Top 10 Motivational Books that can change your life

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one” George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

If you want to change your life, you have start doing things differently. To do so you can look up to some books to bring some changes in your life.

As Buddha once said, “we are what we think” — and positive thinking is an important step in any achievement. So why not follow what inspires some of the most successful people?

Here we list out the best 10 Self-help books that can serve as the best tool to change your life.

1. The Art of Happiness (By Dalai Lama)

The book explores training the human outlook that alters perception. The concepts that the purpose of life is happiness, that happiness is determined more by the state of one’s mind than by one’s external conditions, circumstances, or events — at least once one’s basic survival needs are met and that happiness can be achieved through the systematic training of our hearts and minds.

2. The Greatest Salesman in the World (By Og Mandino)

This book serves as a guide to a philosophy of salesmanship, and success, telling the story of Hafid, a poor camel boy who achieves a life of abundance.

3. Screw It Lets Do It: Lessons in Life (By Richard Branson)

Reading other people story can give us a better perspective of what the journey of change could be. This book will tech you how to give thing a go, and sort out the self-limiting beliefs that can stop us stepping up.

4. The Four Agreements (By Don Miguel Ruiz)

In this book the author reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. The Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love.

5. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (By Malcolm Gladwell)

Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant — in the blink of an eye — that actually aren’t as simple as they seem. The book argues that intuitive judgment is developed by experience, training, and knowledge.

6. The Power of Positive Thinking (By Norman Vincent Peale)

The Power of Positive Thinking proposes the method of “Positive Thinking”. It basically aims at ensuring that the reader achieves a permanent constructive and optimistic attitude through constant positive influence of his conscious thought and consequently achieves a higher satisfaction and quality of life.

7. Don’t sweat the small stuff (By Richard Carlson)

Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff… and it’s all small stuff is a book that shows you how to keep from letting the little things in life drive you crazy. In thoughtful and insightful language, author Richard Carlson reveals ways to calm down in the midst of your incredibly hurried, stress-filled life.

8. How to Win Friends & Influence People (By Dale Carnegie)

This book gives us the instruction in handling people, winning friends, bringing people to your way of thinking, being a great leader, and navigating home life successfully. Carnegie combined age-old truisms with the emerging field of psychology to present a handbook in human relations which was interesting and accessible.

9. Awaken The Giant Within (By Anthony Robbins)

This motivational book is on how to control once thinking and how to achieve the desire in your life. It is about the change that we must bring in our belief system and develop the sense if certainity that we can.

10. The Magic of Thinking Big (By David J Schwartz)

This book is a classic motivational and self-help book, which is similar to another motivational book. This book builds an individual’s confidence, mentality, vision of life and ultimately the ability to think big introspectively and extrospectively. In short, making better decisions and avoiding negative thoughts are benefits of reading this book.

These 10 books would help you change your life. We hope that by reading these books, you will find the same inspiration and motivation to take up the challenge and change your life.

What book has motivated you? What motivational book do you recommend to your friends?

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