Change Your Paradigm, Change Your Life (2021)
by Bob Proctor
A book that will change the way you look at life!
Bob Proctor is a Canadian self-help author and lecturer.
In this book he explains that, when are doing something that’s out of the ordinary, our mental programing (what he calls paradigms), will try and stop us. Paradigms may came masked in the vestige of fear, worry, anxiety, insecurities, self-doubt, and self-loathing, but it is important to see them for what they are and deal with them to avoid being stuck, not moving forward and unable to pursue our ambitions and dreams.
In this book Bob talks about how, to change our lives, we must change our paradigms and he explains his proven methods for doing so. This book synthesizes his decades of study, application, and teaching, explaining how to identify our very own paradigms and how to transform them into something more positive and helpful which in turn will help us transform our finances, health and lifestyle.
The book touches on the basis of visualization which will expose the reader to a brand new world of power, possibility and promise.
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Six Pillars Of Self-Esteem: The Definitive Work on Self-Esteem (1995)
The Six Pillars Of Self-Esteem by Nathaniel Branden’s is an essential reading for anyone. The book demonstrates the importance of self-esteem in achieving personal happiness and positive relationships. Branden introduces the concept of six action-based practices for daily living that provide the foundation for self-esteem. He also explores the importance of self-esteem in five areas: the workplace, parenting, education, psychotherapy, and the culture at large. The book provides concrete guidelines for teachers, parents, managers, and therapists who are responsible for developing the self-esteem of others but it’s also an easy read for anyone who has an interest in it.
At Wellness & Purpose we highly recommend this book as we believe that the ramification of low self-esteem can be extremely damaging within various aspects of our life.
The Art of Making Memories, how to create and remember happy moments (2019)
by Meik Wiking (CEO of the Happiness Research Institute, Copenhagen)
In this book Meik Wiking, CEO of the Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen, explains that memories are the cornerstones of our identity, shaping who we are, how we act, and how we feel and that happy memories are essential to our mental health.
Using research on happiness, Wiking explores how we can learn to create happy memories and be better at holding on to them. As the architects of our own memories it is important to ensure that we deposit good memories in our memory bank so that, in the future, we are more likely to make withdrawals of happiness.
An easy, warm and funny read that will help you create unforgettable memories.
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The Magic of Thinking Big (2016)
In this International Bestseller David J Schwartz gives engaging, inspiring and empowering tips along with practical tools on how to turn your life around for the better by getting to the core of how thinking big will make you live big! Using a very simple step-by-step approach you will learn how to make your mind produce more positive thinking which will enable you to do things you never thought you could do. It will help you identify negative thoughts and disbelief such as “I’m not good enough…I’m not clever enough…etc” while empowering you. With his concrete success-building programme you will be unstoppable.
Although the book was first published in 1959, David J Schwartz’s classic teachings are as powerful today as they were then. Updated for the 21st century, this is a real motivating and go-to guide on how to start analyzing the way you think for success.
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The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse (2019)
This Sunday Times and New York Times Bestseller is a book for anyone, from eight years old to eighty. This is a story about friendship and being kind to one another but also about love and life. Written in a simple and uncomplicated style, it’s packed with profoundly deep observations about life and what’s important. An easy read that can be started at any point in the book, offering hope in uncertain times. The unlikely friendship of a boy, a mole, a fox and a horse will make you rediscover important values through touching life lessons.
The conversations of the boy, the mole, the fox and the horse have been shared thousands of times online, recreated in school art classes, hung on hospital walls and turned into tattoos. The beautiful illustrations on the book are by the author himself. Charlie Mackesy never went to art school but spent three months in America with a portrait painter where he learned about anatomy and how to draw.
At Wellness & Purpose we all fell in love with this book. A recommended therapeutic feel good read for all.
Never split the difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It (2017)
by Chris Voss
Chriss Voss is a former FBI hostage negotiator, who during his career was faced with very difficult and tricky situations with kidnappers, robbers, gang leaders and terrorists. In this huge International Bestseller Chris Voss offers a new and field-tested approach to negotiating.
At Wellness & Purpose we praise Chris Voss’s work for how well he understands and explains how the human psyche works: heart vs mind, the unconscious and often irrational brain process that distorts the way we see the world, how people respond differently to the same identical choice just because it has been framed differently and the way we take unnecessary risks when presented with uncertain losses. In his own words “Life is negotiation”, so we believe this book can teach us all something.
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The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich (2011)
In this No. 1 New York Times Bestseller, Timothy Ferriss paves the way for a new limitless way of living. His detailed step-by-step guide, practical tips, examples from his own personal experiences as well as case studies from readers who have reinvented themselves using his teachings, you too will soon start to think out of the box living fearlessly and more happily.
At Wellness & Purpose we share the same thoughts on living a life that’s worth living, not just living to work.
Six Degrees: Our Future On A Hotter Planet (2008)
by Mark Lynas
Mark Lynas is a British author, journalist and environmental activist who focuses on climate change. In this book, which won the Royal Society’s science book of the year award in 2008, he provides a detailed and shocking analysis of what a shift from 1 to 6 degrees, caused by global warming, would mean to our planet and how it will affect our lives. This is a must read, a sad but unfortunately eye-opening account of the future of our earth and our civilisation, if the current rates of global warming continue. Especially today, when we are faced with the catastrophic impact climate change is having on our planet, we can almost envisage the world he depicts: the loss of the poles, heat rising as the Icelandic glaciers chase to exists, droughts, the desert expanding and the few habitable areas becoming crowded with refugees as other parts of the world get battered by superstorms.
At Wellness & Purpose we strongly believe that we each are responsible for what is happening in the world and equally accountable if we choose to simply do nothing about it. We have a responsibility not just towards our families and friends but also towards other species and the environment.
“Ignorance, ultimately, is what I fear.” – Lorenza Brock
The Superego (Ideas in Psychoanalysis) (2001)
by Priscilla Roth
This book, written by an expert in the field unravels the recognisable but enigmatic language of psychoanalsis by looking at teh Superego and focusing on the part of it that resides within the unconscious.
We all have a superego. Some of us call it conscience, morality or guilty voice inside of us. It keeps us in check with what it perceives as “good” or “bad”. A harsh & punitive superego at an unconscious level can affect our lives & ruin relationships.
This small booklet, written in easy jargon, is an eye opener! Highly recommended.
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