Books That How to Motivate

Self Help Articles | August 18, 2011

For that extra fuel that sends your life roaring to a successful jolt, these are some books that will be sure to motivate you and get you on that fast track to a better you.

Peace from Broken Pieces is a book by Iyanla Vanza, and details all of the spiritual lessons that the author encountered while on her successful journey, as well as her marriage falling apart and the death of her daughter. Through these experiences she talks about how it is important to keep the faith no matter what and to share the wisdom and strength that people learn with all others by supporting and offering assistance and friendship to them. This is a book that can be helpful if you have ever endured something trying in your life as it seeks to empower with faith and spiritual strength.

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer writes Excuses Begone, a book that seeks to help defeat that kind of self defeating thinking pattern that keeps you from doing your best in the way of health and happiness and success. He argues that to change these habits in the way you think but might be really challenging because of all the excuses people make on a daily basis. So, he tries to approach those excuses and find ways to combat them and make them go away in his strengthening words and defenses so that you can wake up to your dreams at last.

Steven R. Covey writes The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, a book that provides powerful lessons that are meant to help with personal changes that happen in every day life. This book targets ways to work on your perspective on yourself, on the world, and encourages you to focus inward on the particulars of yourself, your tendencies and the way you react to things. It also helps you understand your relationships with other people and how that might or might not be detrimental in the way the dynamics are set up and provides a kind of habit guidebook for how to live a better and happier life.

The same author writes the 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, a book that is similar in structure but reared to a younger audience, taking on the issues particular to teenagers that are more relevant, such as friendships, school, dating, and figuring out talents and aspirations in a way that is productive, finding ways to avoid peer pressure and be the best and most self confident version of themselves as they can hope to be. This is a great book for your teens as it comes with checklists and other kinds of features that will help them better themselves in a private way.

And, Daniel H. Pink writes Drive, a book that talks about the various factors that motivate us, and suggested that all we think about our motivations are actually really wrong. Using some discoveries about the mind, he says that our basic survival needs really are the things that motivate us and that can help people realize their full potential in the end. This book takes in psychology mixed with sociology and economics to give a perspective of humans in today's age and the various misconceptions being that we are motivated by fear of loss and hope