Best Personality Development Books
1. 7 habits of highly effective people
One-sentence summary of the book “The 7 habits Highly Effective People”: In his book, the author lays out the seven habits of successful people, the seven fundamental principles that enable the most successful and entrepreneurial people to achieve their goals. Used on a daily basis, they will help those who practice them to live a happy, well-balanced and successful life.
The 7 Habits
1: Be proactive
2: Keep the final goal in mind
Personal success
3: Prioritise the priorities
Independence
4: Think win-win
Public success
5: Try to understand first and then be understood
6: Synergy
Interdependence
7: Sharpen your skills
That’s why we have to be brave — so that others will be inspired to be brave along with us. — Annie F. Downs, 100 Days to Brave
“We can only keep on going, after all, by the power of God, who first saved us and then called us to this holy work. We had nothing to do with it. It was all his idea, a gift prepared for us in Jesus long before we knew anything about it. But we know it now.”
3. The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change
Learning Habit Loop can help us understand this answer to Million dollar question which several organizations and researchers have been searching for months, if not years. Can we forget our old Habits to create new ones? Short is, we cannot forget old Habits. Habits are so tightly coupled with our brain, so that it cannot be forgotten, period. But a Habit can be replaced with another Habit. The book suggests one such technique for Habit Replacement-”The Golden Rule of Habit Change”. The Golden Rule suggests that, to change a Habit — Don’t try to change the Cue or the reward, but change the routine. Our Habit loop activates when it senses or recognizes a Cue and starts performing the routine. This state is where we attack to replace an Habit. We Replace the routine with another routine, which will yield the same reward or sense of satisfaction to us. Say a person wants to change the habit of smoking, and the reward for him is the ‘sense of nicotine inside his system’. When the cue hits , his brain suggests him to pickup a cigarette — What he can do is replace the cigarette with coffee. Coffee can provide similar effects to Nicotine in the brain, so the reward is intact here.
4. The life changing magic of tidying up
“It’s not about what to discard, it’s what to keep.”
“Those storage ‘solutions’ are really just prisons within which to bury possessions that spark no joy.”
Sean went from having everything he thought he wanted to nothing at all and built a life of everything he wanted without being selfish. I’ve learnt that putting yourself first and being selfless can be streamlined and the fog is starting to clear on the path I am walking down.
6. Good days start with gratitude
Cute design, motivational and inspirational quotes without being religion or bible-focused, short and sweet places to write. I could have used a regular notebook or journal but I did not want one like that. I want to jot stuff down without writing a lot. For people complaining about the repetitiveness: get some creativity flowing! Use stickers and washi to customize the pages to your liking! There’s a lot of potential here and the price can’t be beat.
7. Mindfulness in Plain English
This book taught me how to meditate, and after doing it for awhile — realised the tremendous power it has. To say the least, I’m now a meditator for life. As a struggling young person, battling anxiety and depression, I have finally found peace and stillness in my life and the world around me.
The effects of meditation are more effective than any anti-anxiety medication I’ve tried over the years. You just have to break that initial barrier of learning how to do it correctly and regularly, and your life and feelings will transform themselves. I garentee it.
The manner in which this book is set up is very helpful, first they call us to understand the nature and process of the Self-Defeating Path then with that understanding in place show us the Path of Breakthrough, the author also does a wonderful job of presenting case studies and following those case studies through out the book to show us how they work.
Seeing the title of the book, few might be feeling the book will contain a set of rules or tactics which you can practice or teach yourself to wake up at 5 AM. But it’s not TRUE.
To wake up early, we need to sleep early. Keep yourself away from devices while you are sleeping. Minimum 1 hour before you sleep, turn off all your devices.
It’s a fiction story of 4 main characters.
Characters age-wise
- Spellbinder
- Billionaire Mr. Riley
- Male Artist
- Women Entrepreneur
One-sentence summary of The Success Principles: This book is for anyone who wants to fulfill their ambitions and their dreams, whether personal or professional: it offers sixty-four practical and inspiring principles that touch upon all aspects of life to lead you to where you really want to be.
The Book Explain Following things
1.Take full responsibility for your life
“All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you.” Wayne Dyer
2.Discover your “Reason for Living”
“Decide upon your major definite purpose in life. And then organize all your activities around it.” Brian Tracy
3.Decide What You Want in Life
“The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want” Ben Stein
4.Believe It’s Possible
“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” Napoleon Hill
5.Believe in Yourself
“You have to believe in you when no-one else does — that makes you a winner right there.” Venus Williams
6.Don’t be Paranoid
“When life hands you a lemon, squeeze it and make lemonade!” Clement Stone
7.Unleash the Power of Goal-Setting
“You want to set a goal that is big enough that in the process of achieving it you become someone worth becoming.” Jim Rohn
8.Divide and Conquer!
“The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” Mark Twain
9.Success Always Leaves its Mark
“Success always leaves its mark.” Anthony Robbins
10.Release the Brakes
“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” Albert Einstein
11.Picture What You Want, And Get It!
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” Albert Einstein
12.Act As If
“Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.” Charles E.Kettering
