How to Stop Worrying and Start Living is a life changing book. If I never read it, I probably would have jumped off a bridge with all the stress of product launches and public failures that are inevitable as an entrepreneur.
It uses the short stories from the work days of a senior manager and software consultancy owner to explain how and why the brain reacts the way it does in challenging situations and gives advice on how best to mitigate its limitations.
10 Key Principles that are common to over 100 of the most famous Personal Development books... Brian Johnson discovered these Concepts for Optimal Living and wrote a book about it:
A Philosopher's Notes: On Optimal Living, Creating an Authentically Awesome Life and Other Such Goodness, Vol. 1
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 51.8 ms ] threadHow to Stop Worrying and Start Living - http://www.amazon.com/How-Stop-Worrying-Start-Living/dp/0671...
How to Win Friends & Influence People - http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/06...
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Habits_of_Highly_Effe...
Starting Strength http://startingstrength.com/
(controversial :-P) The Paleo solution http://www.amazon.com/Paleo-Solution-Original-Human-Diet/dp/...
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2680 He wasn't the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, but he was Emperor of Rome. ;)
Walden http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/205
Most of the big problems in life have already been pondered eons ago.
It uses the short stories from the work days of a senior manager and software consultancy owner to explain how and why the brain reacts the way it does in challenging situations and gives advice on how best to mitigate its limitations.
The Power of TED (The Empowerment Dynamic) by David Emerald
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life by Byron Katie
Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior by Mark Goulston and Philip Goldberg
Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy by David Burns
Mojo: How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get It Back if you Lose It by Marshall Goldsmith
The New Manual 2.0 by Tripp Lanier thenewmanual.com
Mind Hacks: Tips and Tricks for Using Your Brain - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mind-Hacks-Tricks-Using-Brain/dp/059...
Mind Performance Hacks: Tips & Tools for Overclocking Your Brain - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mind-Performance-Hacks-Tools-Overclo...
A Philosopher's Notes: On Optimal Living, Creating an Authentically Awesome Life and Other Such Goodness, Vol. 1
http://www.amazon.com/Philosophers-Notes-Creating-Authentica...
This is the best Personal Development Book I ever read.
http://www.entheos.com/optimal-living-101/principles