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12 Months of Healthy Reading

Wanting this year to be better than the last? Here is a list of amazing books we recommend to our readers for the year 2023! 

1. A Year of Self-Care: Daily Practices and Inspiration for Caring for Yourself (A Year of Daily Reflections)

By: Dr Zoe Shaw 

This book helps you kick off the new year with a new mindset and following through on your mental health as well as life goals. We don’t always have the time to seek professional help with obstacles but that shouldn’t stunt progress! Inspire yourself with knowledge you never knew before and improve important areas of your life.

2. Rewire Your Anxious Brain: How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to End Anxiety, Panic, and Worry 

By: Catherine M. Pittman PHD and Elizabeth M. Karle MLIS 

Discovering the root of a problem is the first step to success. For those who seek the “how” behind the science of anxiety will have all their answers all in one place! 

3. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones

By: James Clear 

Atomic Habits is a great book for anyone who is frustrated with the way they can’t seem to kick that one (or two dozen) bad habit(s) and wants to finally achieve health, fitness, financial freedom, great relationships, and a good life.

4. How to Talk to Anyone

By: Leil Lowndes

Lowndes has spent her career teaching people how to communicate for success. In her book How to Talk to Anyone, Lowndes offers 92 easy and effective sure-fire success techniques - she takes the listener from first meeting all the way up to sophisticated techniques used by the big winners in life. 

5. The Power of One More: The Ultimate Guide to Happiness and Success 

By: Ed Mylett

Ed Mylett draws on thirty years of experience as an entrepreneur and coach to top athletes, entertainers, and business executives to reveal powerful strategies to help you live an extraordinary "one more" life.
 

6. What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How successful people become even more successful

By: Marshal Goldsmith 

Perhaps one small flaw - a behavior you barely even recognize - is the only thing keeping you from where you want to be. It may be that the very characteristic you believe got you where you are, like the drive to win at all costs, is what is holding you back.

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“Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don’t abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.” ― Patti Smith

1. The Gold Standard: Giving Your Customers What They Didn't Know They Wanted

By: Colin Cowie

Learn how to cultivate the most incredible customer experiences on earth through this essential guide by Colin Cowie, distinguished purveyor of unforgettable “wow” events for the world’s most demanding clients.

2. The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage into Self-Mastery

By: Briana Wiest

Coexisting but conflicting needs create self-sabotaging behaviors. This is why we resist efforts to change, often until they feel completely futile. But by extracting crucial insight from our most damaging habits, building emotional intelligence by better understanding our brains and bodies, releasing past experiences at a cellular level, and learning to act as our highest potential future selves, we can step out of our own way and into our potential. 

3. 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

By: Jordan B. Peterson 

What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research.

4. Unstoppable: Transforming Your Mindset to Create Change, Accelerate Results, and Be the Best at What You Do

By: Dave Anderson

Unstoppable is a performance-enhancing manual for those who are ready to change the world. Regardless of talent or skill set, there are four types of people in every organization: Undertakers, Caretakers, PlayMakers, and Game Changers—but value is definitely not equal across the board. Game changers move things forward with relentless energy, effort, attitude, and excellence. 

5. Don't Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking Is The Beginning & End Of Suffering (Beyond Suffering)

By: Joseph Nguyen

Helps to overcome anxiety, self-doubt & self-sabotage without needing to rely on motivation or willpower.

6. Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy

By: Patrick Bet-David

Whether you feel like you’ve hit a wall, lost your fire, or are looking for innovative strategies to take your business to the next level, Your Next Five Moves has the answers.