See You At The Top: 25th Anniversary Edition by Zig Ziglar

“It is your attitude, not aptitude, that will determine your altitude.” Zig Ziglar.

This is one of Zig’s greatest seminars that has been captured live and now presented as an audio master piece. If you are looking to shake up your life and gain some traction for success this is a great place to start. Zig shares so much gold it is sometimes hard to keep up. I can tell you one thing, you will finish this audio feeling like you can accomplish anything in life.

A master of story telling, Zig communicates his messages with great simplicity and clarity always using humour to motivate and inspire us to achieve greatness. This guy is the king of story telling and with each story there is a powerful message that will assist us all in getting to the top.

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Soul Over Matter: Ancient and Modern Wisdom and Practical Techniques to Create Unlimited Abundance by Dr. & Master Zhi Gang Sha and Adam Markel

I open my heart to the deep well of happiness inside me.

I release the illusions of my smaller self and connect with my bigger self instead.

I realise I can be more and achieve more.

I see the Buddha in me and in others.

The more I read the more I discover how popular the East meeting the West is becoming. This book is one of them. Soul Over Matter delves into Eastern techniques and principles that can help us heal our soul and in doing so allow us to create more abundance in business and in life.

I fell immediately in love with many of the authors thoughts. The principles were also great however some are very new to me. I felt at first that they were strange and this is because they are not practices that I have grown up with or experienced. Techniques such as chanting and tracing for example.

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Like a Virgin: Secrets They Won’t Teach You at Business School

“The brave may not live for ever but the cautious may not live at all.” Richard Branson

When I think of success I think of Richard Branson. A highly successful entrepreneur who has both successfully and unsuccessfully created over 400 businesses often entering into industries that many would avoid.

He is a worldwide celebrity known for living life to the fullest with a tendency for adventure, an appreciation for having fun, and a passion for all that he does, sometimes controversially so.

This I like a business 101 course with Richard Branson as he shares his own business and life’s lessons, learning’s and principles, with over 40 years experience, there is certainly a lot to be taken from it.

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Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain Your Brain to Boost Your Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin, & Endorphin Levels by Loretta Breuning

“You may say you’re against status, but if you filled a room with people who said they were anti-status, a hierarchy would soon form based on how anti-status they are.”Loretta Breuning

If it feels good, it has side effects.This was a really cool read! Enjoyable & insightful into what triggers my own personal happiness and even unhappiness.

I don’t often think about what makes me happy and probably like many of us take things in life for granted. I do things also that Loretta would describe as my happy habits. Pathways I have learnt from experience that have made me feel good. Good and bad ones included.

When I am down, unhappy, I am aware. I reflect heavily in my down times. I feel pain; I place too much pressure on myself, and judge myself. Life is not and cannot always be total bliss. We are not designed to always be happy.

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Success Is for You: Using Heart-Centered Power Principles for Lasting Abundance and Fulfillment

“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.” Bruce Lee

This is a read that I really didn’t expect. It is a different take and approach on success from what you may expect and certainly worth a read.

Dr. David R. Hawkins is a renowned physician, lecturer and researcher of consciousness, which is the state of being aware and responsive to one’s surroundings. If we can only be more aware of ourselves internally and how we respond to external happenings may then we attain more success.

Dr. Hawkins concepts seem very much common sense, including business and psychological behaviours that help propel success, however along the journey to success we loose touch with them. The idea is to gain consciousness and become aware that will then assist us in discovering true success.

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The Tao of Seneca: Volume 1

“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.” Seneca

Philosophy has the power to change our lives. Past leaders of philosophy share so much timeless wisdom that can help shift our perspectives on life and all that exists within and in doing so change the way we interact with it. This series are letters from Seneca, a great Stoic philosopher, bought to you by Tim Ferriss and narrated by John A. Robinson.

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Life’s Golden Ticket: A Story About Second Chances

“Grant me the strength to focus this week, to be mindful and present, to serve with excellence, to be a force of love.” Brendon Burchard

Are you just starting out on your personal transformational journey? If so, this book may be just the prefect starting point. Brandon shares a story of second chances. This is not a typical structured self-help book running through the does and donts of personal transformation – it is a story that takes you on a roller coaster ride.

Without giving too much of the magic of this book away I will focus on some of the key points and then reflect as to why its message is magic. Brendon tells a tale that I believe relates to his own personal journey of transformation. He puts it in a story format that makes for a really easy read. For those just starting out or tempting to make change to embark on their own personal transformation journey, the self-help industry can sometimes be a little off putting. Brendon’s book I feel helps overcome this obstacle.

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The Magic of Thinking Big by David J. Schawrtz

“Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.” David J. Schawrtz

Well if you have read any of my other stuff you will know that I am a big thinker and even bigger dreamer. I think all the time and thus why I find it easy to sit and write.

Thinking compared to thinking big differs in that it is more a focus on the way you think. After reading this book I feel the author would hope that you will gain ideas, principles and tools for training your thoughts to help you lead a more successful life.

You are what you think; believe you can succeed and you will.

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128: Book Reflections| The Mastery of Self by Don Miguel Ruiz Jr. 

“This book is a master class on how to release false ideas about your reality, dissolve outdated agreements that do not serve your true nature, and step into your role as the passionate artist of your own life.” Don Miguel Ruiz

This book is a must read! I absolutely loved it and just love the powerful messages contained within. Our reality is a creation by up domesticated state of awareness. If we can shift our awareness and realise the our reality is within out control, releasing ourselves from any false beliefs or attachments, we can open up a path in life that is absolutely our own.

Don talks about domestication in greater detail in this book but essentially it is how from a young age we are domestic by receiving rewards and punishment that build to form our beliefs and behaviours and therefore depicting our current reality. We often attach ourselves to these states of being that are responsible for holding us back from living a truly authentic life.

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On The Verge: Wake Up, Show Up, and Shine by Cara Bradley

Today I review a book on what it means to live life on the verge. The verge is a place, as Cara describes, where two rivers join. It is here where life flourishes greatly. In life this place called the verge exists by living in the now.

By waking up to each moment will allow you to appreciate life more deeply and calmly. It is also that by becoming more attuned in the present that you and all your brilliance flourishes.

If you with to seek some new perspective as well as insights and techniques on how to tap into you personal power then this is a great read.

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