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A list of books you can use to empower yourself for success in all areas of your life.

No-one knows everything, we have to learn from the wisdom of others. These books represent some of the best sources of information on how to use your greatest resource - your mind.


Category: Personal Empowerment


How to Get What You Want
and Want What You Have

A Practical and Spiritual Guide to Personal Success

John Gray

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Combining insights from Western psychology and Eastern meditation, John Gray presents an innovative and proven method to become happy, confident, and at peace through four easy-to-follow steps:

Set Your Intention: Recognize where you are now and determine where you need to go in order to achieve success.
Get What You Need: Learn how to get what you need in order to be true to yourself.
Get What You Want: Create outer success without sacrificing inner happiness.
Remove the Blocks to Personal Success: Recognize what is holding you back and clear the way for both inner and outer success.

John Gray introduces the idea of "Love Tanks" within all of us that need to be filled in order for us to reach our full potential.

Stop living by the age-old adage "the grass is always greener on the other side." It's not. You have everything within your reach right now to live a rich and fulfilling life. How to Get What You Want and Want What You Have will help you release your emotional blocks so that you can realize your soul's desire.


The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

Stephen R. Covey

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Book Cover#1 National Best Seller

This book not only tells us that we should do things right, but that we should do the right things. It tells why we should understand and cooperate with others, take control of our time, and renew ourselves so that we can be effective people.

 

 


Awaken The Giant Within
How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical & Financial Destiny

Anthony Robbins

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Book Cover#1 National Best Seller

Anthony Robbins is the master of getting you to overcome the greatest obstacle stopping you from getting whatever you want - yourself. The focus of this book is on exploring and changing the way you think and feel about the things that are important to you. He guides you through a process of discovering your true purpose and taking control of your mind so that you are able to achieve success.

Also available in cassette Audio Cassette version.


Category: Relationships


Men are from Mars,
Women are from Venus

A Practical Guide for Improving Communication and Getting What You Want in Your Relationships

John Gray

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Book CoverIf you want a good relationship with the opposite sex, this book is an essential. Using stories, John Gray creates clear examples of how men and women are different. He shows us that once we understand the opposite sex we are better able to give each other what we need, and therefore increase our satisfaction with our relationships.

Also available in cassette audio cassette and audio CD versions.

 

 


Category: Child Care


Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child
Intellegence That Comes from the Heart

John Gottman, Joan DeClaire

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Book CoverChildren need to master their emotions. This book will equip parents with a five-step "emotional coaching" process that teaches how to:

• Be aware of a child's emotions.
• Recognize emotional expressions as a opportunity for intimacy and teaching.
• Listen empathically and validate a child's feelings.
• Label emotions in words a child can understand.
• Help a child come up with an appropriate way to solve a problem or deal with an upsetting issue or situation.

In the process of learning these skills to be good parents, the same skills will also help with other relationships.

 

 


The Discipline Book
Everything You Need to Know to have a Better-Behaved Child - From Birth to Age Ten

William Sears, M.D. & Martha Sears, R.N.

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Book CoverA manual for attachment parenting. This book explains that self-esteem is the foundation of good behavior and that understanding and connecting with children in the early years is the root of self-esteem. It explains how to deal with behavioral problems when they arise. It strongly advocates teaching values such as apologizing and sharing, and deals with such issues as lying, stealing, and cheating.

 

 


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The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding

Gwen Gotsch, Judy Torgus

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Information on how to avoid many common problems that prevent successful breastfeeding.

 

 


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Becoming Attached
First Relationships and How They Shape Our Capacity to Love

Robert Karen

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Chronicles the scientific discoveries of the impact of early child development. Details observation made on children's family environment and the patterns of development that result.
 

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