As Diane Von Furstenberg said, “The most important relationship in life is with yourself because no matter what happens, you will always be with yourself.” Being a good friend to your own self leads to healthy mental health and prolonged happiness. However, just like every other relationship, you should also take good care of the one you have within.
Self-care is never selfish. In fact, it is something that we should normalize. If you won’t take care of yourself, then who will? If you want to improve your being, then self-help books are highly recommended as they promote growth, help you to understand yourself and the world in a more positive way, inspire you to make better choices in life, and go past your limitations. Life isn’t just about work and spending money. We all know there should be more behind, self-fulfillment, motivation and real happiness.
Today, let’s walk through this list of the best life transformation self-help books that will change the way you think. They could be business or spiritual books, that hold valuable tips for life to readers.
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6 Mega Life Transforming Hacks: Maximize Your Life Satisfaction, Experiences, and Results, by Mirza Barlas
Mirza Balas takes on a serious but also an engaging tone of approach to self-help. The author achieved early success by implementing transformational changes in world-leading organizations. When this success did not result in the accompanying happiness that he had anticipated, Barlas turned to his proven experience in transformational change to personally develop innovative capacities for happiness. Along the way, he unexpectedly learned that while success doesn’t always lead to happiness, as was his case, happiness consistently leads to or enhances success. Drawing on groundbreaking and conclusively proven scientific research and proven facts, often illustrated by fascinating parables of self-evident timeless wisdom.
The book contains 6 strategies that are proven scientifically to help individuals reach success. These hacks are composed of perseverance, expertise, positivity, mindfulness, happiness, and lastly the combination of all hacks plus the judgment. However, if you focus on one hack alone, it won’t work as much as doing all of them. This book tells us the purpose of being truly mindful when dealing with problems, generating calmness to defy barriers, and how to deal with negativity.
The Flow Method: 40 Days to Total Life Transformation, by Tara Meyer-Robson
With the “Flow Method”, you will be relieved and live a life full of possibilities, without obstacles, by learning to readjust your mind, body, and life. You can fine-tune and personalize the process of designing and living the life you want. This book suggests a timeline look approach to quickly put the most important aspects of your life on the right track.
Change Your Mindset, Change Your Life, by Garrain Jones
With this book, the author Garrain Jones shares his philosophy wherein you can only change the way you live if you change the way you think. His life-changing story will inspire you into being conscious of your true self and accept what makes you “you”. This book is good, especially for those who are looking for the ways to love themselves. Once you love yourself, it will allow you to live with a greater understanding of others too.
If you’re looking for a book that promotes positivity, building up self-esteem, and instigates pride in embracing oneself, then this book will surely help you.
A New Way of Life, by Leah Brathwaite
Sometimes simple positivity in your life could be enough to fuel the change within. This book is helps to shift your mindset into a new one.
The author shares her own journey of self-discovery in this book and guides the reader through 8 transformative steps that led her from living a lie to a life of purpose. The way Leah explains each lesson is good for mind and body.
Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill, by Matthieu Ricard
How can we place wealth, fitness and work success into a true and lasting wellness? Drawing ideas from from fiction, philosophy, Buddhism, science, and personal experiences, the author weaves an inspiring and forward-thinking account of how we can begin to rethink our realities in a modern world. This is a collection of insightful lessons and exercises of finding what happiness really means.
Live Your Best Life: How to Go From Surviving to Thriving After Abuse, by Selene Bartolo
Selene Bartolo bravely narrates her experience of traumatic abuse that started when she was only 3, which continued all the way to adulthood. This book also includes how she fought past through the trauma, and is now living her best life. We highly recommend this book particularly for victims of any kind of abuse. This book will help you heal and love yourself back in the process.
Selena wrote this book to spread awareness and knowledge on how to break free from traumatic experiences. It also includes tips on how to get away from an unhealthy relationship, and helps you to distinguish emotional abuse from love.
Unstoppable Self Confidence, by Andrew Leedham
If you’re looking for something more straight-forward, then this book is definitely for you. Andrew Leedham tells you that there’s no problem with you, and you already have what it takes to live the life you always wanted. You only have to discard all the negative mindset that you have to reach your full potential. This book will help you eradicate that negative voice in your head… the voice that tells you that you will never be good enough.
You are not condemned to live a life you are not happy about. Read this guide to learn more about self-development, and how to use it as a weapon in becoming the best version of yourself.
Embracing the Awkward, by Joshua Rodriguez
Teenage years can be a really confusing season for everyone. This is where you reach that point of your life where you make your own identity, and relationship with friends are deemed necessary and a priority. This guide provides step by step techniques for sorting things out, and giving answers to questions that teenagers usually ask. The author has great insight in this field, he clearly understands the language of youngsters.
This book helps teenagers boost their self-confidence, and come out of their shells by giving them suggestions on how to engage in social interactions with peers their age.
Think and Grow Rich, by Napoleon Hill
Never underestimate the psychological influence of having a proper mindset for the development of both yourself and your economic status. This self-help classic was published in 1937, and one of the universally recognized self-development masterpieces. However, this book isn’t really about how to increase your income and become rich physically. It is rather the philosophy of Napoleon Hill that will help you throughout your professional career to achieve your goals and attract success that results in wealth. As for Napoleon, there are just 13 principles that you need to focus on to achieve your true success.
The Four Agreements, by Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements reveal the beliefs that limit us from the happiness we could have attained, instead it gives us unwanted sufferings. This book is derived from the insights of ancient Toltec culture that tells us that we can change our lives with powerful guidelines that can lead us into a newfound love, freedom, and happiness.
It also states that what a person does is based upon the “agreements” or deals that they made with themselves, to life, and God. Even if this book is based on the wisdom of the past, it still remains relevant until today’s contemporary standards.
Heart Dreamer, by Cheryl Melody Baskin
Heart Dreamer vibrates love, inspiration, and support that includes the life experiences and wisdom of Cheryl Melody Baskin. What’s great about this book is that it is for everyone regardless of age, gender, religion, or race. It encourages the reader to reconnect with their forgotten dreams, and be a dreamer once again. The author opens up the struggles and weaknesses that she experienced throughout her lifetime and tells us that we are not alone about the things we negatively think about.
Baskin completed the book with plenty of self-discovery and self-healing activities that are enjoyable and relatively easy.
Conclusion
Now that you’ve gone through our list, we will leave it in your hands to pick a book that you think fits you best. Asking for help is great, but having an alone time with yourself as you figure things out on your own is even more impressive!
These best life transformation self-help books will definitely transform the way you think about yourself, and about life itself. Hopefully, one of the books listed above can help you focus on what truly matters, and push you out of your comfort zone.