Personal Growth
268 Articles & Excerpts
Are You Wired for Success or Failure?
Magnificent Mind at Any Age: Natural Ways to Unleash Your Brain's Maximum Potential by Daniel G. Amen, M.D. It all starts with your brain: how you think, how you feel, how you interact with others, and how well you succeed in realizing your goals and dreams. When your brain works right, so do you. When it's out of balance, you feel frustrated, or worse.
Believe in Yourself
Winning Nice: How to Succeed in Business and Life Without Waging War by Dawna Stone, Matt Dieter Radio show host and founder of Her Sports + Fitness magazine, Dawna Stone shares her recipe for personal and professional success. A successful executive, entrepreneur, athlete, and public speaker, Dawna Stone credits her incredible success to a simple
First Chakra: Balanced Foundation
True Balance: A Commonsense Guide for Renewing Your Spirit by Sonia Choquette, Ph.D. How can we balance our time and energy when our days are so hectic? How can we find harmony in mind, body, and spirit? In True Balance, renowned intuitive and spiritual healer Sonia Choquette presents a step-by-step workbook for finding balance within
Out of the Fog
A Walk on the Beach: Tales of Wisdom From an Unconventional Woman by Joan Anderson Shortly after arriving on Cape Cod to spend a year by herself, Joan Anderson's chance encounter with a wise, playful, and astonishing woman helped her usher in the transformations and self-discoveries that led to her ongoing renewal.
What Changes? What Doesn't Change?
What You Can Change . . . and What You Can't*: The Complete Guide to Successful Self-Improvement by Martin E. Seligman, Ph.D. In the climate of self-improvement that pervades our culture, there is an overwhelming amount of information about treatments for everything from alcohol abuse to sexual dysfunction. Much of this information is exaggerated if not wholly inaccurate.
The Inner Act
Focusing by Eugene T. Gendlin, Ph.D. Based on groundbreaking research conducted at the University of Chicago, the focusing technique has gained widespread popularity and scholarly acclaim. It consists of six easy-to-master steps that identify and change the way thoughts and emotions
Tattered Hearts, Topsy-Turvy World
Mending Your Heart in a Broken World: Finding Comfort in the Scriptures by Patsy Clairmont Early in our marriage I didn't mind the hopping around. In fact, it felt like an adventure. But after the first fifteen moves, I grew weary of cardboard boxes and broken stuff. Honestly, I've never had a move, no matter how close by, that we didn't lose
Who Are You?
Welcome to Your Crisis: How to Use the Power of Crisis to Create the Life You Want by Laura Day Crisis can be the most authentic version of self-transformation. Points of crisis bring us face-to-face with our deepest doubts and fears, and our most essential aspirations. And this means that our response to change is every bit as important
Ambushed and Assaulted: Coping with the Unexpected
Turn Your Life Around: Break Free from Your Past to a New and Better You by Dr. Tim Clinton What happens when you can't get over the hurt? Those soul-deep wounds can ignite spiritual and emotional devastation, Dr. Clinton warns, unless you stop the downward spiral into despair.
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A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder - How Crammed Closets, Cluttered Offices, and On-the-Fly Planning Make the World a Better Place by Eric Abrahamson, Ph.D., M.Ph., David H. Freedman Ever since Einstein's study of Brownian Motion, scientists have understood that a little disorder can actually make systems more effective. But most people still shun disorder-or suffer guilt over the mess they can't avoid. No longer!
I Will Embrace My Uniqueness
Accept No Mediocre Life: Living Beyond Labels, Libels, and Limitations by David Foster The perfect conditions, perfect timing, perfect skills for achieving excellence will never come. We have to seize today and vow to begin a life-changing, life-affirming journey to reach the awesome possibilities ahead.
Evening Round-Up by William Crosbie Hunter So many people are pleasure mad, they become so deadened by excess of enjoyment and indulgence that ordinary pleasure is uninteresting. They seek unnatural excitement, original methods and unusual activities to appease the appetite.
Something Is Holding You Back
The Flip Side: Break Free of the Behaviors That Hold You Back by Flip Flippen I learned everything I know from my clients. After seeing more than seventeen thousand patients through my practice as a psychotherapist and working with thousands of educators and many of the largest and most successful companies in the world
The Pain-to-Power Principle
Living the Truth: Transform Your Life Through the Power of Insight and Honesty by Keith Ablow, M.D. Based on more than 20 years of clinical experience and highlighting stories from his own practice, Keith Ablow shows how ignoring or burying painful memories and experiences can negatively affect every aspect of our lives, and he presents strategies
What Is Gaslighting?
The Gaslight Effect: How to Spot and Survive the Hidden Manipulation Others Use to Control Your Life by Robin Stern, Ph.D. Gaslighting is an insidious form of emotional abuse and manipulation that is difficult to recognize and even harder to break free from. That's because it plays into one of our worst fears - of being abandoned - and many of our deepest needs
The Long and Winding Road
Leap!: What Will We Do with the Rest of Our Lives? by Sara Davidson In Leap!, Davidson sets out on a passionate quest to learn how to do the coming years well. Drawing on her own experience and that of others, she explores such questions as How does a high-powered person learn to walk down the ladder gracefully?
Authentic Confidence
Why Not You?: Twenty-eight Days to Authentic Confidence by Valorie Burton Whatever your career goals ... Whatever your financial objectives ... Whatever your personal dreams ... You Can Do It! This action-oriented, step-by-step guide helps you build the authentic self-confidence that comes from knowing who you are
As a Matter of Course by Annie Payson Call In climbing a mountain, if we know the path and take it as a matter of course, we are free to enjoy the beauties of the surrounding country. If in the same journey we set a stone in the way and recognize our ability to step over it, we do so at once
A Child of Baseball
Hideki Matsui: Sportsmanship, Modesty, and the Art of the Home Run by Shizuka Ijuin In this unique and meaningful book, Shizuka Ijuin, an award-winning author and a friend of baseball legend Hideki Matsui, profiles the beloved New York Yankee - a world-class athlete who exemplifies a quality that Ijuin believes is central to success
Blueprint for a New Way of Living
The Not So Big Life: Making Room for What Really Matters by Sarah Susanka We are facing an enormous problem in our lives today. It's so big we can hardly see it, and it's right in our face all day, every day. We're all living too big lives, crammed from top to toe with activities, urgencies, and obligations that seem absolute.
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