups”. It supports them not only emotionally, but also in terms of their growth and development.

8. They Understand the Laws (Of the Universe)
Successful people know how the universe works in terms of ground realities, so they make it work in their favor. They make use of energy and open different doors of opportunity in many different areas of life and business. They don’t look for opportunities, they create them. They channel the energy in all the right directions. Understanding the laws is a major key to unlocking your true potential.

9. They have an appetite for Learning
Successful people have a great hunger to learn. If you are passionate about anything in life you will most likely have experienced the great desire to educate yourself fully on the topic. Learning for successful people never stops.

10. They Have a Great Drive and Determination
When you notice successful people, the elite sportsmen or top business men or women competing in any area of life – be it business, a harmless game at home with friends or any type of challenge you will notice they hate losing, they must win all the time, at all costs.
Drive and determination are 2 of the greatest assets a human can have. “An intelligent man is useless if he doesn’t have the will to get off the couch” If you are struggling for determination we strongly recommend the work of Eric Thomas (ET the Hip Hop Preacher)

11. They “Believe”
Theodore Roosevelt once stated “Believe you can and you’re halfway there”. The successful ones believe regardless of their circumstances they WILL reach the top. Regardless of how many times they get knocked down, they will get up every time and every time they will take one more step to the top. When you have a burning belief you will reach the top in the end, you are unstoppable.
That’s not the end; successful people have a lot of healthy habits that work all together in their favor. They continuously strive to reach their destination and when they are there, they don’t stop, they set the bar higher. These successful people additionally are keen to improve their lives. They engage into activities that broaden up vision and world view along with creating a sense of awareness. such as. Conclusively, they are all-rounders in every aspect of their life.

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Eric Thomas, better known as ET, the hip–hop, preacher is popular worldwide for his inspirational speeches that he delivers in his own unique way. It is this uniqueness of his that gets his word across to masses and continues to inspire, motivate and help people achieve success and live their lives the way they want to. Although he continues to inspire everyone in different ways, here are 6 ways that he has inspired us:

If you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you will be successful

Success doesn’t come to people who spend their time idealising or being involved in wishful thinking. People who are truly successful know what they want and then they go for it. Someone who sits around dreaming about what they want without willing to struggle for it and then laments about not being successful needs to understand that what they want will simply not drop into their lap. They need to spend every waking moment aligning their focus and their actions in a manner that will help bring them what they want.

The Grinding & Hard Work Mentality

Many people these days look for shortcuts for what they want. They want to be successful but are just not motivated or inspired enough to work towards it. Anyone who wants to get somewhere needs to have the right attitude and mindset. Only with hard work come the results that one wants. If you are prepared to grind, prepared to do whatever it takes to achieve your goals, you will no doubt become successful. 

Be Phenomenal 

Everyone in this world wants to be successful and to have riches. Can you find someone who doesn’t want something? There might be millions of people in this world who want exactly what you want. What makes you so special is that you will be able to get it when so many others want it? Be phenomenal, do not be ordinary! Dare to be different!

Thank God it is Monday 

Do not dread work and do not dread Mondays. You should look forward to your workweek because this is what will get you to what you want. This is how you will make your dreams come true: by working and not by staying home and sleeping late. You need to set goals and priorities and then understand what is needed to make them come true.

I don’t ever want you to settle for another average day in your life

If you just drift through a day, all your days will be gone before you know it. If you let your days be average, your life will be average as it is these days that make up your life. Aim to make each day phenomenal and you will have a phenomenal life.

I dare you to be great! I challenge you to be great in every single thing you do!

Do not let anything in your life just be. In every venture you undertake, make sure to give it your all. When every project you undertake is great, there is hardly any reason why you will not be successful. Give your best to everything in your life and without doubt, everything you will receive will be great.

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The well-known & long time best selling book by Napoleon Hill is a classic that contains lessons for anyone who wants to find their purpose in life.
If you want to feel like a success or just feel there has to be something better to life than this, you must read this book. For most of us, this is a book that needs to be read, reread and then read some more until the secrets and principles of this book have sunk deep and hit home.
Here, we are going to provide you a summary of these 13 principles for all those who do not have time to read the book but want to benefit from these principles as well as for those who want a recap of the great principles.

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First Principle: Desire

For anyone to be successful, it is crucial that there exist within them the desire to be great or at least better than their current state. Without this desire, there would be no motivation or cause for action. Simple wanting or a wish will not produce results as it is just wishful thinking. What is needed is a deep burning desire for something that will automatically result in actions that will bring results. For true success, desire is necessary as wishes will only result in frustration. Desire focuses on the presence of something or the addition of something, whereas wanting focuses on the lack of something.
Whenever you focus on the lacking part, you attract more lack into your life subconsciously. When you focus on the desire, you are consumed by the feeling of having that thing in your life to the extent that you are already picturing what it would feel like to have it in your life. It is this desire that catapults you into action that brings results. Desire pushes you out of your comfort zone because when you desire something, you will not sit idly without doing everything possible to attain the object of your desire. This creates the attraction and brings into your life everything you desire.

Second Principle: Faith

When a desire stems and attracts emotions that arise from deep within one’s belief, it attracts faith as well. For a desire to come true, you must have faith that it is possible and that it will come true. When you truly have faith in a desire and believe it will come true, it starts manifesting into its physical self. Those who believe they are not worthy of love, even on a subconscious level, often find themselves continuously in the same pattern of relationships that they somehow sabotage even if it may seem that they are the victims in it. This is because of our own deep existing beliefs.
Our beliefs hold so much power that they almost always come true so if you want a desire to become real, believe in it and have faith that it will come true. You have to truly believe that you deserve what you desire and it will be yours soon. It is faith that makes desires come true. If you find it is hard for you to have faith, repeat affirmations which state that the desire will come true. If you keep repeating something, it will start sounding true and soon enough the idea will not sound alien to you.
Monitor your beliefs and when you start identifying a pattern of self-limiting thoughts, pick deliberate affirmations and repeat them in order to counter the limiting beliefs.

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Third Principle: Auto Suggestion

There is a strong reason why we do not believe in our own wishes and even though we want something, we do not believe we deserve it. This is a state of being brainwashed. We have been brainwashed by the society to believe we are unworthy of what we desire and that wanting something is sinful. Deep within us, these beliefs exist which makes it difficult for us to believe we deserve something.
In order to get rid of these beliefs, you need to meditate. Go somewhere quiet, relax your mind and repeat the beliefs you want to plant within you. Focus on your worthiness and having faith. With time, the seeds you plant during your meditative stage using affirmations will transform into beliefs. Additionally, start writing things you desire on small placards or notes and read them several times a day in order to remember what you want and place them firmly in your subconscious mind.

Fourth Principle: Specialised Knowledge

If acquiring knowledge ensured success, professors would be the wealthiest of the lot. However, that is as far from the truth as possible. Just having knowledge doesn’t make one intelligent or even successful. This is proven by the fact that information is available to everyone these days. All the knowledge of the world is just a mere click away and yet few in the world are successful.
This is because it is not acquiring knowledge but using it that makes one successful. The correct use of specialised knowledge can make one successful which is why instead of focusing on gaining knowledge, focus on the knowledge that will make your desires come true and help you achieve success.

Fifth Principle: Imagination

Imagination can prove handy if used for the right purpose instead of just using it for one’s entertainment. Creative imagination is the kind that comes in useful when you want to become successful. In other words, synthetic imagination is caused by the effects around us and creative imagination becomes the cause of the effects around us. When you use creative imagination to visualize and picture the fruits of your desires as a reality, they soon take form and in fact become a reality.

Sixth Principle: Organised Planning

In order to succeed, you need a concrete plan. This plan should be a way to achieve what you desire. Take your time to draft a plan and then write it down. Once you write it down, the chances of it becoming a reality increase, so always make sure that you write down your plans and then proceed to divide them into workable goals.

Seventh Principle: Decision

The type of decision Hill talks about in his book are firm and resolute decisions, instead of the ones that are formed and forgotten about in an instant. People who keep forming and changing their decisions are barely ever able to achieve what they desire. You need to believe strongly in your decisions to the extent that once you have taken a decision, it becomes concrete and must be followed through.
However, this it doesn’t mean a decision cannot be changed. However, a decision that is changed regularly is not much of a decision. Take strong and well thought-out decisions and then see them through to the end.

Eighth Principle: Persistence

Many people fail at their first attempt. They might fail on their hundredth attempt but the simple fact is that the 100th failed attempt proves their dedication and this strength of desire will ensure they succeed at some point in the future. Many people give up on the first attempt, claiming that the challenge is too tough for them and as a result these people barely ever succeed. In order to succeed, there should be an unwavering quality to the desire. In other words, you want it and you will do anything and spend as long as it takes to make this desire a reality.

Ninth Principle: Power of the Master Mind

One of the most important principles, this principle explains that in order to achieve what you desire, you need to align your thought vibrations with similar vibrations which can be achieved by keeping company of likeminded people. By choosing your company wisely, you will be surrounded by the right kind of motivation that will inspire and challenge you. If, instead, you surround yourself with lazy people who tend to slack off, with time you will fall into the same mindset and forego all desires. By surrounding yourself with people who motivate you to reach higher, you will achieve more.

Tenth Principle: Transmutation

This is one of the more controversial points in Hill’s book. He explains that we all have a strong sexual energy within us that we use to charm and attract the people we have an interest in. If we gather this energy and use it through creative imagination, we will be able to sound and seem more charming to people. This charm can help us get what we want by convincing people around us, through whom we may be able to achieve what we desire.

Eleventh Principle: The Subconscious Mind

Oftentimes, we truly want something but are limited by our beliefs and not being able to align vibrations in a manner that will help us make the desire a reality. We can control our subconscious mind by controlling and quieting our conscious mind and instilling the beliefs we want to see reflected in our lives. This is best achieved through meditation because we can truly control and tune into our subconscious. In simple words, our subconscious is the real master mind that decides what will and will not manifest in our lives.

Twelfth Principle: The Brain

According to research, when our creativity spikes, our subconscious mind reaches a state where it can be programmed comparatively easily which is why we need to be involved in creative tasks that help us get into the right state of the mind. When we repeat affirmations in our conscious mind while allowing ourselves to reach this state of mind through creative visualisations or imaginations, the pictures in our conscious mind are perceived as reality by our subconscious mind.
In simple words, when we visualise something, our subconscious mind cannot differentiate between the scene being a figment of our imagination or actual reality.

Final Principle: The Sixth Sense

This is your intuition or gut feeling and it becomes more profound when you start meditating and tuning into your subconscious mind. Your subconscious mind is your connection with the infinite wisdom of the universe. When we tune into our subconscious, which is in turn tuned into the universe, we get answers to our questions that would otherwise have eluded us. These answers may come to us as hunches or gut feelings and this is why they must not be ignored.

The powerful book by Napoleon Hill has become a permanent member of libraries around the world must be read to absorb the wisdom enclosed between the pages. These posts are a mere snapshot of the content and cannot in any way make up for the effect the book has. Everyone should read this book at least once. Get the book now – Here

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Some of the books mentioned below are staples, bibles in every successful persons bookcase.
If you research many of the most successful human beings from past to present, you will soon find an undeniable link between their success, the books they read, and their appetite to learn and motivate themselves.
The more you learn, the more you can serve, the more you can serve, the more you can receive.
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1. “Think & Grow Rich” – Napoleon Hill

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There can be no doubt – No book in the history of the world has been attributed to the success of more human beings than this timeless classic.
More millionaires, billionaires and successful individuals have been created because of the principles in this book than any other.
Think & Grow rich is a MUST READ book for anyone serious about achieving financial or personal success. Think & Grow rich is a complete reference book and step by step guide to creating abundance in all areas of your life, including financially!
Napoleon Hill spend decades analysing the most successful humans on earth, and condenses the 13 most valuable success principles to achieve success, in this one of the best selling books of all time. Most Self Help & financial success books published after this time are just replicas of Napoleon Hills Classic, if you buy one more book in your lifetime – Make it this one.

2. “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” – Stephen Covey

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Stephen R. Covey’s book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, has been a best-seller for 15 years, for the simple reason that it ignores trends and pop psychology for proven principles. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People introduces the concept of “paradigm shift” The book helps you understand that different perspectives exist within the same situation, it makes you realise two people can see exactly the same thing yet have 2 very different perspectives on it. Every chapter is dedicated to one of the 7 proven habits and everyone is sure to bring you that little bit closer to success.

3. “Awaken the Giant within” – Anthony Robbins

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Written by one of the greatest, if not THE greatest motivators and success coaches of all time, Anthony (Tony) Robbins. Awaken the Giant within is a step-by-step guide, teaching you the crucial lessons of self mastery, to help you in discovering your true purpose & shape your destiny.
Anthony Robbins, the nation’s leader in the science of peak performance, shows you his most effective strategies and techniques for mastering your emotions, your body, your relationships, your finances, and your life.
Robbins shows you how unconscious beliefs can control your behaviour, and how to immediately take control and accomplish your greatest of goals.

4.  “Don’t sweat the small stuff” – Richard Carlson

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Don’t Sweat the small stuff was written by Richard Carlson in 1997. It quickly became one of the fastest selling books in history, and spent over 100 weeks on the New York Times best Seller List.
Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff…and It’s All Small Stuff is a book that tells you how to keep from letting the little things in life drive you crazy. Simply written and an easy read, author Richard Carlson reveals ways to calm your mind and live your happiest live, regardless of the circumstances.

Carlson teaches you to learn to put things into perspective & live a less stressful life by making small daily changes. Dr. Carlson gives you strategies to improve your life instantly, including: Living in the present moment, Lowering your tolerance to stress, Living each day as it might be your last. A must read for anyone wanting to improve their relationships, with others and themselves.

5. “The Leader Who Had No Title” – Robin Sharma

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If you like a moving story with powerful self-improvement principles, then you have come to the right place. This book will help you in the workplace as well as in your daily life. You will learn that you don’t need a title to be a leader, and a lot more. Finally, you are going to be far better leader in your workplace as well as in your daily life than you have been before. Written by Robin Sharma, once one of the most sought-after leadership advisers in the world.
In The Leader Who Had No Title, you will learn:

• How to work with and influence people like a superstar, regardless of your position

• A method to recognise and then seize opportunities in times of deep change

• Hard-hitting tactics to become mentally strong and physically tough enough to lead your field

• Real-world ways to defeat stress, build an unbeatable mind-set, unleash energy, and balance your personal life

Regardless of what you do within your organisation and the current circumstances of your life, the single most important fact is that you have the power to show leadership. Wherever you are in your career or life, you should always play to your peak abilities. This book shows you how to claim that staggering power, as well as transform your life—and the world around you—in the process.

6. “The Success Principles” – Jack Canfield

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Jack Canfield has created the perfect self-help book for recognising ambitions and boosting confidence, giving an overall increase in enthusiasm for life on a daily basis. Canfield isn’t sharing anything readers don’t already know or that hasn’t been seen in other self-help books before—and that’s possibly what makes “The Success Principles” so great. He instead provides readers with a new perspective using optimism and success stories from CEOs, celebrities, and everyday people.

By applying the 64 principles that Canfield supplies in his book every day, readers will feel reinvigorated about life with the added bonus of being able to set goals and reach them within a realistic time frame. Well known for his contribution as a co-creator for the “Chicken Soup for the Soul” series, these principles are the ones that Canfield himself has lived and flourished by for the past 30 years. With enough drive and motivation, these principles will help transform any motivated readers life and give them the successful results they’ve been searching for!

7. “The Power of Now” – Eckhart Tolle

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With the help of Eckhart Tolle’s “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment,” readers will be able to successfully focus on the present rather than let worry and anxiety about the future and past consume their minds. Tolle relates to readers with stories of his own crippling anxiety and depression then shows how an epiphany helped change his outlook on life. He uses various spiritual traditions to relate to readers, offering them meditation and relaxation guides to ease their minds.

Throughout the book, he advises using consciousness and recognising their ego to help put themselves in the now and let go of the stresses of tomorrow or yesterday. Featured again and again on the New York Times best-seller list and with a recommendation from Oprah Winfrey, this self-help guide offers handy tips for reducing anxiety and depression while also inspiring a passion for life among readers.

8. “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success” – Deepak Chopra

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Pack this fantastic self-help book in a bag or even put it in a pocket for reading at any time in any place.
Deepak Chopra writes of how success comes from an understanding of basic human nature and how to follow the laws of this nature rather than wasting time dedicating oneself to a project with proper planning and hard work.
In “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success—A Practical Guide to the Fulfilment of Your Dream,” Chopra explains how to apply these laws in one’s personal life to achieve success. Utilising the laws that he outlines in his book will help any motivated individual get in touch with himself and find success in a peaceful, meditative way.


9. “As a Man Thinketh” – James Allen

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This early 1900s literary essay from James Allen offers suggestions to readers about the power of thought and how to become successful by utilising a certain mindset. 
With “As a Man Thinketh,” Allen helped start the self-help movement as well as created a foundation for many self-help writers and motivational speakers. 
For over 100 years, people have referred to Allen’s words for guidance and inspiration with many yielding successful results. It’s a short but worthwhile piece that readers will want to refer to again and again when in need of assistance. Promoting a mind over matter sort of lifestyle, Allen wants readers to focus on remaining positive and using optimism to achieve their goals. It’s a great starting point for those that need a boost to their confidence and want tips for becoming more successful.

10. 

“A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose” – Eckhart Tolle

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With Eckhart Tolle’s useful self-help book, readers will learn to appreciate life and live in the present moment without focusing on material possessions and the stresses associated with them. Tolle isn’t trying to necessarily present readers with new information, but rather he tries to get them to shift their consciousness. 
“A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose” assists readers with recognising their ego and the depression, stress, and anxiety that comes from humans trying to find a meaning to life through unhealthy relationships and material possessions. He then goes on to provide tips for readers to implement his techniques in their personal lives and find a more positive outlook on life. Oprah Winfrey featured this book and hosted a webinar on her website with Tolle, after which millions of copies were sold and yielded positive results for many fans. This book is a great read for those who are looking to make a change and reduce the amount of anxiety and stress in their lives.

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