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4 Personal Development Books That Will Help You Change Your Life for the Better

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By David GreenawayPublished 2 years ago 3 min read
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4 Personal Development Books That Will Help You Change Your Life for the Better
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When choosing a personal development book, don't expect it to give you a direct plan of action for you on how to be happy.

Although it probably could exist. Motivational books, first of all, can provide some guidance, to become in a sense a wise mentor. It is not so important what is written in these books, but what emotions they provoke and what actions they provoke you to.

After all, three or four hours to read one of them is a small payment for the opportunity to receive invaluable advice. Today we have prepared for you 4 real books that will help change your life for the better:

1. Eat that frog - BRIAN TRACY

Start with what you don't like! (Eat That Frog!) Teaches you how to get rid of inhibitory or restrictive factors, all those unpleasant things that you always put off hoping to get rid of.

He is one of the most famous authors of personal development and coaching studies. His successful psychology program has sold over 1,000,000 copies and has been translated into more than 20 languages.

Brian Tracy is one of America's leading authors of personal development and coaching studies. Born in Canada into a poor family, he dropped out of high school and started working very early.

He begins his rise in the business world as a sales agent and ends up being appointed sales director in a company with a capital of 265 million dollars. After the age of 30, he enrolled at the University of Alberta, where he earned a degree in commerce; He then completed his master's degree in administration and management at Columbia Pacific University.

Throughout his career, he has worked in 22 companies in various fields. Since 1981, he has been exhibiting his principles of personal and organizational management at conferences and seminars around the world, and his business consulting and training services are valued by more than 500 corporations.

He has published over 40 books and appeared in approximately 300 video and audio conferences; each year, his audience counts over 250,000 people. He travels and gives lectures more than 100 times a year and conducts business operations in 17 countries.

Brian Tracy is enjoying a happy marriage and has four children.

2. The Antidote by Oliver Burkeman

This kind of happiness has nothing to do with the superficialities of positive thinking - its insistence on wild optimism or the imposition of success as the ultimate goal of any human endeavor.

The negative path to happiness is a different way of relating to reality. It is a path that takes you to a different kind of destination. Or maybe it would make more sense to say that the road itself is the destination?

These realities are hard to put into words, and as the principles of the law of reverse effort show us, the more we strive to do so, the more we stray from our purpose.

3. Accept your fear, but don't let yourself be inhibited by it by Susan Jeffers

I believe in miracles… and the success of the book Accept your fear, but don't be inhibited by it is a miracle for me. When I wrote it, so many publishers rejected it that I almost gave up searching.

After all, who wouldn't have given up if they had received a letter of rejection stating, "Even if Lady Di walked down the street empty-handed and offered this book, still no one would read it?"

To be honest, I even left the manuscript in a drawer and almost forgot about it for a few years. One day, I decided to put it in order - and I found it - as if waiting for me. I started rereading it. I couldn't get over the feeling that this book had an important message to convey.

4. The Four Covenants by Don Miguel Ruiz

In the book The Four Covenants, Don Miguel Ruiz shows us how our limited beliefs appear, which rob us of the joy of living and make us suffer unnecessarily and continuously.

Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, The Four Covenants is a powerful code of conduct that can quickly transform our lives, allowing us to experience personal freedom, true happiness, and true love.

Continuing Castaneda's tradition, Don Miguel Ruiz extracts the essence of Toltec wisdom, clearly and impeccably defining what it means to live as a peace fighter in the modern world.

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