The Willpower Instinct

Written by Leigh Martinuzzi 

Dr Kelly McGonigal is a health psychologist and lecturer at Stanford University who, using neuroscience and psychology, is dedicated to delivering practical tips and strategies to help improve the well-being of others. After the popularity of one of her courses, ‘The Science of Willpower’ McGonigal decided to write this book to elaborate and explain her work further.

In reading The Willpower Instinct I believe McGonigal successful answers the following questions: What is willpower? How does it work? Why does it matter? And, what we can do about enhancing our personal self-control? (more…)

The Brendon Show

Written by Leigh Martinuzzi 

Brendon Burchard is a leading personal development coach. He is extremely motivational, personable, intimate, and often bursting with excitement and positivity. He is said to be in the top 100 most followed public figures in the world. Walking in circles with the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Bredon is one of the highest paid motivational speakers and hi-performance trainers in the world, said to have trained over 1.5 million students globally.

Previously Brendon’s podcast was known as The Charged Life, however not so long ago it was rebranded as The Brendon Show. The podcast takes us behind the scenes into the world of Brendon as he shares training, live motivational talks, tutorials and other adventures and lessons that he himself has learned over the course of his week. Brendon is almost perfectly matched to what I imagine a true motivational speaker should be like. (more…)

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The Enchiridion & Discourses by Haward B. Morse

Written by Leigh Martinuzzi

“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” Epictetus

Epictetus was a second-century stoic philosopher. Born a slave and raised within the Roman Empire. After his release from slavery, he found peace in Greece where is spent the remainder of his days.

This book is delivered in two parts, the first is short precepts, practical guides to the bulk of his work – The Enchiridion. The second part is the longer discourses of Epictetus. These writings are actually the works of his pupil Arrian. (more…)

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