04 June 2016

7 Best Books To Read When You Need Motivation

By Catherine Brooks


It is not only at your lowest point in life that you need inspiration. The most successful people are said to require it more often in order to stay on top. After all, the saying goes like being the best is easy, the hardest part is remaining there. Experts front reading as one of the trick to maintain your A+ game. Here is a compilation of the best books to read when you want to be at your peak in life.

The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People has been termed as a motivation masterpiece. It is written by Stephen Covey and provides a road map to life. Though it sometimes comes as too preachy, it has a lesson with every flip you make. While many successful people have read this title, it appears to have a new insight no matter the number of times you read.

Dale Carnegie has penned a classic entitled How To Win Friends And Influence People. His idea is that businesses thrive when you master relationships with people. Though the world discourages people from mixing friendship with business, Dale contends that people are the center of everything. The principles taught under this title aim at making people better at relating with others.

Millionaires appear like mysterious people when their stories are told. However, Napoleon Hill has debunked this myth through the book Think and Grow Rich. His target was to identify common thoughts, behaviors and best practices that resulted in wealth. The author also wants to dispel the notion that wealth results from luck and greed.

It has been said often enough that every individual possesses extraordinary power. This can be regarded as a giant within. It is up to you to discover how to awaken this giant. Antony Robins uses the book Awaken the Giant Within to draw your attention to minor issues that you can use to achieve this goal. In his thinking, your emotional, mental, physical, financial, etc destiny depends on how well you master your body and mind.

Motivation speakers today focus on immediate action and results in their speeches and writing. It is amazing to know that someone had a different message way back in 1902. Allen James penned the title As a Man Thinketh which says that your actions and eventual destiny will be determined by your thoughts. Failure and success are all dictated by personality.

Every encounter in life is about trading your personality regardless of being an employee, leader, spouse, business dealer, etc. This is what OG Mandino had in mind when he wrote The Greatest Salesman on Earth. The idea is that you will be happy depending on how well you trade your view point. You are the person to decide the content of the deal and ensure that it is in your favor.

The Power of Positive Thinking is the work of an excellent writer called Normal Vincent. It has been referred as heretic because it takes away the shine from a god centric world. However, for Norman and other sociologists, psychologists and scientists, a healthy and happy person is one who engages positive thoughts.




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