Inspiring Books to Help You Live Your Best Life

We all want to make positive improvements in our lives, but sometimes it can be overwhelming to figure out where to begin.

I personally love the inspiration I get from reading a good self-development book. While you actually have to do the work to apply the strategies provided to your own life to have them make an impact, it all starts with that motivation that comes from a spark of inspiration while you’re reading.

I know that I can’t be the only one who is always on the lookout for some good self-development books, so I decided to do a round up of a few of my favorites to share with you all today!

These books all focus on different areas of your life, and will hopefully provide you with some encouragement and information to help you live your best life. The books I mention below cover a range of topics that include: ways to create happiness, how to live with less, living a healthier life, developing better habits, and tips for being successful in all aspects of life.

I hope these inspire you to be the best version of you that you can possibly be 🙂 Enjoy!

Inspiring Books to Help You Live Your Best Life:

Living a simple and clutter-free life

The Paperless Home – The clutter that documents and paperwork can bring into our homes and offices typically creates total chaos. Many of us get to a point where it becomes overwhelming and we feel like we can’t ever climb out of the mounds of paper we’ve been buried in.

The Paperless Home is my favorite resource that simplifies the process of going paperless and has step-by-step instructions that walks you through the process so that you don’t have to feel overwhelmed during this process. I’m currently using this book as a guide for implementing more of a paperless environment within my own home, and the sense of calm I’ve experienced through this journey of going paperless is so refreshing and inspiring.

Dress with Less and Create Your Capsule Wardrobe – If you are feeling overwhelmed with chaos in your closet and you want to save time, money, and mental energy by creating a capsule wardrobe so that you are able to get dressed in the morning with ease, this is the perfect fit for you.

While this is more of a micro course than a book, it doesn’t cost more than a book would, and is such a unique program offered by Courtney Carver. The material includes everything you need to know to create your own capsule wardrobe and begin to enjoy the beauty of less. The Dress with Less Microcourse is a collection of instructive, inspiring PDFs, audio recordings, playlists and recorded webinars combined with a supportive private Facebook community.

Fitness

The Women’s Health Big Book of Yoga – This is a great guide to complete mind and body fitness. It includes targeted total body yoga workouts that can be completed in 15 minutes or less, core-strengthening routines, and a healthy & mindful eating plan centered around calming & cleansing foods.

Eating well

The Oh She Glows Cookbook – This is a book with over 100 vegan recipes to help you glow from the inside out. While I am personally not a vegan, I am intrigued by the concept of eating more plant-based recipes and this book is the perfect resource for that! I love that this cookbook embraces the concept of eating whole foods to nourish your body for a lifetime instead of focusing on fad diets that don’t last for more than a week or two.

Happiness

The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World – This book applies Buddhist tradition to twenty-first-century struggles in a relevant way. The result is a wise approach to dealing with human problems that is both optimistic and realistic, even in the most challenging times.

Through stories, meditations, and in-depth conversations, the Dalai Lama teaches readers to identify the cultural influences and ways of thinking that lead to personal unhappiness, making sense of the hardships we face personally, as well as the afflictions suffered by others.

The Happiness Project – The Happiness Project describes one person’s year-long attempt to discover what leads to true contentment. It is a wonderful resource for implementing more happiness and contentment into your daily life.

Habits & success

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – True success encompasses a balance of personal and professional effectiveness, and this book is a manual for performing better in both arenas. This book covers everything from family situations to business challenges.

Before you can even begin to adopt the seven habits, you’ll need to accomplish what the author calls a “paradigm shift”–a change in perception and interpretation of how the world works. This book takes you through this change, which affects how you perceive and act regarding productivity, time management, positive thinking, developing your “proactive muscles” (acting with initiative rather than reacting), and much more. This isn’t a quick-tips-start-tomorrow kind of book, but is sure to leave you with lasting results.

How To Win Friends and Influence People – Learn the six ways to make people like you, the twelve ways to win people to your way of thinking, and the nine ways to change people without arousing resentment. This book will help you make any situation in life work for you!

Blogging

Building a Framework – By far the most comprehensive and helpful book about blogging that I’ve yet to see, and I’ve seen a lot of them.

This ebook includes 35 chapters of immediately actionable strategies and techniques to help you grow your following, work with brands, and make money from your blog. The Author, Abby Lawson, shares all of her tips for how she was able to start earning a six-figure income from her hobby blog in less than two years. Now both her and her husband work full-time on their blog and get to be stay-at-home parents to their two boys. I’m so inspired by Abby’s success and think she is extremely generous to be sharing all of the ways she was able to create her success through this ebook. {If you want to start a blog of your own, I offer a step-by-step tutorial to walk you through the process}

I hope that one of these books resonated well with you and that they help you to live your best life in one ways than one! 🙂

P.S. You can have access to many of these books for free if you are an Amazon Prime member. Amazon has a great program for Prime members that includes the opportunity to borrow over 800,000 ebooks for free – it’s a great way to borrow books without having to remember to run to the library to return them!

What are your favorite books you’ve been reading lately that have helped you to live your best life? Share with everyone below so we can all add some new ones to our reading list!

 

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