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PERSONAL EMPOWERMENT & CREATING POSITIVE LIFE CHANGES:

“Self Matters”
By Phillip McGraw, Ph. D
This book aims to help you create a life that is consistent with your authentic self. Dr. Phil takes you through a series of exercises which help you put the past behind you and make better choices in life. Be prepared to put some time aside to get through his many exercises.
B&N - TC

“Life Strategies”
By Phillip McGraw, Ph. D
In this book, Dr. Phil describes the 10 Life Laws that every person needs to know. Learn them, use them and improve virtually every aspect of your life.
TC

“The Life Strategies Workbook”
By Phillip McGraw, Ph. D
This book includes a series of self-tests. The Life Strategies Workbook will enable you to confront your problems, identify the causes and start working toward permanent solutions.
TC

“QBQ!”
By John G. Miller
The lack of personal accountability is a problem that has resulted in an epidemic of blame, complaining and procrastination. No organization or individual can achieve goals, compete in the marketplace, fulfill a vision, or develop people and teams without personal accountability.
B&N - TC

“The Success Principles”
By Jack Canfield
The Success Principles will teach you how to increase your confidence, tackle daily challenges, live with passion and purpose, and realize all your ambitions. Jack Canfield, co-creator of the phenomenal bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul series, turns to the principles he’s studied, taught and lived for more than 30 years in this practical and inspiring guide that will help any aspiring person get from where they are to where they want to be.
B&N - TC

“Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the life you were mean to live.”
By Martha Beck
If you are looking for someone to guide you in discovering what it is you have been put on the earth to do, Martha Beck can help you. Written in her down to earth and practical style, this book has lots of great exercises to help you get in touch with hearts greatest desires and on track to pursuing them.
B&N - TC

“Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway”
This book is, as it states, “for everyone who wants to get ‘unstuck’ and live a happy ad more meaningful life.” It will inspire you to action despite your fears and self doubt.
B&N - TC

LIFE BALANCE/SPIRITUAL GROWTH:

“The Power of Intention”
By Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
This book is empowering as it helps you to live life from a more powerful and peace-filled space of intention, rather from expectation.
B&N - TC

“Practical Intuition”
By Laura Day
Intuition, gut instinct, sixth sense; whatever you want to call it, we all use it each and every day. Whenever we decide something – what kind of carpet to buy for the living room, what kind of clothes to wear to an important meeting, what kind of financial deal to make at work – the final decision always includes a contribution from the intuitive side of our minds. Laura Day can help you consciously use your hidden gut instinct.
B&N - TC

“Empowering Women”
By Louise L. Hay
“This book to help women reach their true potential has some of my previous ideas and many new ideas. By reviewing the basics and adding to them, we create a firm stand for the future. Empowering Women is the best thing we can do for the planet. When women are suppressed, everybody loses. When women win, we all win.”
– Louise L. Hay
B&N - TC

“You Can Heal Your Life”
By Louise L. Hay
Louise shares her powerful firsthand experiences on the healing path--and explains how limiting beliefs and ideas are often the cause of illness. Louise shows you that by changing your thinking ... you really can heal your life!
B&N - TC

“Change Your Life in 30 Days”
By Rhonda Britten
Do you want to start your life over? Change Your Life in 30 Days takes you on a thirty-day journey that will help you make extraordinary changes in your life. This book will break the myths that keep you locked in fear and unable to be true to yourself. With sensitivity and humor, insight and advice, Rhonda helps define life goals and outline the steps needed to reach those goals.
B&N - TC

“Clear Your Clutter With Feng Shui”
By Karen Kingston
Clutter is stuck energy that has far-reaching effects physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. The simple act of clearing clutter can transform your life by releasing negative emotions, generating energy, and allowing you to create space in your life for the things you want to achieve. In CLEAR YOUR CLUTTER WITH FENG SHUI, Karen Kingston, pioneer of a branch of Feng Shui known as Space Clearing, expertly guides you through the liberating task of clutter clearing.
B&N - TC

COMMUNICATION:

“The One-Minute Apology”
By Ken Blanchard
This book offers businesspeople -- and just about anyone -- a cogent and clear-headed way of approaching one of life's most perplexing dilemmas: how to accept that we have made a wrong decision and how to correct it by making a meaningful apology. The techniques described in this simple but profound story will have significant results at work and at home.
B&N - TC

RELATIONSHIPS:

“The Five Love Languages”
By Gary Chapman
What speaks volumes to you, may be meaningless to your spouse. But here, at last, is the key to understanding each other’s unique needs. Apply the right principles, learn the right language, and soon you’ll know the profound satisfaction and joy of being able to express your love – and feeling truly in return.
B&N - TC

“The Proper Care & Feeding of Husbands”
By Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Countless women call Dr. Laura, unhappy in their marriages and seemingly at a loss to understand the incredible power they have over their men to create the kind of home life they yearn for. Now, in "The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands, Dr. Laura shows you -- with real-life examples and real-life solutions -- how to wield that power to attain all the sexual pleasure, intimacy, love, joy, and peace you want in your life.
B&N - TC

“Relationship Rescue”
By Phillip McGraw, Ph. D
Dr. Phil explodes ten of the most popular myths about what a good relationship is supposed to be. Relationship Rescue is a seven-step strategy for reconnecting with your partner and helps you get back on track with your partner and with yourself.
B&N - TC

“Heart & Soul”
By Daphne Rose Kingma
Daphne shows us how “the boundaries must break down,” both within ourselves and between us and our lovers, husbands, or wives. The most important boundary to fall is that which separates our spiritual essence from its true destination – the soul’s compassion. It is the love experience which opens for us a union with the world, allows us to escape isolation, and helps us enter, through the eyes of the loved one, the realm of the transcendent.
B&N - TC

FAMILIES:

“Family First”
By Phillip McGraw, Ph. D
In Family First, Dr. Phil gives it to parents straight: even in this fast-paced world your family should be the center of your life and your child's life. Parenting is the most important and noble act you will ever undertake, yet American families are threatened like never before from the inside as well as the outside -- many of us fight too much, don't get involved enough in our children's lives, or get bogged down in life's daily struggles instead of keeping our eye on the big picture of our family's well-being.
B&N - TC

“Different Children, Different Needs”
By Dr. Charles F. Boyd
Biblical parenting involves encouraging, exhorting, and empathizing with children according to their unique needs and character. Different Children, Different Needs clarifies what the Bible means when it commands us to "train up a child in the way he should go" (Proverbs 22:6). It teaches moms and dads how to understand the personality God has given their children and how to tailor their parenting styles to meet their children's needs. Pastor Charles Boyd uses the popular DISC personality assessment model to help parents better recognize, accept, and appreciate their kids' temperaments.
B&N - TC

BUSINESS:

“The Greatest Networker in the World”
By: John Milton Fogg
John Milton Fogg's extended parable is the story of a young man on the verge of quitting the multilevel marketing business. As he prepares to give his final opportunity meeting, he meets the individual everyone refers to as "The Greatest Networker in the World." This warm and wise man takes in his young counterpart and shows him the trade secrets so he too can become a successful network marketer.
B&N - TC

“The Power of Focus: How to Hit Your Business, Personal, and Financial Targets with Absolute Certainty”
By: Jack Canfield
This is a must-read for business people, sales managers, entrepreneurs, and anyone who is serious about improving their personal awareness. This book reveals the proven techniques thousands of people have used to attain all of the money they wanted while living healthy, happy and balanced lives. "The Power of Focus," the new blockbuster from the coauthors of the bestselling "Chicken Soup for the Soul," is a practical no-nonsense guide that shows readers how to reach their business, personal and financial goals without getting burned out in the process.
B&N - TC

“The E Myth Revisited”
By: Michael E. Gerber
"The E-Myth, Michael Gerber dispels the myths surrounding starting your own business and shows how commonplace assumptions can get in the way of running a business.
B&N - TC