I thought it'd be nice if we all pooled together our personal development repertoire of books, public speakers, inspirational art and all the rest of it; what makes you want to change your life for the better? What inspires you to be a better, more developed individual?
I'll start it off. I highly reccommend the following:
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey - exactly what it says on the front: powerful lessons in personal change. This book has really helped - and is currently helping - to put me in the driver's seat of my life. Buy it, read it, use it. You may not know the full scope of your potential to whop a$$ at life if you do not.
Women Who Love Too Much by Robin Norwood - this literally changed my life, by changing the way I see relationships and my role in them. Most of it can be applied to men who love too much too. As someone who mindlessly went from one relationship to the next throughout my teens - not as a result of 'standard' teen behaviour but actually because I was needy and co-dependent - it helped me to see that I would never find someone who I am genuinely happy with until I worked on my own life and dreams. Buy it if you deep down know that you settle in relationships because you need to be with someone, even if it's someone who you're not actually happy with.
Make Every Man Want you by Marie Forleo - the title is just a gimmicky sales pitch to make you get the book, expecting a list of quick fixes. Then you open the book and realise that it is in fact a powerful, straight-to-the-jocular tome of how to transform your inner game as a woman, and it is written in such a straightforward yet profound style. I've read it over and over, and every time I do, it makes me feel so empowered, like I can do anything. Ironically, by the end of it, making men want me is more or less the last thing on my mind - and that's the whole point!
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Anybody else got any reccommendations? It doesn't have to be books. I just wanna hear about whatever you do/read/watch/listen to etc, for yourself and by yourself, whenever you think to yourself 'right, now what can I do to take my life to the next level?'
