Self-Help Books

Unfortunately, there is a lot of dross out there written by people with little or no experience of sociology or psychology but who have published merely as a means of making money or as a form of catharsis for their own woes! You could probably spend a lifetime just reading self-help books, jumping from fad to fad, and allowing each author's style to keep you procrastinating, instead of dealing with whatever drove you to read the books in the first place. Lot's of people do this.  What you need is action! That's why we gathered together this little list of our favourite books, on varying issues. We believe that the easiest way to buy them, and a whole load of other good titles (but stay focussed on what you think you need!), is at Amazon.

How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
In a conversational style, Dale Carnegie offers practical advice and techniques for how to get out of a mental rut and make life more rewarding. He advises on how to make friends quickly and easily, win people over to your way of thinking, become a better speaker and more entertaining conversationalist and arouse enthusiasm among your associates.

Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude - Napolean Hill
The authors reveal the secrets of PMA - and amazing way to achieve everything from job satisfaction to good health.

Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People - Stephen R. Covey
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change was a groundbreaker when it was first published in 1990, and it continues to be a business bestseller, with more than 10 million copies sold. Stephen Covey, an internationally respected leadership authority, realizes that true success encompasses a balance of personal and professional effectiveness, so this book is a manual for performing better in both arenas. His anecdotes are as frequently from family situations as from business challenges.

50 Things You Can Do Today to Beat Depression - Paul Vincent
A feast of ideas, practical suggestions and background information on how you can improve your mood instantly, and get on with living your life. These step by step suggestions are diverse, enjoyable, and not tied down to any one discipline. Start a new life today!

Life Coaching - Change Your Life In Seven Days - Eileen Mulligan
Coaching is an American phenomenon rapidly gaining popularity in the UK and around the world. A personal coach is the latest type of adviser who will work with their client over the telephone after an initial face-to-face session to help their client sort out personal and professional problems. This text is based on the author's simple techniques for helping her clients reassess their lives, redefine success, set new goals, overcome problems and challenges, change lifelong habits, build confidence and self-esteem and live the life they really want to lead. Using targeted questionnaires, checklists, action plans and inspiring case histories, she helps the reader to devise his/her own personal life programme and achieve what he/she wants to.

Being Happy!: A Handbook to Greater Confidence and Security - Andrew Matthews
This is a highly motivational self-help book with a difference: it has been written with great sensitivity in order that everybody, both young and old, can easily understand themselves and become in every way happier. The author's writings cover many aspects of life, among them attitudes, confidence, luck, success, depression, humour, forgiveness and many more. The book draws on everyday experiences and attitudes to show how we can change things for the better by adopting new approaches to people and situations.

Follow Your Heart: Finding Purpose in Your Life and Work - Andrew Matthews
A sequel to Andrew Matthew's "Being Happy", this is a simple and practical guide for anyone who wants to find purpose in their life and work. It is about: doing what one loves; dealing with bills and broken legs; discovering one's own power; finding peace of mind; dealing with disasters; and not blaming one's mother. The book is also about: how happy people think; why rich people make money, even by accident; and what losers do, and how not to be like them.

If It Hurts, It Isn't Love - Chuck Spezzano
A simple, but life-transforming collection of 365 principles that heal the problems and pain in relationships. Makes you think about relationships in a totally different way.

Freedom from Addiction: The Secret Behind Successful Addiction Busting - Joe Griffin, Ivan Tyrrell
Clear advice on breaking free from addictions and compulsive behaviour. Includes explanations on human behaviours and drives, including the mind tricks that trap people into a cycle of addiction. Really helps you to understand and explains how to take action.

On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss - E. Kubler-Ross
 In her first seminal book, ON DEATH AND DYING, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross identified the five stages of dying: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance. In the years that followed, it became evident that these stages applied not only to the process of accepting death, but also to accepting other difficult and catastrophic life experiences. With ON GRIEF AND GRIEVING, Kubler-Ross and co-author David Kessler revisit the five stages in order to create a deeply empathetic and accessible guide for those in grief. The authors deliver insights and advice designed to help readers normalise their lives and find the courage to continue. Featuring sections on sadness, dreams, coping, isolation, children, healing, and even sex, ON GRIEF AND GRIEVING fuses practical wisdom with spiritual insight as it forges a path to wholeness.