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Eat That Frog! is all about overcoming procrastination and learning to manage your time. It’s normal to feel drowned in work, but when you learn to “eat your frogs” – meaning do your most important tasks first – you’ll work more efficiently and be happier too.

• Procrastinators anonymous
• Anyone with a goal to achieve
• Those overwhelmed by all the work they have to do

Triggers (2015) exposes the things in your life that you didn’t know were affecting you – and what you can do to stop these things from preventing you making positive change. Backed up with insightful research and filled with the experiences of the author and his clients, these blinks will help you eliminate unwanted behaviors and put you on the path to achieving your personal goals.

• Those who want to make their new health regimes last
• Professionals looking to up their motivation game
• Anyone interested in salvaging those forgotten New Year’s resolutions

Revealing business wisdom through a modern parable, Who Moved My Cheese (1998) offers valuable lessons on how to best manage change in your life. Whether you’re struggling amid a business downturn or trying to find a graceful way to handle a struggling relationship, this book gives you the tools to better understand human nature and see change as a positive force.

• Entrepreneurs looking for a better way to manage change at work
• People struggling with personal relationships
• Employees dealing with layoffs or other corporate changes

Singletasking (2015) tackles some of the common myths surrounding multitasking and productivity. Full of practical advice and tricks to help you get more from your day, Singletasking clearly demonstrates how immersive focus on a single task leads to a more efficient, and ultimately happier, life.

• Anyone who wants to become more productive
• Anyone who wants to feel less stressed
• People who have a hard time getting things done

Eat, Move, Sleep (2013) offers simple tips for improving your health and well-being in some very important ways. You don’t have to revolutionize your lifestyle to get in shape and increase your energy levels – little changes can make a big difference, and these blinks will show you how.

• Anyone hoping to lead a healthier lifestyle
• Workaholics struggling to improve their work-life balance
• People with stressful jobs and packed daily routines

These blinks are about the importance of a basic human necessity that we often brush aside: sleep. Getting enough sleep isn’t just about feeling better in the morning – it improves your work performance, health and even your personal relationships. Similarly, sleep deprivation isn’t a by-product of hard work; rather, it prevents you from reaching your full potential. The Sleep Revolution (2016) explains why sleep is so critical, and what you can do to get more of it.

• Anyone who gets sleepy at work or school
• Parents and teachers who aren’t getting enough rest
• Athletes wanting to reach their peak performance

Get Smart! (2016) offers a variety of tips on how to tap into your unused brainpower and live a happier, more successful life. With a change in your perspective, and an outlook based on long-term positivity, you can discover how to get great results out of life and turn any challenge into an opportunity.

• Autodidacts looking for a learning opportunity
• Unhappy people hoping to improve their lives
• Creative and ambitious people hoping to be more productive

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

The Bullet Journal Method (2018) by Ryder Carroll breaks down bullet journaling: the planning and productivity system your most organized friend is definitely already using. Use bullet journaling to clarify, prioritize, schedule, and reflect on your tasks and goals. You’ll never miss an appointment or lose track of a great idea again. 

• People who write to-do lists but never seem to finish them
• Productivity pros keen to try the system that’s revolutionized personal planning
• Dreamers who want to turn vague plans into a reality

The Motivation Myth (2018) debunks the idea that you need motivation for success. Drawing on the author’s own experiences and examples from high achievers across a range of fields, it shows you how to cultivate a process to reach your goals and enjoy fulfillment along the way.

• Managers, parents, and students who feel unmotivated
• Entrepreneurs who want to start a business
• Anyone interested in picking up a new sport

Goals! (2003) explores the power of goal-setting. It outlines tips and techniques for achieving your most important aims in life and examines the link between goal-setting and success.

• Anyone wanting to achieve more in life
• Entrepreneurs looking for inspiration
• Procrastinators hoping to get more done

Courage is Calling (2021) is both a meditation on bravery and a guide to courageousness. From how to dispel your fears to the benefits of taking small steps first, it gives concrete advice for building courage, and lays out, in writing rich with anecdotes, the simple ways that each of us can become a little bit braver.

• Scaredy-cats in need of a strong dose of daring
• The already-courageous who want to become even braver
• Anyone interested in how courage has shaped history

Do What Matters Most (2021) is a guide to managing your time more efficiently. It will help you boost performance and stay focused on what matters most. This pack offers a whole bag of tricks, such as developing a personal vision, setting annual goals, and following a weekly list of priorities.

• Executives and managers who want to become better leaders
• Employees and professionals who want to boost productivity
• People seeking a step-by-step process for time management

The Alter Ego Effect (2019) is a guide to achieving your goals through the use of alter egos. Featuring numerous examples of successful people who have created alter egos, it offers clear, practical strategies for success in every area of life.

• Frustrated creatives seeking to improve their performance
• People who are curious about identity and the concept of alter egos
• Clark Kents ready for their phone booth transformation

Turning Pro (2012) sheds a light on why so many aspiring creatives and entrepreneurs fail to make their dreams a reality. It also explains how, by making a conscious decision to pursue your goals and reconfiguring your life, you can finally gain traction and embrace your true calling.

• Aspiring artists with big dreams
• Frustrated writers who struggle with productivity
• Closet creatives who wish they had more courage

How to Change (2021) is a simple guide to overcoming the obstacles that prevent you from achieving your goals. It diagnoses our most persistent problems, from laziness to impulsivity, and presents a number of research-backed solutions to each one.

• Serial procrastinators who can never get things done
• Anyone whose bad habits interfere with their aims
• People who’ve lost confidence in their ability to change

Living Beyond “What If?” (2021) is an empathetic handbook to realizing your dreams. It shares intimate, affecting anecdotes and sets out a step-by-step guide to overcoming your fears and achieving success.

• People struggling to get over a particular fear or blockage
• Those who want to reinvent themselves but don’t know how
• Anyone looking to level-up their life

Everyday Vitality (2021) explores how we can cultivate resilience while juggling the small, nonstop stresses of everyday life. Those who thrive do so because they build vitality, a force of power and flexibility that allows them to handle difficulties. The people who cope best are the ones who find ways to turn their stress into strength through intentionality, purpose, and connection.

• Anyone looking to alleviate stress in their daily lives
• People interested in improving their quality of life
• Those who are interested in achieving peace amid busyness

In Letters to a Young Athlete (2021), basketball legend Chris Bosh shares the wisdom he earned through his remarkable career. Bosh shows us that true excellence requires deep motivation, mastery of self, and a commitment to something far greater than money or fame.

• Young athletes
• Their teachers, coaches, and parents
• Anyone who wants to know what it takes to be a champion

Who Not How (2020) introduces a new way of thinking about entrepreneurship, goal setting, and collaboration. Developed by business coach Dan Sullivan, the Who Not How mindset shows the importance of delegating tasks to others. By inviting them to help you achieve your goals, you’ll gain more free time, increase your income, and develop valuable, lasting professional relationships.

• Aspiring entrepreneurs looking to realize a business idea
• Burned-out professionals with a desire for more free time
• Perfectionists on the hunt for procrastination cures

Endure (2022) is Cameron Hanes’ inspirational story of strength, perseverance, and becoming the greatest bowhunter in the world. Drawing on the author’s anecdotes and life philosophies, it shows that anyone has the capacity to push their limits and be the best that they can be.

• Extreme sports enthusiasts looking for inspiration from the greatest in the field
• Adrenaline junkies who need that motivational push to take things just a little bit further
• The lost or directionless who want to get more out of life and themselves

Surrounded by Setbacks (2021) is a practical guide to achieving your goals despite the obstacles you will inevitably meet along the way. We all experience setbacks in our lives. Some of them will be minor and fixable, while others will be completely outside of our control. But by learning to manage your responses to all kinds of adversity, by taking complete responsibility for your life, and being stubbornly persistent in your approach, you can achieve your dreams.

• Determined dreamers ready to achieve their goals 
• Disappointed career professionals wondering why their hard work hasn’t paid off yet
• Restless renegades who want to stop living according to society’s expectations

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

The Power of Pressure (2021) takes a deep dive into the world of pressure in all its forms, and how high performers deal with it. By noticing the patterns of both single, peak pressure moments and pressure over the long haul, it’ll provide you with a practical set of tools to start using pressure to your advantage.

• Workers feeling overwhelmed by the daily grind
• Productivity hackers looking to boost performance under pressure
• Anyone who has ever been stressed out

The Art of Possibility (2000) provides a series of strategies that will invite possibility into every aspect of your life. By putting these strategies into practice, you can fuel your creativity, enhance your problem-solving skills, and deepen your relationships with others.

• Modern thinkers looking for new solutions to old problems
• Seekers hoping for more abundance in their lives
• Anyone interested in learning how to transcend their limitations

The Alchemist (1988) follows the story of a young Andalusian shepherd, who travels to the pyramids of Egypt to find a treasure he has recurrently dreamed about. On his journey, he has to overcome multiple obstacles – through which he learns valuable life lessons. Based on a thirteenth-century folktale, it explores topics such as following your dreams, finding your destiny, and the nature of love.

• People who want to become more resilient
• Anyone with a dream or passion
• Those who wish to find their own purpose in life 

Get It Done (2022) turns the spotlight on the person that’s often hardest to influence: you. Drawing on anecdotes and research from motivation science, it shows how modifying your circumstances can propel you forward both personally and professionally – even when you feel lost at sea.

• People who want to be more productive at work or home
• Those wondering how to persevere in the face of adversity
• Anyone seeking clearheadedness in a chaotic world

Influence is your Superpower (2022) is a deep dive on influence: how it works, why it's important, and how you can wield it for ethical, positive results. It explores how influence operates by drawing on insights from cognitive science, linguistics, market research, and more, empowering readers to unlock their own natural powers of influence.

• Entrepreneurs who want to pitch ideas without sales-y sleaze
• Employees who want to advocate better for themselves and others
• Activists who want to create lasting change in their communities

The Pursuit of Excellence (2022) offers a thoughtful approach on how to become the best, most excellent version of yourself. Compiling wisdom from hundreds of interviews with world renowned experts and entrepreneurs, the author lays out the best habits and practices that anyone can use to improve their career and their lives.

• Anyone eager to raise their game and find more satisfaction in life
• People looking for tips on how to achieve more in their career
• Leaders and entrepreneurs eager to perform better

The 6 Phase Meditation Method (2022) is a ground-breaking transformational guide divided into six distinct phases. In as little as 20 minutes, you can reclaim your life and reap the many practical benefits of meditation.

• Failed meditation experimenters
• Time-poor self-improvers
• Mental-fitness geeks

Be Your Future Self Now (2022) is a guide to defining your future self – and making sure you get there. It walks readers through the seven threats to your future self, the seven truths about your future self, and the seven steps you can take to be your future self today. 

• Those ready to take their careers and lives to the next level
• Individuals seeking clarity on their future
• Anyone frustrated by unsuccessful New Year’s resolutions

The Power of Unwavering Focus (2022) is a practical and personal guide that offers clear steps toward ending the distractions, fears, and worries that keep us stressed out and anxious, while carving a clear path toward more mental clarity and focus. Packed with concrete steps and personal reflections, it offers a deep look into the awesome power of the mind and how focus can help everyone live a more purposeful and joyful life.

• Exhausted multitaskers feeling lost in the grind
• Goal-seekers looking for a clearer path to success
• Anyone wanting to live with more purpose in daily life

One Small Step Can Change Your Life (2004) is a practical self-help guide inspired by the concept of kaizen – change through small steps. It suggests a variety of simple techniques that can help anyone improve their lives and make lasting changes, one small step at a time.

• People struggling to achieve their health goals
• Writers, artists, or other creatives who feel blocked
• Anyone who’s feeling pessimistic or demotivated

Evolve Your Brain (2007) dives deep into the human brain and its structures. It demonstrates the power of neuroplasticity to change thinking, behavior, and biology.

• Curious minds who are, well, curious about their minds
• Self-help fans seeking brain-based advice on achieving their goals
• Anyone with a brain wondering why it didn’t come with an owner’s manual

Cluttered Mess to Organized Success (2018) is a powerful organizational guide full of advice and actionable tips to help you better organize your life and home.

• Parents who want to get their families more organized
• People seeking to manage their time better
• Busy professionals craving a cleaner, calmer home

The Everyday Hero Manifesto (2021) is a how-to primer for becoming the hero of your own life. It’s full of detailed plans interspersed with short essays, anecdotes, and even poetry to help you become happier, more productive, and more successful.

• Anyone stuck in a rut
• Go-getters looking to improve their career trajectory
• Self-improvement seekers searching for practical guides and techniques

Discipline Is Destiny (2022) draws on Stoic virtues to make a case for a life guided by self-discipline. It shows how being in control of your body, thoughts, and emotions is a prerequisite to mastering anything else – and uses historical figures to illustrate how things like sleep, discomfort, and kindness tie into greatness. 

• Frazzled folks looking for more structure in their lives
• Go-getters who want to optimize their time and energy
• Anyone seeking actionable steps to improve their happiness and well-being

Never Finished (2022) is your guide to transforming into the person you never imagined you could be. It shares stories of setbacks and lessons learned that you can use to power through life's unending challenges.

• Injured athletes looking for motivation
• Midlifers seeking a challenge
• Anyone seeking to maximize their potential

Exactly What to Say (2017) is designed to provide you with the key phrases and words to make your conversations count and bring you success. It contains magic words. Words that are heard and interpreted by the subconscious mind. Words which will help you get the results you want.

• Anyone interested in how words can influence others at a subconscious level
• Success-driven individuals who want to up their game
• Entrepreneurs who want to get their prospects to say yes more often

Do Hard Things (2022) explodes mythologies around the popular conception of toughness. It shows how traditional markers of toughness, like putting on a brave face and pushing past pain, can actually hinder physical and mental performance outcomes in the long term. Instead, real resilience comes from listening to your body and embracing your emotions.

• Employees who need resilience to succeed in challenging, high-stress roles;
• Athletes and fitness fans wanting to build physical and mental fortitude;
• Anyone who wants to face challenges with authentic toughness.

8 Secrets to Powerful Manifesting (2022) offers an eight-step approach to increasing your self-awareness, raising your energetic vibration, and bringing about your heart’s truest desires. 

• Anyone who wants to live more abundantly
• People frustrated about unfulfilled dreams
• Manifestors who aren’t seeing results as quickly as they’d like

Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself (2012) shows you how to tap into your mind's unlimited potential and transform your life from the inside out. Get ready to break free from limiting beliefs and negative thought patterns and become the master of your destiny.

• Aspiring mind benders
• Change seekers
• Wellness warriors

The Universe Has Your Back (2016) is a practical guide to transforming your fear into faith. It shares personal stories, lessons, and a range of exercises to help you relinquish control and start realigning with the abundant love and wisdom of the Universe. 

• Spiritual seekers
• Those striving to manifest a specific goal
• Individuals feeling afraid, lost, or stuck 

No More Mr. Nice Guy (2000) is the Nice Guy’s guide to recovery. Learn how to stop seeking the approval of others, live your life the way you want to, and ultimately get the love, life, and sex that you crave but that your Nice Guy Syndrome actually stops you from achieving.

• Men who want to take control of their lives
• Men who want to find love – and with it, good sex
• Women who want to help their Nice Guy become the man they really want

Power vs. Force (2014) explains how anyone can tap into their inner power to change their lives and the lives of those around them. It demonstrates that with consciousness, intention and discernment, anyone can find their truth and follow it toward a more fulfilled and impactful life. 

• People interested in alternative theories about science and humanity
• Anyone who faces major doubts in their lives
• Humanity nerds

The Power of Discipline (2020) explores the biological tendencies within our brains that determine our ability to control our self-discipline. It shows us how we can refine these tendencies in order to develop improved self-disciplinary habits and reach our goals.

• Anyone lacking some self-discipline in their lives
• Those who need to ditch their bad habits
• Goal-setters looking for advice on how to be an achiever

The Art of Manifesting (2023) is a handy guide to the practice of manifesting, or bringing the life you envision into reality. Packed with actionable advice and easy exercises, it shows how you can start to tune into the universe and transform your life. 

• Anyone looking to change their life
• People curious about what manifesting is 
• Those who know about manifesting and want to improve

Smarter Not Harder (2023) is a guide to biohacking your metabolic, neurological, and epigenetic systems. It will show you how to maximize your well-being by making your Meat Operating System, or MeatOS, do what you want it to do by doing less – by doing things smarter, not harder.

• Lazy people who want to make their laziness work for them
• Anyone looking to improve their well-being
• Tired people looking for more energy

How Big Things Get Done (2023) explores what it takes to make large-scale projects work. It tackles tough questions like why so many big projects fail, and what makes the ones that succeed stand out from the rest. With real-life success stories as well as cautionary tales, its lessons can be applied to projects of any size, shape, or form. 

• Project managers looking to hone in their skills
• Anyone about to embark on a new project or start a new business
• Fans of Elon Musk wanting to learn how he works his magic

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens (2011) invites teenagers to begin taking charge of their lives by teaching them seven habits that help them thrive and will set them up for a successful future. 

• Parents and guardians of teens
• Teachers and other role models
• Leadership coaches

Baby Steps Millionaires (2022) is a straightforward, practical guide to how anyone can become a millionaire. It lays out seven simple steps that you can follow to get yourself out of debt, grow your net worth, and improve your life. 

• Anyone who wants to make money
• People struggling with mounting debts
• Generous souls who want to be able to give more

The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication (2023) addresses the fear of public speaking. It offers tried-and-true techniques that can transform any beginner or average speaker into a trusted and effective communicator.

• Anyone trying to improve their communication skills
• Speakers addressing anyone from small groups to stadium crowds
• Leaders and organizers looking to inspire their teams

Coaching for Performance (2009) is the foundational text which launched the multimillion-dollar business coaching industry. The 25th anniversary edition brings new life to the hallmark GROW model, and revisits the methods after a quarter-century of learning in performance coaching. It’s essential for leaders and coaches globally.

• Leaders looking for inspiration
• Coaches who want to understand the performance coaching method
• Anyone looking to improve the performance of their team

The 12-week Fitness Project (2021) offers an alternative to restrictive diets that addresses health beyond the scale, creating sustainable change that draws on time-tested wisdom to improve overall well-being.

• Frustrated dieters wondering why restriction seems to work against them
• Wellness seekers looking for better sleep, more energy and better digestion
• Those looking to incorporate more variety in their diets while creating sustainable lifestyle change

10x Is Easier Than 2x (2023) is part call to action, part step-by-step guide to a life beyond your wildest dreams. You’ll first be introduced to why 10x is simpler, better, and more fun than 2x, then given a clear road map for immediate implementation.

• Burned-out entrepreneurs and business leaders  
• High achievers wanting to take their personal and professional lives to the next level
• Anyone seeking direction or motivation

The 50th Law (2009) focuses on fear philosophy as a catalyst for success. Drawing inspiration from corporate strategies, historical figures, and hip-hop artist 50 Cent – or Curtis Jackson, 50 Cent is his professional name – it encourages brutal realism and a bold mindset to succeed everywhere, from back alleys to the boardroom.

• Creative Mavericks
• Ambitious Entrepreneurs
• Urban culture enthusiasts

You Were Born Rich (2007) delves into the idea that every person is born with the potential and capacity to lead a rich life, not just in terms of financial wealth but in all areas of life. Inner beliefs and mindsets shape external experiences, and by transforming these inner structures, one can truly realize their innate potential. Every person has the innate capability to manifest their desires and create the life they dream of.

• Individuals facing personal challenges who wish to transform their mindset for better outcomes
• Entrepreneurs wanting to harness the power of mindset to drive business growth
• Career professionals in finance or business looking to understand the interplay between mindset and monetary success

Passive Income, Aggressive Retirement (2019) is a roadmap to financial freedom through diversified income streams like real estate, stocks, and other forms of passive income. As traditional retirement plans become outdated, financial independence emerges as the new goal. Discover the tools to craft your prosperous financial narrative.

• Aspiring entrepreneurs seeking guidance on diversifying their income streams
• Millennial professionals aiming to achieve financial independence before traditional retirement age
• Personal finance enthusiasts eager to explore various avenues of wealth generation

The Outsiders (2012) upends conventional notions of what makes a successful CEO. It offers detailed profiles of eight out-of-left-field business leaders and shares key learnings from their groundbreaking, original, and surprising strategies.

• Managers and executives looking beyond conventional business wisdom
• Early career employees with CEO-sized ambitions
• Anyone looking to inject creativity into their leadership style

Unscripted (2017) exposes societal norms and stories that often trap individuals in unfulfilling lives, mediocrity, and financial dependency. It emphasizes entrepreneurship as a vehicle for breaking free from these constraints, and provides principles for creating a business that generates explosive wealth and life-changing outcomes.

• Aspiring entrepreneurs seeking guidance on how to quickly achieve financial freedom
• Anyone feeling trapped in the 9-to-5 grind
• Individuals interested in pursuing an early retirement strategy

Level Up (2023) is a practical guide to help you move from inaction to taking focused steps to achieve your goals and dreams. It reveals the reasons behind inaction and offers strategies to stop spinning your wheels and start taking meaningful action.  

• Individuals seeking practical strategies to overcome inaction.
• People aspiring to improve focus and productivity.
• Anyone interested in personal development and self-improvement.

The Science of Self-Discipline (2019) explores what really drives consistent action and why motivation alone never lasts. It explains the biological and psychological forces behind willpower, showing how to strengthen your self-control through habits, mindset, and environment. Drawing on research and real-world examples, it reveals how to manage temptation, conserve mental energy, and build the discipline to stay focused and follow through on what matters most.

• Busy professionals and leaders improving their focus and accountability
• Students and early career professionals mastering habits
• Creators and health enthusiasts seeking consistent performance

Feel-Good Productivity (2023) presents an unconventional approach to getting more done: prioritizing enjoyment and well-being. Through the dual lens of science and philosophy, it explains why we struggle with low energy, procrastination, and burnout, then offers a series of fun mini-experiments to help you boost your mood, output, and ultimately, success.

• High-achievers seeking a more balanced approach to work and life
• Entrepreneurially-minded students and professionals
• Anyone interested in holistic lifestyle design

Think Remarkable (2023) is a transformative guide to unlocking your full potential and living an extraordinary life. It draws on the wisdom and insights of remarkable individuals to provide a blueprint for personal growth and success.

• Students aiming to develop the skills and mindset needed for success
• Anyone feeling stuck in a rut and wanting to break free from mediocrity
• Those seeking inspiration and guidance from the world’s most remarkable people

Manifest (2022) explores the transformative power of manifesting to help you achieve your personal and professional goals. Designed to help you harness your desires and make meaningful changes in your life, this seven-step program will empower you to turn your best life into reality. 

• Individuals interested in personal development and self-improvement
• Aspiring entrepreneurs seeking motivation and direction
• Anyone curious about manifesting 

Focal Point (2022) delves into the secrets of high achievers, revealing how they identify their focal point to achieve optimal results in various aspects of their lives. It offers a comprehensive guide to personal management, helping you analyze your life, set focused goals, and create plans for success, ultimately achieving both professional success and personal satisfaction.

• Time management and productivity enthusiasts
• Career-driven individuals seeking work-life balance
• Business leaders, entrepreneurs, and potential high achievers

You Only Die Once (2023) is a motivational guide that encourages people to make the most of their remaining time on Earth. Drawing from positive psychology principles, it offers practical advice and inspiring stories to help you pursue your passions, find meaning, and live life to the fullest.

• People seeking to boost their sense of passion, purpose, and engagement
• Those nearing the end of life who want to make the most of their remaining time
• Anyone interested in personal growth, self-reflection, and living intentionally

Help Me, I Have No Discipline and Zero Self-Control (2024) offers a roadmap to self-discipline for those who struggle with procrastination and unfulfilled goals. This guide aims to transform you from a daydreamer into an action taker, offering practical strategies from time management to burnout prevention, while explaining how to cultivate motivation and resilience.

• Chronic procrastinators looking to break the cycle of delayed action
• Goal-setters who struggle to follow through on their plans
• Students aiming to balance academic, personal, and social responsibilities

How to Retire (2024) offers a detailed guide to building a financially secure and fulfilling retirement. It covers essential strategies like managing investments, maximizing Social Security benefits, and preparing for long-term care. Alongside financial advice, it emphasizes the importance of maintaining health, nurturing relationships, and finding purpose, helping you approach retirement with confidence and balance.

• Retirees seeking financial stability and fulfilling life choices
• Pre-retirees preparing for long-term financial and lifestyle planning
• Women planning for retirement and long-term care needs

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

Rethinking Positive Thinking (2014) challenges the widespread belief that positive thinking alone leads to success. It introduces a new approach called mental contrasting, which combines optimistic dreaming with a clear-eyed view of obstacles, allowing people to achieve their goals more effectively.

• Self-help enthusiasts who feel stuck
• Goal-setters frustrated by lack of progress despite positive attitudes
• Coaches seeking evidence-based techniques for their clients

Why We Do What We Do (1995) explores the science of human motivation, focusing on what drives people to act and how external influences shape their behavior. Whether you’re a parent, teacher, manager, or simply curious about human behavior, it offers transformative insights into fostering growth, collaboration, and authentic success in every area of life. 

• Parents, teachers and managers
• Self-development enthusiasts
• Psychology buffs

Make Today Count (2004) presents a comprehensive system for transforming ordinary days into extraordinary achievements by mastering twelve essential elements of daily life. Through practical guidance on attitude, priorities, health, relationships, and values, it shows how good decisions paired with consistent daily actions create lasting positive change. When these elements work together, small steps build into significant and meaningful progress.

• Personal development enthusiasts interested in practical systems for growth
• Busy executives seeking to optimize their daily schedule
• Anyone seeking to create more structured and meaningful days

Take the Stairs (2012) presents a practical guide to achieving success by embracing self-discipline and focus rather than relying on shortcuts and quick fixes. It outlines a simple program for resisting distractions, overcoming procrastination, and pushing past setbacks to achieve long-term goals. The proven approach encourages you to tackle challenges step by step to build lasting success.

• Individuals seeking personal development and self-discipline
• Young professionals looking for career growth
• Entrepreneurs and students striving for success

Tiny Experiments (2025) challenges traditional goal-setting by advocating for a playful, experimental approach to your personal growth. It encourages you to embrace uncertainty through small, low-risk experiments that promote self-discovery and adaptability. By shifting away from rigid objectives, it will help you cultivate a more fulfilling and dynamic way of living.

• Curious experimenters seeking a flexible approach to growth
• Creative thinkers interested in exploring new possibilities
• Open-minded people willing to embrace uncertainty and change

In Getting Things Done (2001), David Allen introduces his famous system for stress-free productivity. With this system, you can face an overwhelming amount of things to do, but still be productive, creative and relaxed as you tackle them.

Why you should care: Learn to do more and stress less.

• Anyone who feels stressed or overworked
• Anyone who wants to be productive in their work and personal lives
• Anyone curious about the widely acclaimed Getting Things Done method

The Wealth Ladder (2025) reveals why most financial advice fails: it doesn’t adapt as your circumstances change. What works when you’re scraping by won’t help as much once you’ve built savings or boosted your income. This is a guide to knowing what to focus on – when to spend, when to save, when to invest, and when to stop trading time for money – so you can build wealth with strategy, not guesswork.

• Anyone climbing out of living paycheck to paycheck
• Investors looking to scale their wealth smartly
• Happiness-seekers looking to leverage their money for what really matters

The Compass Within (2025) follows Jamie Hynes, a fictional manager on a journey to uncover his core values. His search reveals how deeply values shape decisions in three essential aspects of life – relationships, career, and community – and how misalignment across these areas can jeopardize lasting success and happiness. Through Jamie’s story, we’re invited to reflect on our own values and use them as a compass for building a purposeful and fulfilling life.

• Ambitious professionals feeling unfulfilled and seeking a new direction
• Individuals seeking clarity on major life and career decisions
• New managers struggling to find an authentic leadership style

How to Be Free (2025) is a guide to breaking internal and external barriers to personal liberation. It draws on hard-earned lessons learned over nearly two decades in prison, showing how practices like self-reflection, discipline, and emotional healing can shift thinking from survival to freedom. It offers practical tools for building resilience, reclaiming joy, and creating a life aligned with personal values and purpose.

• People seeking personal growth and self-liberation
• Leaders wanting to build resilience and empathy
• Readers interested in transformation through adversity

The Art of Action (2010) looks at why organizations so often fall short between what they plan, what they do, and what happens as a result. Drawing on lessons from nineteenth-century Prussian military strategy, it argues that leaders should set clear intent and then empower teams instead of trying to control every move. The approach focuses on three big gaps – knowledge, alignment, and effects – that show up in complex, uncertain environments where traditional planning breaks down.

• Leaders struggling to turn strategic plans into real results
• Managers seeking practical frameworks to empower their teams
• History enthusiasts curious about how military strategy can be applied to business

Wisdom Takes Work (2025) is a deep consideration of what constitutes wisdom, grounded in stoic philosophy. Drawing on lessons from thinkers, artists, and innovators across history, it analyzes true wisdom in action and distills practical strategies for cultivating wisdom in ourselves.

• Leaders who want to exercise wise judgement
• Young adults ready to form wise habits
• Disillusioned self-help readers, looking to make a real transformation

What’s Your Dream? (2025) explores how having a personal dream can become a powerful internal engine for motivation, direction, and resilience. It challenges the myths and assumptions that keep people from pursuing what they truly want, and lays out a simple process for uncovering an authentic dream by asking three foundational questions. It then shows how to turn that dream into reality by removing financial and mental barriers, taking the first concrete steps, securing an initial customer, and ultimately committing fully to the venture.

• Anyone wanting to redefine success on their own terms
• Aspiring entrepreneurs or creatives
• Professionals feeling stuck or unfulfilled in their careers

One Move Makes All the Difference (2025) explores how small, intentional moves can help you regain control over your thoughts, emotions, and actions. Drawing on neuroscience, psychology, and real-life stories, it introduces the TEAM framework – thoughts, emotions, actions, manifestation – as a practical path to break mental spirals, ease burnout, and create sustainable, values-driven change in both your work and life.

• Professionals and high achievers feeling stuck or doubting themselves
• People managing major life changes or career setbacks
• Anyone seeking practical tools for mindset and resilience

Success is a Numbers Game (2025) spills a well-kept secret: every goal has hidden probabilities of success and failure attached to it, but most people never analyze or attempt to manipulate these odds. A practical “probability hacking” framework helps you map your goals, spot critical decision points and risks, and intentionally adjust the variables that influence success – increasing your odds, every time you make a choice.

• Entrepreneurs ready to pivot from failure to success
• Creatives chasing long-shot artistic breakthroughs
• Career climbers who want to hack their way to the corner office

Intentional (2025) reveals how to achieve your ambitions by aligning your daily actions with what truly matters to you. Drawing on a decade of productivity research and insights from Buddhist philosophy, this guide offers practical strategies for structuring goals, overcoming procrastination, and knowing when to let go of pursuits that don’t serve you. Discover how to transform productivity from a struggle into something that flows naturally from your deepest values.

• Professionals who want to focus their energy on what truly matters
• Goal-setters who struggle to follow through
• Anyone seeking a deeper sense of fulfillment beyond just checking off tasks

Die Empty (2013) is a wake-up call for anyone worried their best ideas are stuck on permanent “someday.” It looks at why capable people and teams drift into comfort and stagnation, and offers a practical framework for putting energy, creativity, and focus to better use each and every day.

• People tired of coasting
• Professionals with unused ideas
• Leaders who want more than busy days

Junglekeeper (2026) tells the true story of one man’s unlikely journey from outsider to guardian of one of the last wild places on Earth – a remote corner of the Peruvian Amazon teeming with biodiversity and mystery. It’s a reminder that real adventure still exists, and that answering a deep inner calling can change the world.

• Nature and wildlife enthusiasts who are fascinated by the biodiversity of rainforests
• Adventure seekers drawn to stories of exploration, survival, and wilderness
• Environmental activists looking for real-world examples of grassroots efforts to halt deforestation

The Way of Excellence (2026) explores what it takes to achieve greatness and satisfaction in today’s world. It lays out the foundations, mindsets, habits, and practices that enable peak performers to pursue excellence sustainably, without compromising their well-being or ambition.

• High performers seeking strategies for sustainable success
• Leaders or coaches supporting high-functioning teams or individuals
• Anyone who cares about mastery and mattering.

Flourish (2026) investigates why some groups and communities generate extraordinary levels of connection, energy, and purpose. It argues that thriving communities share two core dynamics: a quality of attentive, open engagement with one another, and a collective ability to cocreate and move forward in unison. Drawing on scientific research and real-world examples, it maps out how these principles can be cultivated to build a richer, more meaningful life at any scale.

• People curious about what makes certain communities feel alive
• Individuals craving deeper connections at work, home, or in their neighborhood
• Anyone who feels successful on paper but wonders if there’s more to life

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

How a Little Becomes a Lot (2026) shows how small, steady habits slip past the mental defenses that usually block change. Shrinking huge ambitions into pocket-sized steps, paired with a reshaped daily environment, lets you grow without leaning on willpower. You'll see how a softer perspective and real self-kindness turn ordinary choices into a life that feels genuinely yours.

• Struggling souls who keep falling off daily habits they care about
• Anyone chasing steady personal growth without burnout
• People ready to soften the harsh voice inside their own heads

What to Make of a Life (2026) explores how humans find, sustain and reinvent meaning over the course of their lives. Based on a decade of studying the lives of remarkable people from politicians to musicians, it sheds light on the pivotal turning points that reshape careers, identities, and ambitions. The result is a deeply human framework for overcoming hardship, navigating uncertainty, and finding passion and purpose in life. 

• Ambitious professionals wondering how to evolve their purpose
• Lifelong learners drawn to deeply-researched, story-driven non-fiction
• Anyone finding themselves at a crossroads in their lives

Runnin’ Down a Dream (2026) explores how to build a fulfilling career around work you genuinely care about. Organized around six core principles, it offers a philosophy for avoiding career regret – from following your curiosity and committing to craft, to choosing the people, environments, and opportunities that take you somewhere worth going.

• Ambitious professionals seeking more fulfilling careers
• Curious founders building long-term career momentum
• Anyone reconsidering their professional path

80,000 Hours (2016) challenges you to rethink the tired advice of simply chasing your passion when choosing a professional path. It lays out a science-backed framework for building flexible skills, finding fulfilling work, and tackling the world’s most pressing problems. Along the way, it challenges some of the most common assumptions about what makes work meaningful.

• College students planning their future career moves
• Professionals searching for more meaningful and impactful work
• Anyone curious about the effective altruism movement

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

Procrastination Proof (2026) argues that procrastination isn’t a laziness problem, which is why willpower and hard work won’t fix it. Instead, it offers a four-step system built around permission: to dream, plan, do, and review – so you can close the gap between who you are and who you aspire to be.

• People who keep putting off the things that matter most to them
• Individuals who’ve tried willpower and discipline and still feel stuck
• Anyone who suspects their procrastination runs deeper than laziness

Beyond Possible (2020) takes you into the Death Zone for an audacious race across the world’s fourteen highest mountains. It’s the story of Nimsdai Purja, who fought against exhaustion, terrifying falls, deadly rescues, and plenty of doubters in order to show how much further we can go when we refuse to accept the limits placed in front of us.

• Fans of mountaineering, climbing, and extreme adventure stories
• People fascinated by the Himalayas and the world’s highest peaks
• Anyone interested in extraordinary feats of human endurance

This Is About Running. This Is Not About Running. (2026) is a pocket coach for anyone who runs, from first-timers to seasoned athletes. Drawing on decades of experience in running and coaching running, this thoughtful meditation on life and sport delivers no-nonsense training advice with an extra helping of joy, empathy, and encouragement. 

• Aspiring runners unsure of how to start their journey
• Seasoned athletes looking for new inspiration 
• Anyone seeking a motivation boost for their training