The flamboyant Virgin entrepreneur from the United kingdom shares some of his business successes, world adventures, and personal background in his bubbly autobiography. "Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way" is a very appropriate title as it is exactly what the book is about. Richard Branson keeps the book fast paced and interesting from start to finish, just like his life. Starting from his beginnings where he was a dyslexic student starting his own student magazine and a music mail order business, through to his ballooning adventures and sprawling global empire. Branson is humble enough to poke fun at himself and talk about his failures while being self confident enough to take on some of the most challenging industries in business.

This book is without a doubt the most life changing self help book I have ever read! It points out how many self help books teach the traits required for success however the traits are often short lived as they fail to reprogram and overide the old programming from the persistence of our subconscious mind. Unless you read and study self help everyday, we tend to revert back to our old programming. Shad Helmstetter teaches you the methods required to reprogram and overide the old negative programming. These have been accepted as `the norm` and have been instilled into our lives from a very early age. Think about this-

99.9% of our overall beliefs are formed by what we are saying to ourselves about ourselves. Even if we are calling someone else "an idiot" it's not really a reflection of the other person as much as it is a reflection of what we believe about ourselves. How many times do we make a mistake and then say " Oh you idiot! Why did you do that?" We have just sent an intense piece of programming to our sub conscious.

This book is a life changing insight and if put into practice will cause radical changes in your mental, financial and spiritual life.

Robert Snow

Another amazing book for anyone looking to progress their life. A book to keep for good!

The main focus of this book is to build ones self esteem, a major leadership attribute in my opinion. The text is designed to take an individual through a six step motivational process to succeed, better defined by Ziglar as the "Stairway to the Top". This Stairway process as defined in Chapter One is to develop ones leadership in relation to a set of stairs or a staircase with success being at the top. Thus each chapter of the book builds on, or is the next step up. The following are the chapters or steps as outlined and discussed by Ziglar.

Step 1: Your Self Image
Step 2: Your Relationship With Others.
Step 3: Your Goals
Step 4: Attitude
Step 5: Work
Step 6: Desire

The six step process is utilized to coincide with the foundation of character, faith, integrity, love, and loyalty to help balance and understand the wants and needs related to Health, Wealth, Happiness, Friends, Growth, Peace, Security, Leisure, Freedom, and Opportunity.

I Believe You can get everything in life you want if you help enough other people get what they want.
Zig Ziglar

 

In "The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success", by Deepak Chopra, he describes the fundamental principles of the universe and how we as part of the universe can be successful. Throughout the book he has to slow down and explain how he is using many of the words as we usually give them different meaning. Then there are a few times that he has to turn to Indian words instead of making up new ones. Many say he is based in Ancient Vedic concepts yet if you did not know of them you would realies these are concepts of the now. He hits the deck running with this book so if you have not been exposed to these concepts before you may need to re-read the book several times. And this book was not meant to just be read, you need to practice the concepts to understand them. This book is based on"Creating Affluence" and does not have the size to contain a lot of background reasoning for drawing conclusions. Your practice of the laws will do that for you. The concepts are too simple to give the titles any meaning however here they are.
1. The Law of Pure - The source of all creation is pure consciousness...
2. The Law of Giving- The universe operates through dynamic exchange...
3. The Law of "Karma" or Cause and Effect- Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in like kind...
4. The Law of Least Effort- Nature's intelligence functions with effortless ease...
5. The Law of Intention and Desire- Inherent in every intention and desire is the mechanics for its fulfillment...
6. The law of Detachment- In detachment lies the wisdom of uncertainty...
7. The law of "Dharma" or Purpose in life- Everyone has a purpose in life...

 

Wow- What can you say about this man.I was fortunate to see him speak at a business seminar in 1996 and i was so inspired by his amazing story. You cannot contemplate the strength and courage this man had to dig up to overcome the months upon months he spent in solitary confinement in the dark without seeing a sole during his long time in captivity."Terry Waite's biography demonstrates the sheer strength of the human spirit and provides an uplifting account of his survival of the years of hardship. Few could have survived such an ordeal without losing hope and it offers some remarkable insights into the man's strength of character."

Terry tells of his humour and faith that got him through such an ordeal. I challenge you to feel sorry for yourself and your current situation after reading this book. It gave me a major turning pint in my life and a whole new perspective that i will always carry with me. If you want true inspiration then-

 

Read this book!!

 

At 30, Duncan Bannatyne had no money and was enjoying life on the beaches of Jersey. He saw a story of someone who had made himself a millionaire, and decided to do the same himself. Five years later he had done it, and now he is worth 168 million. In this remarkable book, Bannatyne relives his colourful path to riches, explaining how anyone could take the same route as he did - if they really want to. In the book, we see how he started out as an ice cream salesman, and built up that business, before moving on to other areas. Hugely articulate, and with numerous fascinating and revealing stories to tell, this is an autobiography and a business book unlike any other - but then Bannatyne isn't like any other businessman, either.

Og Mandino recounts his descent into despair and his discovery of spiritual nourishment in the works of Aristotle, Emerson, Ben Franklin, and Plato, and enumerates the seventeen rules that helped transform his life.

Using an invitation into his study, Mr. Mandino answers who he is, not just what he writes about. When you begin your literary "Og" journey with books such as THE GREATEST SALESMAN and THE GREATEST SECRET, it's easy to think that only sales professionals will glean the most from a Mandino book. Not so, this one! A BETTER WAY TO LIVE is exactly that - a better way to live. Here Mr. Mandino is generous enough to provide 17 Rules to Live By. Og is a tremendous writer and public speaker who has raised my aspirations.

This book is an inspiration and a must read!

This book was based on the amazing insites found by Napoleon Hill whilst searching Andrew Carnegies success formula in which he had to interview 100 millionaires that included the likes of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison and this is the amazing result!

Here are money-making secets that can change your life. Inspired by Andrew Carnegie's magic formula for success, this book will teach you the secrets that will bring you a fortune. It will show you not only what to do but how to do it. Once you learn and apply the simple, basic techniques revealed here, you will have mastered the secret of true and lasting success. And you may have whatever you want in life .