What it is: This book is Ayn Rand’s greatest work and culmination of her artistry and philosophy – a philosophy that celebrates human, earthly life, and the power of human rationality and creativity. It is also a mystery novel that is gripping and exquisitely crafted.
Growth Potential: Many, if not most people are caught between, [...]

What it is: Getting Things Done, or “GTD” to the converted, is a breakdown of how to clear out space for doing the things you really want to do. The nutshell is that we all carry around lots of “todo”s and “todosomeday”s in our heads, and Allen drops a whole slew of common-sense techniques [...]

What it is: The 4 Hour Workweek is a book about designing your lifestyle to inform your job as opposed to your job informing your lifestyle. It outlines strategies for delegating, streamling and outsourcing tasks (yes to India or China) to free up time and stress so that you can do the things you [...]

What it is: This book provides an easy-to-use template for thinking through what kind of a person is your “perfect customer” and even more importantly, how you might attract that “perfect customer” into your life. And even though they use the word “customer,” it’s really about attracting whatever you want into your life: the [...]

What it is: The Power Of Now is a book by Eckhart Tolle that focuses on living fully in the present.
Growth Potential: The Power of Now focuses on the whole “be here now” concept in simple concrete terms. Tolle rams home the idea that life never occurs in the past and the future, only in [...]

What it is: ‘The Game’ chronicles 2 years of the life of Rolling Stone columnist, Neil Strauss, as he infiltrates a society of Pick Up Artists and transforms his skills with women. Strauss goes from a self-described “chick repellant”‘ to, well, the self-described “best pickup artist in the world.” Through his tales, readers learn [...]

What it is: The Secret is based on a concept called, “the law of attraction” and teaches its principles through interviews with various authors and experts in the fields of psychology, metaphysics, finance, and personal development. The Secret’s basic tenet is that by changing the way you think and focusing on what you really want, [...]

What it is: The full title of the book, “A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire” is a pretty damn good description. A ‘How To’ guide of sorts for men about the big 3 in life, told with an in-your-face honesty. Not for the weak of heart.

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What it is: Innovative set of tools and exercises for recognizing where you get stopped by fear, and suggested practices to overcome, that most chilling of emotions.

Growth Potential: A female in a world of male self-help authors. Jeffers’ book was revolutionary when it came out in 1987. There must have been some real magic in [...]