Mr. Subtle

You only need one book:

50 Self-Help Classics: 50 Inspirational Books to Transform Your Life by Tom Butler-Bowdon

Because 50 of the best inspirational books of all time are condensed into one book.

Gee... let me think about this for a minute... do I read 288 pages (this book) or buy all 50 books and read over 10,000 pages?



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Anjanette Fountain

I like the following books:

1. Who Move My Cheese, Spencer Johnson

2. Rich Dad Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki

3. The Automatic Millionaire, David Bach

There are more that I must read.

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TimJones

Not sure if you'd classify these as personal development books, but they certainly had a profound impact on my professional life:

The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss
Little Gold Book of YES! Attitude by Jeffrey Gitomer (really anything by Gitomer is fantastic, but this one really hit home, for me)
Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi -- called the "How To Win Friends and Influence People for Today" but it goes way beyond that -- best networking book I've ever read (and read again, and again....)

mercurycool

1. It Works by RHJ ( plus one of the reviews in amazon.com by Brad Jensen )
2. Attitude is everything by Jeff Keller
3. Attractor Factor by Joe Vitale
4. Note from a Friend by Tony Robbins


There are more, and I love many of the books other posters are listing in this thread. The book that made me to start online business was Rich Dad Poor Dad. But when I feel wanting to start quick action, those books in the list above get me moving quickly. All time favorites.

jazzfreak11

The Awakening Course by Joe Vitale is great, it really combines a lot of his programs into one, including The Attractor Factor, The Missing Secret, Zero Limits, and a lot of new content also. I'd recommend it.

Of course, I also read the classics like The Science of Getting Rich and Think and Grow Rich.

I haven't read Master Key yet, but have it laying around? Should I read it?

kanenala

Thanks for the info will check out!!

Tam Chancellor

Thank you for this list. I've read three of these books. I hardly ever run into anybody that knows about Nevile Goddard!

I'll add some more less known but powerful books:

This Thing Called You - Ernest Holmes
This Thing Called Life - Ernest Holmes
Science of Mind - Ernest Holmes
Your Faith is Your Fortune - Neville Goddard
Make Your Life Worthwhile - Emmet Fox
The Seven Day Mental Diet- How to Change Your Life in a Week - Emmet Fox
The Mental Equivalent - Emmet Fox

Robert Boduch

My pleasure, Pink!

There's something about Neville's work that really resonates with me. His greatest foundational principle, in my opinion is to think "from" your goal rather than "of" it. It's "positioning" in essence and it's the key to getting your desires across to the subconscious mind.

Another classic from Neville Goddard is "The Law and The Promise". I'm sure you've read that one too, Pink. If not, be sure to add it to your reading list. Good stuff!

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superassassin

For me hands down, Anthony Robbins. Not a book to recommend but an audio program (sometimes it's nice to take a break from books once in a while). I like his stuff because I find that he takes the best of the best of all the personal development books/courses and puts it into one nice package. The two course I like are:

Get the Edge (10 day program, a precursor to the PPII program below)
Personal Power II (This is a 30 day audio program)

And he truly is genuine, which I like. I attended one of his seminars and he said to all 3,000-ish people there how he didn't even care if you pirated his stuff (it didn't hurt him one iota financially) as long as it was making improvements to you and your life that's what mattered ... not that I'm recommending you do that of course.

MR2nice

For me, it was Your Forever by Tuesday Lobsang Rampa

actionplanbiz

4 hour work week by tim farris is great!

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Thinking body dancing mind. tao for life, business, and sports = Perfect!

msdobe

My favorites are:

Think and Grow Rich
The Magic of Believing
One Minute Millionaire
The Attractor Factor
The Secret
TNT: The Power Within You
The Magic of Getting What You Want
The Magic of Getting Thinking Big

Jenny

garryism

Thanks for sharing all of your lists! There are quite a number of books that I have noted and will definitely do my best to pick them up for a good read!

BTW, have any of you read The Millionaire Course by Marc Allen?

That is the very first book that introduced me to Personal Development and the Law of Attraction. It actually helped me change the way I thought!

From there, I moved on to others like Think and Grow Rich, Science of Getting Rich, Power of the Subconscious Mind, Awaken the Giant Within, etc.

NijThinkIt

All Anthony Robbins
All Wayne Dyer
All Deepak Chopra - especially Quantum Healing
The 4 Hour Work Week - Tim Ferriss
Rich Dad Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki
The Attractor Factor - Joe Vitale
The Magic Of Thinking Big - David J Scwhartz
Think Big and Kick Ass Like Donald Trump
All Marketers Are Liars - Seth Godin
The Soul Of Money - Lynne Trist
Business Laid Bare - Richard Branson
The Real Deal - James Caan
The Google Story
You Can Do It - Duncan Bannatyne
Think and Grow Rich - Napolean Hill

ton and tons and tons more, could go on for hours!

Mark McClure

Awareness - Anthony De Mello

The Path of Least Resistance - Robert Fritz

Mastery - George Leonard

Building The Happiness Centred Business - Paddi Lund

Maximum Achievement - Brian Tracy

The 15 Second Principle - Al Secunda

dynamicwealth

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theinfomaven

Mind OS
Mature Masculine Power
KWML
The Omega Male
The Secret Psychology of How We Fall In Love

all by Dr. Paul Dobransky.

You can't beat 30,000 hours of psychology research.....

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mayapearl

Hi there,
this book by Catherine Ponder started me on my journey, unless you release the old garbage that has been hindering you it is very hard to prosper.
I have a bookshelf full of self help books, I find that some of them get re-read more than others.

The power of now, Eckhart Tolle
The success principles, Jack Canfield
The seven habits of highly effective people, S. Covey
Your sacred self, Wayne W Dyer
The art of war, Sun Zi
The science of success Wallace D Wattles

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mayapearl

I haven't heard of Marc Allen's The millionaire Course, but i will check it out.
Thanks for sharing
Maya

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JohnB23

Some that I have found useful...

-Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charlie Munger (Warren Buffett's partner). One of the top 10 books I've ever read in any subject.

A lot of people here like Robert Cialdini's book, Influence. One of the anecdote's in Poor Charlie's Almanack is that he gave Cialdini a share of berkshire hathaway (valued at $100 k) as a thank you for his book Influence. He found it that useful. Cialdini's models filled in some of the holes in Mungers system.

Munger also has a great reading list at the end, you'll be considered quite worldly if you go through them...

Guns, Germs and Steel
Wealth and Poverty of Nations
How the Scots Invented the Modern World (interesting book)
Cialdini's Influence.
and others.

-Anything by Jim Rogers. Great economic commentator. Probably the clearest and simplist explanation that you'll hear of whats going on in the world.

-Anything by Jay Abraham. Esp his program, "How to get from where you are to where you want to be"

Also a great political book I've read recently, by Mark Levin, "Liberty and Tyranny". Best book I've read that sums up where we are now as a country.

Rich Lowe

Practicing The Power Of Now by Eckhart Tolle

Positioning by Al Reiss and Jack Trout

Two quality books

Rich

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Who Moved My Cheese: Spencer Johnson

Who Moved My Cheese offers new insight each time I read. You find different perspectives and learn to use critical thinking and apply the teachings in different situtaions.

johndedwards

I love anything written by Dr John Demartini and of course William Wattles

birdfood

I'm reading "A Happy Pocket Full of Money" right now. It is very heavy in some areas but great stuff.

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roosterfeather

I 've read Napoleon Hill's and Carnegie's books, yes great books! I might add How To Stop Worrying and Start Living by Carnegie too.

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Dean Martin

I'll second those two... I've actually gotten to work with Robert on a couple web projects over the past year or so. Smart guy...

lamberw

OK, I haven't really considered the order, but here are some great ones...

* Stephen R Covey - The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
* Tony Robbins - Unlimited Power
* Christopher Howard - Instant Wealth
* Christopher Howard - Turning Passions Into Profits
* Napoleon Hill - Think and Grow Rich
* T. Harv Eker - Secrets of the Millionaire Mind
* Dale Carnegie - How To Win Friends and Influence People
* Robert Cialdini - Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
* Sam Walton - Made In America
* Michael Gerber - The Emyth Revisited
* Michael Gerber - Awakening The Entrepreneur Within
* Zig Ziglar - See You At The Top
* Robert Kiyosaki - Rich Dad Poor Dad
* Robert Kiyosaki - Rich Dad Poor Dad: The Cashflow Quadrant
* Robert Kiyosaki - Rich Dad's Guide To Investing
* Wayne Dyer - You'll See It When You Believe It
* Michael Masterson - Ready Fire Aim
* Stephen R Covey - Principle Centered Leadership
* Tim Ferris - The Four Hour Work Week
* Susan Jeffers - Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway
* Roger Hamilton - Your Life Your Legacy

Wow, looking back at that lot... that's a pretty amazing list!

USGTMauthor

I second the Science of Getting Rich. I turned someone on to it and they claim their friend really got rich.

I am reading The Path of Least Resistance by Robert Fritz and it is very good. It talks a lot about understanding true reality. Also, the Secret to Money is Having Some by Stuart Wilde, How to Get Rich by Felix Dennis and everything by Jiddu Krishnamurti, most of which is free on the net.

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Adam Scott

Here is the definitive guide to the best books in wealth creation:

1. Goals! by Brian Tracy - a complete course on goal setting and goal achievement
2. The Richest Man in Babylon - the foundation of money management
3. Rich Dad, Poor Dad - any book on self help and wealth creation that does not include this book is immediately forfeit
4. The 4 Hour Work Week - expand your mind to what's possible in wealth creation
5. Crush It! - the audio version is incredible! If there was one audio book I was forced to listen to again and again, it would be Crush It!
6. Maximum Achievement - also by Brian Tracy. If all of the convential wisdom of self help was condensed to one book, Maximum Achievement would be the result.
7. A New Earth - non-judgement, non-attachment, non-resistance. A wonderful guide to finding peace.
8. Anything by Pema Chodron - a Bhuddist nun. If you love Echart, Pema is a great extension of his voice.
9. The Psychology of Influence - get your message across and move people to take action!
10. The Well Fed Writer - don't think a career in writing copy is possible? You'll believe it after reading this funny insightful book.

JohnB23

One of the best courses I've ever heard about wealth creation was Jay Abraham's "Protege Mentor Training Course" from 1990.

He did a total of 6 courses from the fall of 89 to the spring of 1990. It comes with 48 tapes (or audio files). It's packed with information. Probably more information than from any other course I've heard. He also has Jim Cecil, Bob Morrison and Kendrick Cleveland. They cover sales, marketing, persuasion, confidence.

If you listened to the whole thing from start to finish, it's almost impossible not to succeed or make money. I think one of the problems with modern books, or courses (after say, 1997 or 2000) is that people want short answers, and they want these "quick fixes". Peoples attention spans were different and longer in 1990. I think you absorb more information and it processes deeper if you read a long book or course, vs a short one. 5 quick courses are not the same as one long one.

For fans of Jay, he tells his life story in the course. A lot of great stories. It shows where he got his knowledge from. It's an accumulate of many, many, many deals. Don't skip over those many, many deals.

Darren Hodgson

I love this thread. I've been into personal development since I was about 19. Below are the books that have had the largest effect on my life. Tony Robbins stuff being the biggest. Seen him live. Love him

mans search for meaning
as a man thinketh
awaiken the giant within
unlimited power
one minute millionaire
the luck factor
the success principles
rich dad poor dad

keep.livin

I don't think they are worthless. some people are not in the same place as you or me or trump. very few people in the world have been taught how to succeed.
in fact, most people in the 'civilized' western world have this syndrome called 'low self-esteem'. this syndrome is a byproduct of our capitalist society and division of social classes. it is encouraged by big business, and our education system. go to school, get a degree, get a job, retire when your life is spent and used, then live off of the generosity of your children, if your lucky. these books teach the things people didn't know they didn't know. and at a pace that they can handle.

one critical book for our A.D.D. friends out there (if it hasn't been mentioned already):

The Power of Focus jack canfield, et al

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coolice

I'm not really into reading but I'll check those out. Video tutorials and guides are the way to go in my opinion.

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Bryan Douglas

Great Thread! Napoleon Hill by far #1

BenBrandes

The Alchemist is a good one. I also like Buy-ology by Martin Lindstrom

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Will Edwards

Here's my top 3 ...

* How to Find Your Real Self by Mildred Mann

* The 7 Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra

* The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey

Actually, I wrote an article about why they are my top three here ...

Top Three Books for Personal Development

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Here's my list..


-How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
-The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
-Awaken the Giant Within by Anthony Robbins
-Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

--Others--
-The Game by Neil Straus (& The Rules of the Game)
-Influence by Robert B. Cialdini

JohnB23

He's not really a personal development author, but Jim Rogers (financial author, commentor) is excellent.

-He explains things in clear, simple language. He has two main books, investment biker and adventure capitalist. About his trips around the world on a motorcycle. They're part travelogue, part lesson on global finance and investing. He saw a lot of these current problems in the US years ago. Investment Biker came out in 92 I think, and he was talking about a US collapse back then.

-And there's a bunch of his videos on youtube, good short synopsis of whats going on.

Arinal

Yes, 7 habits is a good book All about work-life balance. Speaking of which, came across a cool life balance test

Adam Curry

Law of success in 16 lessons - Napolean Hill

This book changed my life!

"All Achievements, All Earned Riches Have Their Beginning in an Idea"
Napolean Hill

hally0301

There are some fantastic personal development books on this list. Just added a few more books to my reading list!!

One of the best books I have read is 'Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do'.

Given that a lot of poeple quit when they are within reach of their goal, perseverance and hanging tough are invaluable qualities to have in pursuit of your goals and dreams.

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Stacey Grewal

I would like to give everyone on this post a free, autographed book, titled Gratitude and Goals.

All that I would ask is if you like it, please give it a positive review.

If you are interested in receiving it, please respond to this post letting me know you are interested and provide a way for me to get in contact with you (email addreess, etc.)

Thank you.

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Winlin

7 Habits of Highly Effecive Peolpe has shaped the past 15 yrs of my life.

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Ster35

1. How to win friends and influence people-Dale Carnegie
2. The power of your subconscious mind-Dr. Joseph Murphy
3. Greatest salesman in the world-Og Mandino
4. The magic of thinking big-David Schwartz
5. Psycho-Cybernetics-Maxwell Maltz
6. Pimpology-Pimpin' Ken
7. Start where you are-Chris Gardner
8. Covert Persuasion-Kevin Hogan and James Speakman
9. 48 Laws of Power-Robert Greene
10. The Bible(especially Psalms)

Carlo Cabrera

I've read many of the books mentioned and they all have added great value to my life. I would like to add Brian Tracy's Maximum Achievement to the list.

kin_lau

When it come to personal development. The key is to get change in our life and experience different results. Maybe you will disagree with me, I found reading less and implement more is a better strategies. If we just keep reading but not taking any action, all the time we read and learn are wasted.

I suggest you find one book and keep reading it until you can master the tips or principle there. Develop your own system and taking action. then reading other books and get inspiration to improve your system.