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Now, Discover Your Strengths
Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton
Free Press, 2001
How do you want to spend the rest of your life?
This a good book if you want to rethink what you are doing with your life. Stephen Covey integrates some of this kind of thinking in the Eight Habits.
Share this with your kids in high school, and definitely before they head off to college.
Dave
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The Last Lecture
Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow
Hyperion, 2008
Man what a guy!
I saw the video, the tv special and now I have the book. What an amazing guy and message!
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Collins Business Essentials)
Robert B. Cialdini
Collins Business, 2007
Review of the book Influence
Excellent book for those wanting to learn teh secrets of advertising and how to influence people's decisions.
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PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives
William Morrow, 2005
Perfect??!!
What do you get someone that has everything and can get anything? This book. I got it for my sister who buys whatever she wants (within reason of course) and so when she got this book for xmas last year, she couldnt put it down. This year I am following it up with the ...
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The 48 Laws of Power
Robert Greene
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2000
Good prison reading
I got this book for my boyfriend in prison. At first they confiscated it as contraband then returned it to him. He loved the book.
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You Can Heal Your Life (Gift Edition)
Louise Hay
Hay House, 1999
Love this Book, Great Affirmations
Louise Hays books are very positive and uplifting. I love the affirmations in this book. I do believe that the mind's beliefs can manifest in the body. Whether or not it manifests from these certain beliefs into these certain parts of the body I am not sure. In any ...
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Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny
Suze Orman
Spiegel & Grau, 2007
New Possibilities!
I never imagined in a million years I would pick up a book on personal
finance. I had an idea that investments and numbers were just too hard,
something I'd never understand. Reading Suze Orman's "Women & Money"
turned that notion on its head. Her warm, funny and ...
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Expect Miracles
Joe Vitale
Burman Books, Inc., 2008
Yes, Miracles, once understood are easy, and Oh so sweet
Why is it that sometimes life seems unbearable? Why do we fail to feel fulfilled or even happy most of the time? These answers are found by simply living a life full of miracles. And how do we get there? It's not hard, not impossible and certainly not something ...
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey
Free Press, 2004
An Exceptional Book
In browsing my book shelf I came upon and then found myself rereading this incredibly simple yet profound book. The principles and ideas Stephen writes about are truly ways to discover how to live your life as the person you want to be. I especially found the section ...
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Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
David Allen
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002
Great Book
GTD is a great book. I've read it cover to cover. Now, I'm re-reading it slower and implementing many of David Allen's tips. I highly recommend the book for anyone struggling to keep up with their busy lives. This book will pay off for you. Buy it, read it, do it.
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The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter, & Miracles
Bruce H. Lipton
Hay House, 2008
Changing old beliefs
The Biology of Belief reinforced my belief that drugs do nothing but cause problems for the body. Bruce Lipton shows exactly what drugs do to the body which for myself was a vindication of what I believed for the last 20 years. It also gives great hope for the power ...
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This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women
Holt Paperbacks, 2007
A VERY GOOD READ
I bought this for my dad for his birthday a few months ago because I consider him to be a remarkable person as well. He thoroughly loved it and is having my mom now read it. If my dad says it's good than it is so.
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Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
Immaculee Ilibagiza
Hay House, 2007
Left to Hope
As a Franciscan Sister of Christian Charity I look to St. Francis who found the depths of hope in Jesus Christ. Immaculalee also confirms that hope ('...only when the future is certain as a positive reality does it become possible to live the present as well'-On ...
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The Secret Lives of Men and Women: A PostSecret Book
Frank Warren
William Morrow, 2007
Well worth it :)
Fascinating. And scary...the ones you find you relate to. I will be buying the others, that's for sure!
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Money, and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Wealth, Health, and Happiness
Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks
Hay House, 2008
Life Changing!
This book has been great....so far. I'm reading it slow, just taking in 3 or 4 pages a day. The information is foreign to the way I was brought up and I'm trying to change that. I'm learning that it's called pivoting. I am more aware when getting a negative ...
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