The best 100 Mindful Work books

The central theme of the book is the business of literally delivering happiness while living a life of passion and purpose. Delivering Happiness (2013) tells the story of Tony Hsieh and his company Zappos, demonstrating how thinking long-term and following your passions can not only lead to profits but also a happy life for your employees, your customers, and yourself. The book describes an alternative approach to corporate culture that focuses on the simple concept of making people around you happy, and by doing so increasing your own happiness.

• Anyone interested in running a successful business
• Anyone wishing to change the world
• Anyone who wants to know how profits, extraordinary customer service and happiness can all go hand-in-hand

Flow (1990) explores how we can experience enjoyment in our lives by controlling our attention and strengthening our resolve. This is achieved by being immersed in an activity or subject that makes us neither anxious (if it’s too hard), nor bored (if it’s too easy). In this “flow state” we lose our self-consciousness, selfishness and sense of time. Using goal-setting and immediate feedback, we can achieve a state of flow that improves our relationship with work, increases our self-worth and gives our lives meaning.

• Anyone who wants to be more engaged with their relationships, their work or the world
• Anyone aiming to rise out of mediocrity and gain mastery over something
• Anyone who wants to know how their health can be improved by ancient wisdom and diverse cultures

Essentialism (2014) teaches you how to do better by doing less. By offering practical solutions for how to get your priorities straight, Essentialism helps you to eliminate all of the junk in your routine that’s keeping you from being truly productive and fulfilled.

• Anyone who thinks that they are far too busy without being productive
• Anyone who feels like there is never enough time
• Anyone having a hard time identifying his or her priorities in life

Creativity (1996) is an exploration of how creative people produce groundbreaking ideas. It unpacks the commonalities between creatives and their backgrounds, and explains exactly what it is that makes a creative person able to give birth to unique concepts.

• Artists, writers and scientists exploring human creativity
• Creative types who dance to the beat of their own drum
• Anyone looking for creative inspiration

Deep Work (2016) is all about how the rise of technology has wrecked our ability to concentrate deeply on tasks – and how to overcome this blockade. These blinks illustrate different strategies that can help you improve the output of your work and get the most out of your free time.

• Anyone trying to concentrate on cognitively demanding tasks
• People whose days are consumed by email, social media and technology
• Workers interested in learning tools to enhance their productivity

Designing Your Life (2016) is about taking control of your life by creating a plan that’ll do away with an uninspired nine-to-five routine and usher in a career that you really love. You’ll find advice and exercises that will point you toward your true calling, along with progressive ideas that challenge the limitations of traditional career counseling.

“I love this practical, no-nonsense approach to the often nebulous topic of identifying the life you want to lead.” – Ben H, Head of Content at Blinkist

• Students and recent graduates plotting their way forward
• Adults both young and old who feel adrift in life
• Career counselors

Hyperfocus (2018) is a straightforward guide to reclaiming your attention that lays out how you can boost both your productivity and creativity by learning to redirect your focus. Combining periods of intense concentration with spells of creative thinking sets the foundation for a brighter, more efficient version of you.

• Highfliers trying to become even more efficient
• Procrastinators with shrinking attention spans
• Creatives looking to discover exciting new ideas

What Color Is Your Parachute? 2021 (2021) is a fresh edition of a book that’s widely regarded as the job-hunter’s bible. It’s packed with classic exercises and time-tested strategies that empower prospective employees to find, and secure, the role they want. This new edition contains essential updates that speak to the contemporary job market.

• Job-seekers wondering if they’ll ever land a coveted role
• Fed-up employees who are ready to take on a new career challenge
• Prospective entrepreneurs who need a kick start

Noise (2019) is an antidote to our distracted times. In an age of shrinking attention spans and divided focus, it shows us how to reclaim our natural powers of concentration.

• Tech addicts trying to break their bad habits
• Procrastinators who need to rediscover their ability to focus
• Leaders interested in distraction-proof communication

You’re About to Make a Terrible Mistake! (2020) deals with the negative but often predictable effects that cognitive biases have on high-stakes decisions. Far from claiming that biases can be eliminated altogether, it demonstrates how every decision is colored by bias and outlines specific techniques that’ll help you make more rational, fact-based business decisions.

• Businesspeople who have to make frequent decisions
• Anyone interested in business strategy and behavioral economics
• Fans of Daniel Kahneman or Malcolm Gladwell

Win at Work and Succeed at Life (2021) explores the pitfalls of our long-hours work culture. It outlines how professionals can reclaim their personal lives and achieve a better work-life balance.

• Anyone struggling with burnout
• Stressed-out professionals seeking balance
• People managers wanting to boost employee engagement

All Work No Play (2021) teaches tricks and tips for getting more happiness and joy from everyday life. This fun and practical handbook draws on play-based mindfulness strategies designed to help you improve relationships, boost mental well-being, and reconnect with your inner child. 

• People who want more joy from daily life
• Anyone looking for new mindfulness strategies
• Tired workers striving for balance

Real Change (2020) is a guide to building a better world through cultivating inner strength. This manual teaches how meditation and mindfulness are key to navigating the stresses and pressures of modern life.

• Do-gooders burnt out from the struggle
• Stressed caregivers looking for a break
• Anyone interested in the benefits of meditation

How to Thrive in the Virtual Workplace (2021) is a guide to working remotely. With tips for both organizations and individuals, it covers everything from the benefits of remote work to steps for implementing it successfully, and the tools and tricks that make it easy.

• Organizational leaders interested in going remote
• Employees who want a fulfilling remote experience
• People who are curious about the future of work

The Long-Distance Teammate: Stay Engaged and Connected While Working Anywhere (2021) is a guide to being a quality teammate while working remotely. It helps you navigate all the interpersonal issues that pop up when you’re no longer sharing an office with your coworkers, and gives advice on how to build connections with people you haven’t seen.

• Anyone working remotely
• Workers unsure where they fit in
• People seeking a better work-life balance

The Work-Life Balance Myth (2021) is a guide to managing stress and creating harmony across the key areas in your life using the Seven-Slice Method. Rather than divide your waking hours between work and life, the Seven-Slice Method recontextualizes life into seven key areas and demonstrates how spending time in each of them every day can help you overcome pressure and find peace.

• Professionals seeking ways to manage stress
• Parents struggling to juggle family and work life
• Those who want more harmony in their lives

The Purpose Myth (2020) dispels the idea that what you do to earn a living should also be your life’s driving purpose. Although many job offers are posted as fulfilling opportunities, the reality of office life remains banal. This book offers clear guidance on how to find the joy and satisfaction that’s too often lacking at work. 

• People looking to put some purpose back into their lives
• Aspiring entrepreneurs on the hunt for inspiration
• Anyone who finds their day job unfulfilling

How to Fix Meetings (2021) is a guide for turning long and ineffective meetings into well-designed sessions that encourage collaboration and produce results. From defining a meeting’s purpose to helping people get started on their tasks, How to Fix Meetings outlines the best ways to get the most out of any meeting.

• Leaders who want to change their organizations’ meeting culture 
• Facilitators who want to run better meetings
• Anyone fed up with ineffective meetings

Effortless (2021) challenges the idea that achieving anything worthwhile means overexerting ourselves. This easy-to-follow guide breaks down how to make tasks and projects feel easy, actions we can take to maximize our efforts, and techniques for increasing outputs while keeping our inputs low.

• Workaholics looking for a better way
• Leaders who want their teams to work smarter
• Students under pressure to overachieve

The Burnout Fix (2021) is a practical guide to thriving in the modern workplace. Today’s world of work is characterized by uncertainty, change, and a blurring of lines between home and the office. That’s why it’s essential that employees learn to set healthy boundaries, develop core skills, and make choices that prioritize their well-being. 

• Innovative leaders who want to create thriving workplaces
• Exhausted executives looking to regain passion and pleasure in their work
• Psychology buffs striving to understand the causes of burnout

Meditation (1988) provides a valuable overview of Osho meditations – an approach to meditation that emphasizes awareness and uses movement as a way of preparing the mind and body. It provides the basic principles behind Osho meditation, as well as a few foundational techniques to get you started.

• Anyone interested in meditation
• Fans of the Wild Wild Country Netflix series
• People looking to become more aware and more relaxed

Wellbeing at Work (2021) explores how the different spheres of our lives contribute to our overall sense of well-being. It also outlines how leaders can positively impact their employees’ well-being, and sheds light on the link between employee well-being and organizational success. 

• Stressed-out workers
• Managers learning how to lead in a pandemic
• Wellness enthusiasts looking for inspiration

A Minute to Think (2021) explores how busyness is harming our productivity – and why it's so important to take regular pauses. It reveals the mental and economic costs associated with our hectic modern working environments and explains how we can reclaim our time. 

• Busy professionals hoping to claw back some me-time
• Leaders seeking to build a more creative working environment
• Managers wanting to improve their team’s well-being

How to Be a Productivity Ninja (2014) transforms old-school time-management techniques and productivity advice into a twenty-first century handbook on how to work smarter – not harder. Adapted to the realities of contemporary work and life, it’s filled with practical guidance and exercises for boosting productivity.

• Chronic procrastinators who’d like to get more done
• Habitual multitaskers who can’t seem to follow through
• Anyone who’s scared of their overflowing inbox or novel-length to-do list

Positively Energizing Leadership (2022) offers organization leaders and workers a practical guide to understanding and harnessing the power of positively energizing characteristics and interpersonal approaches. With empirical data and how-to advice, it aims to boost innovation, profits, and compassion in the workplace and at home. 

• Anyone working as part of a team 
• Managers who want to increase interpersonal richness in their organization 
• Leaders looking for strategies to deal with a “black hole” of a worker 

Conversations Worth Having (2018) looks at the power of conversation in our lives and what we can do to communicate more productively at work, in our relationships, and in the community. Drawing on real-life stories and scientifically based theories, it illustrates how we can improve organizations and lives using the principle of Appreciative Inquiry – effective conversation through positive perspective and asking the right questions.

• Leaders who want to engage with their teams for the best results
• Parents and teachers who want to see their children flourish
• Anyone looking to improve the tone and direction of their conversations

Stolen Focus (2022) begins with author Johann Hari experiencing a common problem: his attention span is diminishing. He can’t seem to focus on much outside of Twitter and online news. Over three years, Hari tries to identify the root causes of this problem. He uncovers a collective attention crisis that’s affecting the entire globe. From social media to the culture of productivity, Hari identifies the culprits behind our stolen focus – and wonders if, and how, we can claim it back.

• Anyone who feels like they just can’t concentrate the way they used to
• Multitaskers with brimming to-do lists who still feel like they don’t get much done
• Anyone scrolling through social media while they’re reading this!

The Procrastination Cure is a practical and motivational guide to overcoming procrastination. It offers strategies and personal insights to diagnose and address the root causes of this behavior, enabling readers to balance productivity and relaxation without guilt.

• Anyone who struggles with procrastination
• People suffering from perfectionism or resistance
• Anyone willing to introspect and develop self-awareness

The Song of Significance (2023) is business thinker and creativity expert Seth Godin’s manifesto for leveraging teamwork and collaboration to build radically meaningful workplaces. Traditional models of work are under threat from encroaching AI technologies – why not dismantle them altogether, Godin asks, and build something better in their place? 

• Employees feeling disillusioned by the 9-to-5 grind
• Bosses who want to inspire their teams but don’t know how
• Thoseready to carve out space for significance in their professional lives

The Good Enough Job (2023) is a radical guide to reclaiming your life beyond the corporate walls. Through a series of anecdotes and actionable advice, you’ll learn to break free from burnout and find true work-life balance. 

• Recovering workaholics
• People healing from burnout spells
• Anyone fighting against pointless corporate restraints

The Practice of Adaptive Leadership (2009) demonstrates how leaders can mobilize people to tackle tough challenges and thrive in the face of harsh realities that demand new skills and responses. It provides a practical framework for diagnosing situations, distinguishing between technical problems and adaptive challenges, and avoiding common leadership pitfalls that come with over-dependence on authority.

• Developing Leaders
• Managers interested in mobilizing people 
• People facing new challenges

The Mind of the Leader (2018) explores how leaders can cultivate critical inner capacities like mindfulness, selflessness, and compassion to become more effective guides. Supported by research conducted by The Potential Project, it draws on psychology, neuroscience, and case studies of global organizations to provide science-based tools for strengthening these core leadership skills. 

• Managers looking to improve their leadership skills
• Emerging leaders 
• Entrepreneurs and founders wanting to develop a purpose-based leadership approach

Finding Clarity (2023) offers insight into developing more fulfilling personal and professional relationships through the practice of compassionate accountability. It delves into seven strategies for enhancing communication and understanding in relationships, to foster environments that are both supportive and productive. 

• Professionals seeking improved workplace communication and leadership skills
• Individuals looking to enhance personal relationship dynamics
• Anyone interested in mindfulness and emotional intelligence development

Decisions About Decisions (2023) digs into the delicate process of how people make decisions big and small. It reveals the emotional and cognitive mechanisms hidden beneath decision-making methods and the effects of various strategies, showing how our judgments impact our ideas, values, and behaviors.

• Strategic leaders
• Curious self-improvers
• People interested in behavioral economics

How to Win at Chess (2021) is a comprehensive beginner-oriented guide to the ancient game of chess. Packed with insights into openings, endings, tactics, and strategy, it provides a clear, structured path for players to get to grips with the fundamentals of the game, and build on their skills.

• Beginners wanting to learn fundamental chess strategies
• Chess players aiming to improve their tactics and gameplay
• Fans of GothamChess’s YouTube channel

Mind Shift (2023) describes how intentionally structuring your mental frameworks is the key to unlocking personal fulfillment and success. It encourages you to make courageous choices and optimize your performance by discarding self-limiting beliefs and actualizing your dreams. 

• People seeking inspiration to make changes in their lives
• Those who feel held back by self-doubt and limiting beliefs
• Leaders aiming to foster empowering mindsets and greater possibility in their organizations

Building a Non-Anxious Life (2023) is a straight-talking manual for regaining peace and joy. It offers a six-step roadmap to navigating the stress-inducing modern world with intention and perspective – reminding us that while we might not be able to eliminate anxiety completely, we can reduce it significantly. 

• Anyone for whom “stressed” has become the default mode 
• Individuals dealing with anxiety, depression, or trauma 
• People who want to improve their health and relationships 

How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind (2016) offers practical, reality-based strategies to take control of household chaos without relying on perfection. It will guide you through small, consistent habits that reduce clutter and make cleaning manageable, helping you to create a functional and peaceful home. With humor and honesty, it emphasizes actionable steps to transform overwhelming mess into order.

• Busy parents balancing endless tasks and household chaos
• Overwhelmed individuals feeling paralyzed by clutter and perfectionism
• Time-strapped professionals seeking functional home routines

Mindfulness for Beginners (2016) teaches wholeness and contentment are qualities present within each of us, accessible through mindful awareness. It serves as both a practical guide to and philosophical exploration of mindfulness.

• Overthinkers who want to step back from unproductive thought patterns
• Self-critics ready to develop a kind relationship with themselves
• Stressed-out professionals who want to replenish themselves by finding inner peace

Dopamine Detox (2020) is a concise guide that addresses a prevalent issue in today's distraction-filled world, offering you practical strategies to overcome procrastination and enhance focus. It reveals the impact of excessive dopamine stimulation on your ability to concentrate and tackle demanding tasks. Through a step-by-step approach, it empowers you to implement a dopamine detox in just 48 hours, enabling you to regain control over your attention and pursue your goals with renewed clarity.

• Chronic procrastinators
• Goal-setters struggling to find motivation
• Professionals seeking enhanced productivity methods

How to Enjoy Your Life and Your Job (1955) provides guidance about getting more out of your day-to-day life, by generating more energy into your workday and improving your personal relationships. It sheds a light on how human nature influences the way we behave, so you can improve your interpersonal skills and deepen your self-understanding.

• The chronically weary
• Managers who want to become more effective leaders
• Students of human nature

The 5 Resets (2024), is a comprehensive guide to how we can better manage stress with the help of five key life-enhancing strategies. Brought to life by the stories of a Harvard doctor and her patients, it focuses on making manageable lifestyle adjustments to improve mental and physical health, fostering resilience and balance in the process.

• Professionals facing workplace stress and burnout
• Busy parents and caregivers seeking a better work-life balance
• Entrepreneurs managing stress and growth

Slow Productivity (2024) offers a transformative philosophy for achieving meaningful accomplishment while avoiding overload. It critiques the broken definition of productivity that leads to overwhelming task lists and burnout, proposing a more sustainable alternative inspired by history's creative thinkers. Drawing on examples from Galileo to Jane Austen, it presents the principles of "slow productivity", offering practical advice for escaping overload and pursuing long-term quality in work.

• Stressed knowledge workers overwhelmed by pointless admin
• Burnt-out professionals who’ve lost their creative spark
• Managers who want to see real results from their teams

Practical Optimism (2024) offers actionable strategies for fostering well-being and resilience in everyday life. Through nurturing relationships, forming positive habits, and cultivating self-compassion, individuals can enhance their mental and physical health while thriving amidst life's challenges.

• Anyone looking for a boost of positivity in their lives
• People coping with depression or anxiety
• Those eager for more confidence and resilience

The Mindful Body (2023) delves into the intricate connection between the mind and the body, presenting the idea that they aren’t separate entities but rather one unified system. Backed by cutting-edge research, it explores how changing our thoughts and perceptions can profoundly impact our physical well-being.

• Psychology enthusiasts exploring mind-body connection theories
• Individuals seeking holistic approaches to health and wellness
• Anyone interested in mindfulness insights

Inner Excellence (2010)  is your guide to mental mastery, helping you stay calm under pressure and push past fear and self-doubt. It teaches practical techniques to rewire limiting beliefs and build unshakable confidence. By shifting your focus from results to growth, you’ll develop the mindset needed to perform at your best – no matter the challenge.

• Professionals who struggle with high-stakes pressure
• Creatives battling self-doubt and fear of failure
• Individuals trapped by external definitions of success

Sovereign (2024) explores how people can take back their freedom and learn to truly value themselves. It offers science-backed strategies to break free from self-destructive patterns and beliefs, aiming to help readers live more authentic, fulfilling lives. Using real-life examples of people who hold an inner sovereignty, it addresses how readers, too, can reclaim sovereignty over their work, family, body, and mind.

• Self-improvement aficionados looking for growth strategies
• Burned-out professionals needing guidance
• People battling with self-doubt and low self-esteem

Yoga for Better Sleep (2019) combines sleep science with age-old yogic wisdom, creating yoga sequences specifically designed to promote healthy, restorative sleep. It shares practical postures, breathing tools, and meditation techniques that can be easily incorporated into a pre-bedtime routine.

• Insomniacs who want to tap into natural, holistic remedies for wakefulness
• Yoga-lovers who want to direct their practice specifically towards promoting rest
• Anyone who’s sick of lying awake and counting sheep…

The Courage to Be Disliked (2018) takes a look at the psychology of Alfred Adler, the famous twentieth-century Austrian psychologist. Adler argued that we should care less about what other people think and the authors show how this philosophy can benefit us today.

• Mental health professionals
• Quiet souls with low self-esteem who want to find their place in the world
• Educators seeking insights into human behavior

The Practicing Stoic (2018) offers guidance on how to handle tough times with a clear mind and steady heart. Tapping into ancient wisdom, it provides lasting lessons on seeing things clearly, making smart choices, and dealing with life’s challenges more smoothly. 

• Philosophy enthusiasts seeking practical life guidance
• Readers interested in ancient wisdom and modern application
• Individuals facing personal or professional challenges

Tapping (2024) explores the practice of Emotional Freedom Techniques which combine elements of cognitive therapy with acupressure to promote physical and emotional healing. It explains how tapping on specific meridian points while focusing on emotional issues can help alleviate stress, anxiety, and other psychological challenges.

• Stressed-out people seeking relief
• Alternative medicine practitioners
• Self-help enthusiasts

Then I Am Myself the World (2024) explores consciousness, showing how our experiences and mindset create our individual reality. By expanding our consciousness, we can also transform our lives.

• Anyone interested in consciousness
• People who want a better understanding of themselves and others
• Anyone intrigued by psychedelic drugs

I Shouldn’t Feel This Way (2024) is for anyone struggling with overwhelming emotions like fear, shame, and anger. It offers practical tools for managing and transforming these feelings to build healthier relationships, set firm boundaries, and foster a deeper sense of self-compassion and spiritual growth.

• Anyone in need of some good self-help tools
• People struggling with regret and low self-esteem
• Those who’d like to quiet their harshly critical inner voice

Deliberate Calm (2022) offers a compelling exploration of leadership in an era of rapid change, introducing the concept of Dual Awareness as a tool for navigating complexity. By combining insights from neuroscience, psychology, and consciousness practices with decades of boardroom experience, it offers a fresh approach to adaptive leadership that unlocks potential and builds resilience in the face of uncertainty. 

• Leaders seeking to build agile, adaptable businesses in uncertain markets
• Professionals aiming to develop resilience and adaptive skills
• Anyone interested in neuroscience-backed approaches to leadership growth

#Positivity (2018) offers practical strategies for achieving success by overcoming negativity and focusing on personal goals. It presents easy-to-follow techniques for shifting your mindset and building a foundation for lasting success in all areas of life.

• Goal-oriented people looking for clear strategies to succeed
• Professionals aiming to balance ambition with gratitude and humility
• Individuals seeking personal growth through positive mindset practices

Confidence (2024) explores how to navigate today’s tumultuous world through the lens of Buddhist teachings. It examines the concept of the Eight Worldly Winds, offering insights into your relationships with yourself and others, and includes meditation exercises to help you access your innate wisdom and cultivate confidence.

• People struggling with confidence and self-doubt
• Mindfulness enthusiasts looking to deepen their practice
• Anyone interested in personal growth and self-improvement

Let It Settle (2024) guides you through daily mindfulness habits designed to calm the chaos of everyday life. By incorporating simple meditation techniques and grounding practices, you’ll move from feeling overwhelmed to finding clarity and inner peace. It’s your toolkit for navigating stress and embracing a more balanced, present existence.

• Busy professionals needing a dose of mindfulness to combat career-induced stress
• Students facing academic pressures in search of tools to manage anxiety
• Anyone feeling emotionally overwhelmed and in need of self-love

Your Stone Age Brain in the Screen Age (2024) explores how the human brain, largely unchanged since the Stone Age, often struggles to cope with the demands of modern technology. It explains why our brains are vulnerable to digital addiction and Big Tech’s influence, given that they evolved for survival in a prehistoric world, and what that does to us as humans. 

• People concerned about digital addiction and its effects
• Anyone interested in brain health and modern technology’s impact
• Readers curious about human evolution and tech’s influence on behavior

Meditation for Mortals (2024) offers a refreshing approach to navigating life’s messy reality, urging us to stop waiting for perfection and start fully living in the present. Through thought-provoking insights and relatable examples, you’ll see how embracing imperfection can lead to deeper fulfillment, peace, and connection. Now’s the time to let go of endless striving and find joy and meaningful work in the here and now.

• Self-improvement seekers
• Overthinkers looking for ways to embrace imperfection
• Anyone feeling overwhelmed by endless to-do lists

A Liberated Mind (2019) presents a practical framework for developing psychological flexibility through six key mental shifts, based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). It demonstrates how to move from struggling with thoughts and feelings to accepting them as natural experiences while taking meaningful action guided by personal values.

• Those going through major life transitions or facing difficult decisions
• People experiencing anxiety, stress, or recurring unwanted thoughts
• Anyone who wants to develop a healthier relationship with difficult thoughts and emotions

The Leader’s Guide to Mindfulness (2018) explores how the “soft” skill of mindfulness can deliver leaders “hard” results at work, at home, and beyond. Through actionable insights, it emphasizes the importance of aligning personal values with professional objectives, enabling leaders to inspire and motivate others in a way that is both sustainable and authentic.

• Leaders seeking to foster healthier and more productive work environments 
• Anyone struggling to find a sustainable work-life balance 
• Coaches or mentors supporting leadership development 

Toxic Productivity (2024) explores the emotional dynamics behind our relentless drive for achievement, revealing how societal pressures, shame, and perfectionism fuel a cycle of overwork and burnout. It combines research, personal stories, and therapeutic insights to help readers identify and break free from toxic productivity habits. 

• Overworked professionals who need to balance productivity with well-being
• Perfectionists ready to break free from unrealistic standards
• Students who want to manage academic pressure while prioritizing mental health

Don’t Say Um (2025) breaks down outdated ideas about speaking and gives you tools to communicate with clarity, confidence, and ease. Treating speaking as a skill that can be practiced and improved, it’s packed with useful exercises and actionable insights. 

• Professionals seeking to improve public speaking and communication skills
• Individuals overcoming anxiety around speaking in high-pressure situations
• Anyone aiming to communicate more clearly, confidently, and effectively

Defy (2025) explores the pervasive societal pressures that lead people to comply against their better judgment and presents groundbreaking research on how to resist these forces. It introduces a revolutionary framework for understanding and practicing defiance as a positive force, offering practical strategies for speaking up and making decisions that align with your values.

• Leaders and managers responsible for building ethical organizational cultures
• Professionals navigating complex ethical decisions in their places of work
• Activists seeking to create systemic change from within institutions

Do Epic Shit (2021) explores practical and inspiring lessons on success, personal growth, and resilience through reflections on failures, habit-building, and entrepreneurship. It delves into themes like money management, empathy, and nurturing relationships, offering insights for a fulfilling and impactful life. It will encourage you to reflect, underline memorable lines, and share the wisdom you gain widely.

• Entrepreneurs seeking growth and meaningful business impact
• Self-reflective people aiming to align life with values
• Goal-oriented individuals seeking to build consistent habits for success

Powered by Happy (2010) presents a comprehensive guide to transforming the workplace experience through proven happiness practices and strategies. Drawing from real-world experiences and diverse workplace scenarios, the book offers practical insights and actionable tools for developing a more fulfilling and successful work life. 

• Workplace culture champions interested in creating positive change from any position
• Professionals feeling stuck in a cycle of workplace stress and negativity
• Anyone experiencing workplace burnout who needs actionable strategies for recovery

The Pause Principle (2025) examines how workplace reactivity weakens organizations and undermines leadership effectiveness. Instead of reacting impulsively, it advocates for mindfulness-based strategies that foster intentional decision-making. Through a comprehensive framework, it guides leaders in transforming reactive habits into thoughtful responses – helping them build stronger teams, make better decisions, and cultivate a culture of trust and innovation.

• Rising professionals hoping to build on their emotional intelligence
• Experienced leaders looking to break long-standing patterns of reactive behavior
• Anyone aiming to manage stress better in tough situations

Gentle (2025) offers a counterintuitive solution to the contemporary culture of exhaustion by reclaiming rest as essential, rather than a reward for productivity. It provides practical, actionable strategies for breaking the cycle of busyness, and challenging the glorification of hustle, while enhancing well-being and effectiveness. 

• Busy professionals experiencing – or on the verge of – burnout
• Caregivers who regularly prioritize the needs of others
• Anyone who has normalized chronic fatigue as “just how life is”

Shift (2025) is a comprehensive science-based guide to managing – and maybe even mastering – your emotional life. It outlines what emotions are, why they matter, and how they can be tangibly harnessed to help, not hinder, you in pursuit of a life well lived. 

• Anyone wanting to better manage their emotions  
• Parents and professionals navigating today’s complex stresses and stressors 
• Leaders and educators committed to modelling best practice 

The Hidden Power of the Five Hearts (2024) offers a unique way to unlock deeper levels of self-awareness, inner peace, and connection. The Five Hearts are steps in a journey, one that teaches you to lead with love, intuition, and emotional balance in every area of your life. 

• Spiritual seekers
• Mindfulness practitioners
• Anyone interested in holistic living

Light on Yoga (1966) is a comprehensive guide to the ancient practice of yoga that systematically presents over 200 postures alongside detailed instructions and philosophical teachings. This influential work thoroughly explains the eight-limbed path of yoga, balancing practical techniques with spiritual wisdom to offer practitioners a complete framework for physical, mental, and spiritual transformation. 

• Individuals interested in mind-body connections and integrative approaches to health
• Yoga practitioners who want to deepen their understanding beyond physical postures
• Anyone stressed out and looking for holistic approaches to well-being

The Pathless Path (2022) challenges the conventional “default path” of work and life, urging readers to embrace uncertainty and carve an idiosyncratic path of meaning and aliveness. Whilst not a prescriptive roadmap, it offers insights and inspiration for every step of the pathless path journey, inviting a reimagination of what is believed to be possible. 

• Recent graduates questioning traditional definitions of success 
• Aspiring digital nomads seeking location‑independent lifestyles 
• Burned‑out corporate employees exploring alternative careers 

We Can Do Hard Things (2025) explores twenty profound questions about identity, meaning, resilience, and authentic living through the lens of personal stories and practical wisdom. The questions aim to reframe life's most challenging aspects not as obstacles to overcome, but as opportunities to discover who we really are beneath our fears, expectations, and protective mechanisms. 

• Those recovering from trauma or difficult childhoods who are working to understand how their past experiences shaped them 
• Self-help and personal development enthusiasts who enjoy psychology, mindfulness, and growth-oriented content with practical tools
• Anyone facing fear about taking risks or making changes

The Magic of Mindful Self Awareness (2025) teaches readers how to achieve unconditional happiness through mindful presence.  It provides practical techniques for stopping overthinking, clearing unwanted thoughts, transforming negative emotions into compassion, and discovering one's true self – the part that remains peaceful even during life's most challenging moments.

• Anxious overthinkers who want to escape mental loops
• Busy professionals looking to find inner peace without adding to their schedules
• Anyone seeking deep fulfilment and lasting peace

Aflame (2025) shows how the deepest answers to life’s questions come from sitting quietly in the fire of silence. It takes us on a journey into a remote monastery where silence reveals unexpected connections, inner peace, and the fierce joy of simply being. It’s a powerful invitation to discover how stillness can light up our lives in ways we never imagined.

• Anyone seeking more peace and clarity in life
• People interested in spirituality beyond traditional religion
• Philosophical folks wrestling with questions about connection and purpose

A High-Performing Mind (2024) is a practical and energising guide that shows how to train your mind to be more focused, resilient, and effective under pressure. It explores how to build mental habits that support confidence, clarity, and long-term success in everyday life. It offers a toolkit for anyone who wants to overcome setbacks, perform at their best, and feel more in control of their thoughts, emotions, and outcomes.

• Anyone feeling stuck in a personal or professional rut
• People who want to sharpen focus and boost performance
• High achievers looking to level up their mindset

How to Be a Living Thing (2025) explores what animals can teach us about being human. It blends personal reflection with stories of creatures from orcas to oysters, showing how their instincts and behaviors mirror our own struggles and joys. It invites you to see connection, resilience, and wonder as part of your everyday life.

• Animal lovers seeking deeper meaning in human life
• Anyone interested in philosophy, spirituality, and self discovery
• People exploring empathy, disability, and social awareness

The Little Book of Stoicism (2019) is an accessible guide to the ancient Greco-Roman philosophy. By applying the core principles of Stoicism to your everyday life, you can become more emotionally resilient, and thrive no matter what.

• Would-be Stoics
• People who are interested in the practical side of philosophy
• Anyone who’s facing challenges in their life

Move. Think. Rest. (2025) explores how embracing movement, thought, and restoration can unlock creativity and innovation in everyday work and life. It shows that true productivity is less about constant activity and more about intentionally cycling between execution, imagination, and renewal, offering a framework for harnessing these rhythms to generate fresh ideas and approach challenges with greater clarity.

• Anyone struggling with burnout
• Corporate leaders seeking to boost productivity and innovation 
• Educators designing more engaging learning environments

Finding Focus (2025) is a roadmap for taking back control of your mind in a world that never stops tugging at it. It explains how we can quiet the chaos, strengthen our attention, and reconnect with what really matters. It’s an invitation to slow down, think clearer, and live with more intention – one focused moment at a time.

• Busy professionals
• Wellness seekers interested in holistic habits that sharpen the mind
• Anyone feeling overwhelmed or mentally scattered

Digital Exhaustion (2025) explores how everyday digital tools quietly drain your energy by fragmenting attention, distorting social inferences, and amplifying emotional strain. It lays out eight practical rules for reshaping how you use technology so you can reduce burnout, regain focus, and turn your devices into a source of support rather than exhaustion.

• Busy professionals overwhelmed by digital communication and tools
• Leaders and HR teams shaping health tech cultures
• Students and lifelong learners struggling with distraction and burnout

Read Your Mind (2025) reveals how the mindset of a world-class mentalist can help you unlock your potential by turning your attention inward, breaking through mental blocks, and strengthening your memory and emotional intelligence. You’ll also learn practical habits for connecting more deeply, communicating persuasively, and succeeding when the stakes are high.

• Entrepreneurs and business professionals in high-stakes environments
• Leaders, managers, and aspiring influencers at work
• Individuals seeking greater confidence focus and self-mastery

The Overthinker’s Guide to Making Decisions (2025) explores why many people get stuck in loops of analysis and doubt, and shows how overthinking often stems from deeper fears and misunderstandings about control, certainty, and failure. It explains how to shift from mental noise to inner clarity so you can make everyday and life-changing decisions with more confidence, ease, and trust in your own judgment.

• Chronically indecisive professionals facing major career choices
• Anxious perfectionists stuck in everyday decision loops
• Thoughtful people seeking a calmer inner compass

52 Weeks of Wellbeing (2024) explores how to build a healthier, more fulfilling work life through 52 small, practical changes spread across a year. It focuses on simple, research-backed ideas – like improving boundaries, rest, movement and digital habits – that help people protect their mental health and thrive in modern, high-pressure workplaces.

• Overworked corporate professionals seeking better work-life balance
• Forward-thinking HR and wellbeing leaders improving workplace culture
• Health-conscious people wanting practical weekly wellbeing habits

The View from Ninety (2025) is a collection of final essays written while facing mortality after a stroke. It distills nine decades of experience into reflections on what truly matters – distinguishing the important from merely serious, measuring success in relationships rather than wealth, and finding peace with the natural cycle of life and death. It offers practical lessons for living contentedly when all pretense falls away and only essentials remain.

• Professionals reimagining work and redefining success
• People in their later years seeking wisdom
• Anyone facing significant life changes or transitions

Hope Is the Strategy (2026) explores why so many corporate well-being programs fall short: they focus on symptoms while ignoring the structural causes of burnout and depletion. It reframes leadership, performance, and organizational design around human flourishing, offering frameworks for building healthier systems of work. Part sharp critique, part practical guide, it’s a call to action for individuals, leaders, and organizations ready to put well-being at the center of how they operate and grow.

• Leaders aiming for high team performance without the burnout
• HR professionals who put people at the heart of their strategy
• Depleted high achievers reclaiming their professional purpose

AQ (2026) introduces a new intelligence measure: the Agility Quotient, or AQ. AQ is intelligence for today. High AQ individuals handle change productively, innovate in volatile conditions, and thrive amid uncertainty. In a world where jobs disappear overnight and industries are constantly shifting, a high AQ provides a critical edge.

• Leaders who need to navigate fast-paced, fast-changing situations
• Creatives and entrepreneurs who need to adapt to stay ahead of the game
• Perfectionists whose fear of failure is inhibiting their agility

Cheers to Monday (2026) argues that chronic stress isn’t an inevitable part of working life but a systemic problem with a practical solution. It lays out a three-step framework – See, Sort, and Solve – for identifying what’s driving your stress, categorising it, and taking the right action. It also makes the case that reducing stress isn’t just good for your health; it’s what creates the conditions for joy to become a genuine part of your working life.

• Professionals who feel burned out or close to it
• Anyone who’s confused overwork with achievement
• People who have lost sight of what brings them joy

The Ambition Trap (2025) takes an insightful look at the hidden forces driving your success, and asks whether they’re actually serving you. It serves as a wake-up call to anyone who’s felt caught between striving for more and craving peace. It also offers a roadmap for redefining ambition on your own terms and how to pursue big goals without losing yourself along the way.

• High achievers who are feeling burned out, restless, or disconnected from their work
• Women, people of color, LGBTQIA+ folks, and other historically excluded leaders
• Entrepreneurs and founders who are questioning the sustainability of hustle culture

Work Happier (2025) makes the case that workplace happiness is neither a luxury nor a matter of luck, but a right that every worker can measure, pursue, and claim. Built around six evidence-based drivers of employee happiness, it gives anyone from the shop floor to the boardroom the tools to take control of their own working life.

• People considering a job change who want to be sure they’re solving the right problem before making a move
• Workers in high-pressure or high-hours cultures who’ve normalized exhaustion
• Anyone who recognizes that their own happiness at work directly shapes the environment around them

The Art of Conscious Conversations (2022) examines how the conversations you have daily determine the quality of your relationships and your success. It identifies four distinct conversation types – storytelling, collaborative, creative, and commitment – each serving a different purpose and requiring specific skills to manage effectively. By recognizing the stories and mental habits that derail, it shows how you can transform autopilot patterns toward authentic connection and meaningful results.

• Corporate managers and team leaders
• Sales and business development professionals
• Conflict mediators and communication specialists

Make Your Brain Work (2013) is a practical guide to understanding the brain's key systems and how they shape focus, habits, and decision-making. Grounded in neuroscience, it shows how working with your brain's natural architecture rather than against it can transform productivity, emotional regulation, and goal achievement. 

• Those who struggle with organization, bad habits, or emotional dysregulation
• Curious minds wanting to know more about how brain function impacts daily life
• Anyone who wants to achieve more with less effort and work with their brain, not against it

Time Anxiety (2025) tackles one of the most pervasive problems of modern life – the feeling that time is constantly running out and that you’re always behind. It draws on research into time perception, cognitive patterns, and the psychology of avoidance to offer a practical and philosophical path toward a calmer, more purposeful relationship with time.

• Perfectionists who can’t stop chasing an impossible standard
• Productivity addicts still waiting to feel on top of things
• High achievers who’ve confused being busy with living well

The Playful Way (2026) argues that playfulness helps us navigate challenges with more creativity and joy. Humor, curiosity, and compassion, it shows, make us feel more connected. Packed with insights drawn from everyday life and practical exercises, it encourages us to embrace openness and experimentation.

• People tired of constant stress and overthinking

• Creative types stuck in rigid routines

• Anyone craving more joy and spontaneity

The Courage to Commit (2026) shows how dedicating yourself fully to one path creates a rare kind of calm, joy, and skill. You'll find actionable frameworks for designing a physical environment that makes quitting inconvenient and success nearly automatic. And you'll see how embracing the boring, repetitive middle turns passing interest into genuine expertise and lasting meaning.

• Professionals struggling with constant decision fatigue and burnout
• Athletes and creatives aiming to push through frustrating plateaus
• Individuals looking to build deeper connections in their relationships

Fit Mind (2026) explores how the untrained mind spends much of its time replaying old painful memories, spinning needless worry, and running an almost constant stream of inner chatter. It offers a way out through a simple, repeatable meditation method drawn from decades of contemplative training. It shows how you can quiet your mind's habitual noise and access states of lasting calm and altered perception, regardless of your experience.

• Meditators seeking a clearer scientific framework
• Professionals struggling to switch off after work
• Skeptics curious about the neuroscience behind meditation

All the Feels (2026) argues that our devices are no longer separate from our inner lives; they are actively reshaping how we feel and express emotion. There is an advent of new, tech-inflected emotion, from doomscrolling rage and read-receipt anxiety to the friend-like warmth we extend to Siri and Alexa. We need a toolkit for living alongside our devices, harnessing digital technology for a healthier, more emotionally rich life both online and off. 

• Doomscrollers who want to reclaim their feed-hijacked moods
• Phone addicts who need to understand screen time’s hidden opportunity cost
• Digital detoxers who are ready to let tech into their lives in positive ways

A Little More Social (2026) explores how small everyday choices to connect with others can improve happiness, health, and a sense of belonging. It explains why people often underestimate how rewarding social interactions will be and shows how simple acts like starting a conversation, reaching out, or spending time with others can have surprisingly meaningful effects.

• Socially anxious adults seeking easier connection
• Curious professionals improving workplace relationships
• Lonely people wanting more everyday belonging