Books

Some books I've found (and still find) useful - maybe you will too!

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The Joy Diet - Martha Beck
Nothing to do with eating!
Known for working with Oprah Winfrey, Martha Beck takes a positive and practical approach to teaching people how to develop and use the 10 behaviours that lead to happy successful lives. She starts with encouraging us to 'do nothing' for 15 minutes a day and builds from there.

Fast Food for the Soul - Barbara Berger
Still nothing to do with food as we usually know it!
Short inspiring no-nonsense chapters on harnessing the power of your mind to create the life you want based on the premise that our lives change when our thoughts change.

Your Best Year Yet - Jinny Ditzler
A great title for a very useful book that helps you set yourself up for the year ahead. The life balance KiT diary works very well with it as a tool to make your plans happen.

The Book of Balanced Living - Lucy McCarraher & Lucy Daniels
Organised around looking at the challenges present in different life and career stages, this comprehensive book takes your through practical exercises and hints and tips to get your life under control and keep it under control

Embracing Uncertainty - Susan Jeffers
Practical ways of thinking about and working with change from the author of the classic 'Feel the Fear and do it Anyway'

The Lilypad List - Marian Van Eyk McCain
This books offers a mix of explanations, insights, stories and self-help exercises arranged into 7 steps that lead to living a more simple and sustainable life. Interesting, inspiring and full of wisdom.

Shift Happens - Robert Holden
56 short inspiring pieces on powerful ways to transform your life. Thought-provoking and very readable, they make ideal daily meditions

Pure Bliss - Gill Edwards
Learn the art of living in Soft Time. Hard Time could be said to be a 21st century disease - life full of rush and adreneline balanced by unproductive and unsatisfying flop-out Lost Time.
Alternatively we could be living in the Soft Time cycle where productive focussed Flow Time is balanced by creative, reflective regenerating Soft Time. It's your choice!
Part 1 of the book introduces Soft and Hard Time and Part ! offers 70 themed guidelines to put theory into practice.

Getting Things Done - David Allen
A guide to achieving stress-free productivity! GTD offers a comprensive holistic way of handling all the 'stuff' you have to handle in such a way that you leave your mind and time free to focus on bigger, more creative and more important things.

Ready for Anything - David Allen
52 short chapters/readings on different aspects of managing yourself and organising your use of time. Great for creating a different weekly focus to create a radical improvement in productivity - and so in the quality and quantity of your non-work time.

In Praise of Slow - Carl Honore
Carl Honoré challenges the notion that ‘faster is better’ and explores the human need to reclaim time, to reconnect with ourselves and others and again to take delight in the sensory pleasures of life and living.

Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill
A classic that still has lots to say about how to use the power of your mind to create and develop your financial wealth. A 13-step formula based on interviews with successful people living anad working in the 1930's

You Can Have Anything you Want - Michael Neill
Simply Wonderful! inspiring, practical, fun, capable of generating huge change just through reading it and more if you do the exercises as well.
Michael Neill is very knowledgeable about human motivation, operation and potential and in this book he shares his wealth of experience. Dip in or read right through...

Perfect Health - Deepak Chopra
Best selling book on the mind-body-spirit link in relation to aging and health. Introduces the ancient Indian philosophy and practices of Ayuveda (literally 'the knowledge of life') as a practical way of staying in balance with nature and brining us greater energy, health and wellbeing.

The Secret - Rhonda Byrne
shares and explains a secret that's known to successful people and which has until now only been passed by word of mouth. Based on the wisdom of the universe, the secret offers access to unlimited joy, health, money, relationships, love, youth. By really knowing what you want and setting your intentions to achieve it, you can attract those things into your life. Also a DVD - see a clip here

Life Matters - A Roger Merrill and Rebecca R Merrill
With a forward by Stephen Covey, this book takes the principle of First Things First by Stephen Covey into the wider context of balancing work, family, time and money. It explores common myths such as the assumed conflict between 'work' and 'family' and argues that creating Life Balance is a key navigational life skill for modern times.