I have purchased and read (or listened to the audio-book) probably around 30 books on self-improvement (self help) and motivation. I’ve told you the common messages in a previous post. And, I’ve told you what works and what doesn’t. But what if you want to read (or listen to) these yourself? Which ones should you pick? Below are my recommendations.
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Self-help Motivational Reading List
Work – Life Balance
Probably one of the most-asked questions in the workplace is about how to achieve a balance between work and the rest of your life. Almost nobody seems to be able to actually do it any more. Why? I think the problem is not trying to achieve the balance, but it is in the question itself. Maybe if we stopped asking how to achieve the balance between work and life, and started looking at and changing our assumptions, we could figure this out! Continue reading
How to Know More But Read Less
Hear of a lot of good books but don’t have the time to read them? Not into listening to audio books in your car? eBooks not for you? There’s an easy way to get a book’s knowledge into your head. It’s called a book summary.
Easy Ways to Practice Writing
I’ve been wanting to write a book for awhile and trying to figure out how to make time has been difficult. Practice makes perfect, I know, but how can I write my book if I can’t find the time? Finding the time is only one part of the problem – where and what to write are other issues. When do I write and why?
I studied myself and found that if I had an interest, I would write. For example, email at work. I am forced to use email at work and have to write it. However, email-writing is not the same as book-writing. It just isn’t because the style isn’t right. Continue reading
How to Listen to Audio Books While Driving
Because I have a long commute (1+ hours), I use my time in the car to listen to audio books. This allows me to make use of that drive time that would otherwise be wasted in listening to the radio, cursing other drivers, etc. But there are a few things that I have learned that are absolutely essential to getting the most out of any audio book while driving: Continue reading
Setting Goals
I would say that every self-help or motivational book that I have ever read has said one common thing:
You must set goals!
But how? What do goals look like? How should they be written? How many should there be? How do I stick with my goals? Do I just write them and leave them for later? What do I do with them?
The answers are in very few books, but I’ve found them:
“The Four Hour Work Week” by Timothy Ferriss
“Ultimate Power” by Tony Robbins
“Unleash the Giant Within” by Tony Robbins
“Ultimate Goals Program” by Brian Tracy
“The Magic of Thinking Big” by David Schwartz
In order for the information in these books to really work, I had to take bits and pieces from several different books and combine them into one coherent message. I tried it to see if it would work for me, and it does. It can work for you as well. Here are the steps you’ll need: Continue reading
Self-help – What works and what doesn’t?
You’ve seen my list of self-help lessons I have learned from reading lots of books on the subject of personal development, and my self-help book reading lists. But what really works?
Here again is my list of lessons learned from reading self-help and motivational texts, but this time with notation to tell you what works and what doesn’t, and what is supported by scientific evidence, and what just seems to work without science to back it.
Tony Robbins and Jim Rohn: Two of the most effective personal development gurus available.
My List:
A Chronology of Motivational Writers and Speakers
Updated 2-August-2011
This concept map shown here is the linkage and chronology (upper people are older or were born earlier) of motivational and self-help writers and speakers throughout history, based on how they attributed who taught or influenced them. Continue reading
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Lars Lentz
