Money changes everything. But just like everything else, if you don't control it, then it will most definitely control you. Money is not the root of all evil; the love for money is.

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People presents an "inside-out" approach to effectiveness that is centered on principles and character. "Inside-out" means that the change must start from within, moving through a paradigm shift towards a new level of thinking, feeling, and empowered interdependence reflected through actions.

Happiness is something that everyone aims for. Most of the time, people do everything they can in order to be happy. But true happiness comes from within, not from power, money or fame, but from the person himself.

One cannot be truly happy unless he has set himself to be happy. And one can never be happy without believing he can be.

Everyone wants to live happy and peaceful lives, and this book written by Mridula Argarwal, also author of the 10 Rules of Success, can help you do just that.

Written with an in-depth study of the human mind, this book outlines 10 essential things that you can do and focus on to help make your everyday actions rewarding and satisfying. It gives an overall view of life and how things can make you unhappy, and shows you what you can do to counteract that feeling of discontent. More importantly, this book provides guidelines on how you can live a meaningful and tension-free life.

Most people view success as being at the right place at the right time, or mainly because of luck, or something that has been passed on to them by their ancestors. But in reality, though these may help, success is ultimately the consequence of making the right choices.

The choices that people make can only lead them in either of two directions: closer to or further from the success they are trying to achieve. Success, in whatever form, is dependent on the good choices that one makes, and the avoidance of the bad choices.

There is not much difference between a highly successful individual and a not-so-successful person, except for the choices they decide to make—or not make. With these choices, one takes control of his or her success.

Every single moment of a person's life requires him or her to make a choice, from the simplest to the most complicated. And for one to make good choices, it requires his or her utmost attention, until making good choices becomes a subconscious habit.

If you are looking for a guide to human relationships, this is the simple and wonderful way to discover how we can enhance our joy in other people. If you are looking for a way to manipulate others into doing your bidding, this is not the book for you. The 12 Simple Secrets are outlined with clarity, they are:

17 Essential Qualities Of A Team Player, The
Becoming The Kind Of Person Every Team Wants
By John C. Maxwell
Published By Thomas Nelson Publishers 2002
ISBN: 0785274359
156 pages

A follow-up companion reader to The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork, here is a clear character profile of the ideal Team Player. Maxwell stresses some main qualities of a good team player: intentional, or she is focused on the big picture, relational, focused on others, selfless, willing to take a backseat for the good of the team, and tenacious — works hard to overcome obstacles, no matter what

Building a winning team is a process. Here are guiding laws for any type of organization, group, or family, based on the principle that teamwork is essential in any great human endeavor. Whether you're a leader or a member, these laws will definitely have a positive effect on you, your team, and your life!

Leadership is an art form. To become a good leader, you have to begin working on improving yourself. Filled with enlightening anecdotes that illustrate the qualities of the world's greatest leaders, this must-read for any entrepreneur, manager, or executive will bring valuable lessons to push you in the right direction towards the fulfillment of your leadership roles.

There are many scriptures in the world which have a lot of wisdom to share. Their essential message is the same, though some of us may be drawing boundaries around them. In the fast-changing environment of today, this also is going to change. With all the means of communication at our command, it is now possible to have access to all of them and learn from them.

An effort has been made to bring forward this science of life in the form of 21 Laws of Positive Living. Armed with these laws, we can be a step closer to achieving the ultimate goal, which is “positive living”. We can change the face of humanity by starting with ourselves.

There is nothing we do as humans that does not involve thinking. Our thinking tells us what to believe, what to reject, what is important and unimportant, what is true and false, who are our friends and enemies, what dreams to pursue, who we should marry, how we should raise our kids. The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your thinking.

Having a good memory gives you a lot of advantages. Be it in your workplace, personal life, studies and your every day activities. Having that ability to memorize things and keep important facts in mind will definitely bring you a long way.

In her book “27 Tips to Develop a Super Power Memory,” Kay White introduces 27 proven strategies in improving your ability to store facts in your brain. These strategies are easy and proven ways to help your remember better. White introduces the system of association, imagination and linking of ideas to further enhance your memory.

The book 50 Things That Really Matter tells of the simple pleasures of life--apart from the luxurious, fancy and extravagant possessions-- that gives people inner and deeper fulfillment. This promising gift book is a compilation of fist-person stories of different people with their own unique experiences on the things that really do matter.

Hidden deep inside the core of your life is a huge vault stacked high with the things you have counted as significant: the way you behave, what you think and say, your beliefs, and personal integrity.

In this book "52 Things You Can Do to Raise Your Sefl-Esteem," Jerry Minchinton provides 52 easy ways you can do to start loving yourself more. This book provides tips that can change the way you see yourself and others. Furthermore, this will help you believe that you deserve the good things that life has to offer.

Organization is vital for everyday existence. To allow yourself to fully respond to the opportunities and challenges that bombard life at home and at work, you need to be organized. Without organization, you will be lost. Without organization, chaos will overcome you and you can never be as productive and as efficient as you ought to be.

In order to be organized, one needs to wholly understand the value of organizing. With a motivated mind and soul, goals setting should follow, and tracking plans that will lead to the attainment of your aspirations will come in handy too. As soon as the plan is neatly in place, implementation of the plan should be done immediately and proficiently. Utilizing your resources and maximizing the potentials of such are also among the most important steps towards total organization both at home and at work.

Procrastination is the act of putting off something until a later time, either by not starting a task or by not finishing one you've started. Individuals who procrastinate tend to regard themselves as unproductive and lazy and often feel anxious, ineffectual, guilty, or immobile. Research has shown that procrastinators tend to be people with a low tolerance for frustration – people who give up too easily. They also tend to be perfectionists, who have high needs for autonomy and approval. Moreover, they have a high fear of failure. Consequently, they procrastinate because the tasks or projects before them represent high stakes, which they approach with dread.

If you fit the profile, don’t worry. You’re not a terminal case. We all tend to procrastinate at one point or another. We’re all just human. And because we’re human, we can do something about procrastination. Yes, procrastination can be avoided. Procrastination is but a habit that can be changed over time.

Jeff Davidson, in his book The 60 Second Procrastinator offers tips to get you out of the procrastinating habit. You don’t have to apply them all, or all at once. A few tips might work for you, a few might not. The bottom line is that these tips are here to give you a fighting chance against this enemy. Get ready to battle procrastination away.

After years of conducting interviews and studying people, David Niven translates the conclusion of his research in his book “The 100 Simple Secrets of Happy People.” Niven shares 100 simple pieces of advice on how people can find happiness and stay happy.

The goal of living up to 100 no longer seems impossible. With the advent of advanced medicine and sophisticated technology, reaching three figures is feasible. However, living longer should always aim to entail enjoying life, not just enduring it. It is better to live a happy and fulfilled 50 years than a miserable 100 years.

This book is then about enjoying life, while trying to endure it. Seasoned family doctor Roger Henderson relates his actual medical experiences and researches on how you can change your lifestyle to endure long life and at the same time make the most of your years.

In his book “100 Ways to Live to 100,” Henderson provides tips that are divided into five sections: medical, diet, lifestyle, natural remedies, mind and body. Each section has 20 helpful guides and practical suggestions on how you can improve your health and disposition in life.

This book tackles self-confidence and self-esteem. It discusses how you can develop yourself to be more aware of your behavior, responses and how to be more confident. It also talks about how to know when you are low on confidence and self-esteem and what you should do to remedy it.

There are many examples, exercises and advices given to further evaluate your confidence level and what you should do for your confidence and self-esteem to grow. The book makes you realize that many factors influence who you are today. Furthermore, it helps you transform yourself to be a better person.

The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind – computer programmers, lawyers, MBAs – people whose form of thinking and approach to life is reductive and analytical. But the keys to the kingdom are changing hands. This book describes a seismic shift that is now under way in much of the advanced world, one in which the logical, linear, computer-like capabilities of the Information Age are taking a backseat to the inventive, empathic, big-picture capabilities of the so-called Conceptual Age.

The future belongs to a very different kind of person with an equally different kind of mind – creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers, meaning makers. These people – artists, inventors, designers, storytellers, caregivers, consolers, big picture thinkers – will reap society’s richest rewards and share its greatest joys.

A clinical psychologist by the name of Dr. Steve Harriman has found a way to take life’s blues away with the help of your favorite residents of Bikini Bottom – SpongeBob and friends. Through watching every episode with his niece and being a huge SpongeBob fan himself, he realizes chunks of wisdom in the cartoon characters’ every adventure that will inspire any reader to live life with more zest and hope.

Unravel the ten most important secrets to happiness with a light touch, as SpongeBob Squarepants illustrates points on how to live and become conscious of the lessons to be learned from it. From handling fear, getting along with yourself, to dealing with hard truths, the book puts forward a new perspective that getting a good laugh is not the only benefit you can get from cartoons, but also life’s lessons for any average adult, as much as for kids.

Accelerated Learning for the 21st Century:
The Six-Step Plan To Unlock Your Master-Mind
By Colin Rose and Brian Tracy
Published by Dell Pub Co; March 1998
ISBN: 0440507790
403 Pages

This package is a combination of six cassette tapes along with a workbook and other handouts. Colin Rose is a British expert on accelerated learning techniques and Brian Tracy is a well-known U.S. peak performance coach. According to Rose and Tracy, intelligence is not fixed, it is like a muscle that can be developed, and learning how to learn is the key. The authors cite several examples where corporations have successfully used these techniques to improve their employees learning capacity. For example, one major telephone company cut their training in half with some of the accelerated learning techniques described in this package.

The book is about a family wherein the husband and wife encounter problems relating to their personalities. It tackles the ways and steps to become more confident, to have a better outlook on life and to be a better person. It tackles issues on self-worth and self-confidence; how they affect the person you are and the people around you and the suggestions on how you can be a victor in the confidence tug-of-war.

There are many examples and situations wherein the problems are clearly illustrated and the possible answers and solutions are clearly suggested. This book makes one recognize the folly of one’s behavior; the underlying reasons behind them and how to can correct those follies.

Many people hanker for a happy and successful life, and try different avenues to lead to happiness and success – but far too often fall short of achieving these goals.

A process, however, exists that can be used to change one’s life and achieve what one desires. As promulgated in a popular, innovative and unconventional course called "Creativity and Personal Mastery" that is taught by Dr. Srikumar S. Rao at Columbia Business School, it identifies important points on how one can improve one’s life tremendously through defining personal ethics and goals and working to achieve them.

Being happy is a choice, and so is being positive.

Instead of letting negativity consume them, people from all walks of life can choose to be positive, do positive work, and build a positive planet. They can choose to be encouragers rather than stoppers; to do their best rather than fail to do their best; and to choose to be doers rather than talkers.

It’s a timely reminder to everyone that the achievement of quality, excellence and improved performance stems directly from the ability to encourage and support other people.

imply put, therefore, there’s a real need for the art of encouragement.

The Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is the spiritual leader of millions of Tibetan Buddhists. Born in 1935 as the son of a peasant family in northeastern Tibet, he has been exiled and living in India since the Chinese invaded Tibet in 1950. In 1989 the Dalai Lama won the Nobel Peace prize for his worldwide mission in search of a peaceful solution to the Chinese repression of Tibet. The title "Dalai Lama" means teacher whose wisdom is as vast as the ocean. This book is an excellent overview of some of the main ideas of Buddhism along with the Dalai Lama's advice on a variety of topics. Howard Cutler does a good job of asking penetrating questions and translating the answers.

You've probably heard of all those self-help books that boast of transforming your life. Well, this is one book that teaches you to do that and more. It is riddled with numerous accounts from authors Benjamin and Roz Zander about their separate experiences that set the over-all tone of the book. You will find that in order to effect changes in your work environment, you have to start with pretty simple yet life-altering paradigm shifts within yourself. This book offers 12 Practices that take you through the whole process.

Conversation is an art that everyone has to learn. Being able to converse properly and appropriately is a key factor to a successful life and career. Unfortunately, few people take the time to learn how to be a well-liked and charming conversationalist.

“The Art of Talking to Anyone” provides you with everything you need to become a better conversationalist. Author Rosalie Maggio provides real-life scenarios, sample scripts and simple techniques that will enable you to say the right things all of the time.

Good vs. evil. Yin vs. yang. Positive vs. negative. Opposites thrive everywhere. Even in your own little self, a continuous battle exists. Whichever way you choose to deal with these battles, that choice always defines the attitude that you project. Looking at these objectively, a positive attitude is still undeniably the most valuable asset you can ever choose to treasure. It is the most basic ingredient to every success story in this planet.

This book by Keith Harrell will show you the way towards a life ruled by positive attitude. This book will not only serve as a motivational device but a learning tool as well, that will expose you to fundamental principles leading to self-development and personal growth.

This book clearly states the relationship between a person’s life and experiences as a child and the behavior he or she exhibits when he or she gets older. It discusses how a person needs to have commitment to have a good life.

To better illustrate, the author gave many examples and true to life conversations to explain the situations what these people underwent and the effect it left to their lives. Along with the examples are suggestions on how to deal with reality and how to be able to exude a positive attitude and ultimately, to find peace.

This is a book that shares with readers the secrets to balancing excellence in work with fulfillment in personal life. Its funny, yet no-nonsense approach to the subject of work-life balance, as well as management and corporate relations, and provides readers the kind of insights and answers that will help bring back order in their sometimes hectic lives.

Admittedly, not many of the people you know, which may probably even include you, know how to love, affirm and support oneself. Many struggle with their self-esteem. Many don’t know how to treat themselves with the love and respect they truly deserve.

In this book, Whiteman and Petersen provides step-by-step guide on how you can make friends with yourself— to see how beautiful you are and how God sees and values you. The authors provide helpful strategies for building and maintaining a balanced self-esteem. They outline practical ways on how you can deal with your past by confronting your “villains” and how you can heal and move on after doing so. There are also helpful tips that you can do daily so you can maintain being friends with yourself, and eventually making this as part of your lifestyle.

Every person’s ultimate quest in life is to be happy. But more often than not, people struggle finding contentment, peace and happiness in life. This highly motivational book by Andrew Matthews is written to help both young and old to find the path to bliss.

This book entitled Being Happy is about the daily experiences in life and how you can change your attitude towards these to become happy. This book talks about forgiveness, confidence, success, humor and many more. This teaches you how to deal with the daily problems that you face and how you can address them without spoiling the rest of your day.

More importantly, Being Happy will help you embrace yourself with respect and love that you deserve. This will help you understand yourself better. And eventually helps you live life to the fullest.

We always have an idea in our mind but can’t seem to express it clearly. And if at times we tried, people most often misunderstand us. If we have a clear thought of an idea, we can draw significant words and phrases to paint a cohesive truth and come up with a reasonable conclusive statement.

Learning the correct way of reasoning and developing good logic sense would be the vital key to communicate well with other people. This is so because logic is a science that guides us to think correctly. Logic is also a skill of integrating words from and inspired idea or ideas and the formulation of its delivery is an art. Actually, it is not what we say that is important but it is how we say it.

Have you ever met someone for the very first time and felt an instant connection? Have you ever been presented with an idea or a business concept that you instantly knew would fail? Are there instances when at a glance, you can immediately tell if something would work or not?

Author Malcolm Gladwell urges you to embrace the unconscious hints, decisions and impressions your brain is sending. Through this book, you will realize that first impressions and snap judgments can be educated and controlled — and when used correctly, can even help you in making the right decisions in life.

Have you ever watched a child create a castle in the sand and saw it happily express its satisfaction when its work was completed? Everyone who seeks true happiness in life can learn this sort of lesson from a child. If we fail to find our own happiness in the same manner as that child, we will forever hunger after happiness in vain.

In addition, by virtue of creating happiness in your own life, you tangibly increase the sum of happiness experienced on this earth. And thereby you accomplish more for mankind as a whole than by attempting to bring to reality the most beguiling of utopian theories.

The human mind is so complex that it was believed to be like empty vessels waiting to be filled with facts and figures. But with the advent of modern technology, emotions were found to be just as important. We now understand that we are all different. Our intelligence is not fixed. We can be smarter. For so long we were taught the 3 Rs of Reading, wRiting, and aRithmetic; but however valuable these 3 Rs are, these do not guarantee a smooth adaptation with the complex and fast changing society we live in now.

Learning well is an invaluable asset today. Indeed, everybody has the potential to learn and succeed; but realizing success lies in you. You have to want to improve and give effort in doing so. Your mind is the most important organ, which can help you achieve this. In his book, Boost Your Mind Power Week by Week,
Bill Lucas introduces 52 effective steps to give your mind a good workout and achieve its maximum learning potential. These steps revolve in Bill Lucas’ new formula in achieving your minds greatest potential, the 5Rs: Resourcefulness, Resilience, Remembering, Reflectiveness, and Responsiveness.

Bragging in today's competitive world is a necessity and a matter of choice to promote one's self. Downplaying your own success could allow others to grab credit for your achievements. If done with grace and style, bragging successfully while artfully communicates your talents and accomplishments without you sounding like a pompous ass. A person can gain connections, motivation, and skills that can lead to plum assignments, raises and promotions, and stronger professional relationships. By learning this book's guiding principles, tips, and best practices, you can toot your own horn in a manner that is sincere, comfortable, without antagonizing anyone.

Almost everyone needs to be a motivator in one way or another. You may be a parent who wants to motivate your children to do better in school, or a boss who wants to encourage employees to improve productivity or quality of work. You may be a coach, a teacher, a manager, a leader, or simply a friend who wants to help someone lose weight, get over a personal slump or other crisis.

But have you ever wondered why you sometimes can't seem to get through to the people you want to motivate? Do you wonder why some people fail and others succeed in bringing out the best in others? If you want to improve your motivational skills, “Bringing Out The Best In Others” by Alan Loy McGinnis is the book for you. In this book, McGinnis shares the 12 principles for motivating people that you can apply in your family, work, and other areas of life.

Work can often be one of the most stressful situations in our lives. We have to work with people that we don't necessarily have anything in common with and perform boring and repetitive tasks. In the United States and other parts of the world, you are supposed to look busy at all times. This can add to the stress since you feel like you are being watched constantly. Calm at Work offers over 100 practical exercises and techniques to help you remain calm at work. Here are the main ideas offered in both Calm at Work, along with Wilson's condensed Little Book of Calm at Work.

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The letters in each quadrant represent the Employee, Self-Employed, Business Owner, and Investor. Discover how to move from the left side to the B and I Quadrants, where you work less, earn more, pay less taxes and have more free time to spend with your loved ones!

A guide to your journey of transformation, Change Your Life in 30 Days revolves around the principles. The underlying principle behind change is that for change to happen, a person has to be true to himself. The second principle which the author emphasizes is that a person should break the cycle of fear that holds the person back for change to take place. In this book, she outlines the steps to making those changes one day at a time. For people who want to make some major changes in their lives or who want to start over, each day is a journey that takes the reader through several questions to answer, create intention statements, define life goals and outline the steps needed to reach those goals. Within 30 days, a person can create a new fresh start in life.

When you read this book, you will unlock your full potential for success and achievement. Brian Tracy shares with you time-tested techniques that you can use to take complete control over your life. Here you will learn to program and reprogram your self-concept so that you will be able to positively and effectively empower yourself.

This book will take you to a journey of self-assessment towards positive change. Espousing the principle that you become what you think about most of the time, the author encourages you to take a closer look at your inner-self so you can seek improvement and channel the changes to achieve a more satisfying and meaningful life. Truly, there are no limits to what you can achieve. When you commit yourself to excellence and never give up, you will achieve the desires of your heart.

What is your heart’s deepest desire? What is your soul’s most fervent wish? Recognize and use this as a potent catalyst for major dramatic changes in your life.

“The Circle” by Laura Day introduces you to the amazing unity of your thoughts, feelings and behavior with the world and your surroundings. This unity allows you to utilize the power of your own resources to make that one wish come true.

How well you see yourself greatly determines how well you will succeed in life. Whether you like it or not, your confidence is a great part of your success. That’s why it is important that you change the way you think about yourself.

In his book Confidence: How to Succeed at Being Yourself, McGinnis applied his various hands-on experience in counseling into his attempt to help people change the way they see themselves, start believing in their own unique capacities, and ultimately achieve their goals in life.

Do you know anyone who always needs to be right or always implies that you are wrong or inadequate whenever you don't share points of view? How about someone who always needs to tell you how you should think and who you should be friends with? These are just some of the character traits of people who control others. Unfortunately, sometimes without realizing it, many individuals who try to control others are destroying the relationships they have.

Patricia Evans helps you uncover the behavior behind the controller and the victim. Her book Controlling People attempts to find answers behind the force that drives people to control others and narrates how this pattern of control can be broken.

“Live your life like a work of art.”

Business is actually a very creative form of art. It integrates creativity and imagination (business plans and ideas) people skills, organizational skills, and requires a focus and drive that many artists possess. This book guides you to reach down to your core Essence — your inner creative resource that can fuel your personal and professional life.

There are many ways to kill a cat. The same applies when trying to solve a problem. One may apply a structured approach or devise a creative way of doing it. The key is being able to identify the real problem and come up with a problem statement. What follows is the approach on how to come up with alternatives which will serve as bases for decision-making.

The ability to make informed decisions about how best to use money helps people and their families build a more stable financial future for themselves. The right information, along with choosing to budget, save and use credit wisely, can help people gain control of their finances.

Author Dave Barry combines vital information and distinctive humor to bring about a book that can teach anyone how to manage his or her personal finances easily.

What is success? Is it graduating at the top of your class? Is it being part of the top management of your company? Is it bringing in at least six figures a month? Is it being able to get what you want, when you want it?

Dwight Bain gives his readers a more in-depth view of the three-part journey to success, constantly reminding his readers that ANYONE can be successful. Bain explains that you can start on that road at any point in your life, no matter who you are and what you've been through.

Everyone encounters difficult situations where we face the need to speak up. It may be to ask for a raise, demand better treatment, deliver bad news, or simply communicate how we feel about a situation. More often than not, however, we choose not to-- just to avoid confrontation and conflict, hurting others or ourselves, and worsening the situation.

When we do find the courage to speak up and deal with a situation, we do it indirectly, fumblingly or aggressively. As a result, either we fail to get our point across, or we alienate the other person. In the process, many of us find ourselves stuck in uncomfortable, oppressive and unhealthy situations. Difficult Conversations by Anne Dickson offers a new approach to dealing with tricky situations directly and effectively by harnessing our personal power.

What do you truly want out of life? This is a difficult question, particularly because you are used to other people telling you what you should be or do. It is important, however, that you discover your own “true north” or that navigational star that you can look to for safe and reliable guidance.

Motivational speaker and corporate trainer Anne Bruce provides you with a four-week formula that can help you unlock your personal potential immediately. After the four-week learning period, you should be able to learn how to activate your inner compass and define your life’s direction. You should also be able to make critical life choices, focus on your self-development, and pinpoint your emotional and intellectual strengths.