Recommended Reading - Recommended Reading of Self Help

Written by Adam Khan

Self-Help Stuff That Works
by Adam Khan

The best of the best of self-help. One hundred and seventeen power-packed short chapters on improving your attitude, preventing unnecessary negative emotions, being appreciated by the people you love, experiencing less stress, and more. The best use of this book is to consult it when you're down: When you feel upset or worried or angry or frustrated or stressed out. Browse through it, and you'll find a chapter that resolves your bad feelings right away. Keep it easily accessible and watch the quality of your life improve

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over time as you change your habits one chunk at a time.

Think and Grow Rich
by Napoleon Hill

This is the classic success book. With his thirteen principles, Hill explains what a person can do to find a definite chief aim in life, to gain control over his own thoughts, and to stay optimistic and persistent in the pursuit of that aim until it is achieved.

Believe and Achieve
by Samuel A. Cypert

This is a modern version, complete with new research and more modern anecdotes, covering the same 17 principles as Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude.

Playing Ball On Running Water
David K. Reynolds, Ph.D.

This book, as well as the one above, are a delineation of Reynolds' synthesis of Naikan and Morita therapies into a westernized version of self-help, called Constructive Living. This book is interesting, thought provoking, and relentlessly practical. The Constructive Living approach is especially useful for someone who has a lot of psychology training or someone who is often timid or neurotic.

Would it make a difference to you to really pay attention to your ongoing moment-by-moment experience once in a while? Find out here:
American Reading Ceremony

Momentary sources of stress are not the most dangerous. It is the stresses that last that wreak the greatest havoc. Find out how to lessen that kind of stress:
Stress Control

Select from six different chapters from the book on how to make those insights and ideas make a real difference in your life:
Making Changes Stick

When a close friend of yours or your spouse is disturbed by something, and you want to help them, what do you do? What actually helps? Find out here:

A Friend in Deed

When Steven Callahan was struggling to survive during his seventy-six days on a life raft, what did he do with his mind that gave him the strength to continue? Read about it here:
Adrift

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