Los mejores 100 Routines & Habits libros

The Pomodoro Technique (2009) presents a simple yet effective method of structuring your workday. This method helps to overcome your lack of motivation by cutting large or complex tasks into small, manageable chunks. Using these techniques, you will gain more control over your work, thus making you a more effective worker and work more rewarding.

• Anyone interested in time management and productivity
• Anyone struggling with procrastination
• Anyone in search of simple tools to boost their productivity

The Power of Less introduces Leo Babauta’s ideal of productive minimalism. His approach focuses mainly on the development of good habits as the key to long-term changes.

• Anyone interested in learning how to achieve more by working less
• Anyone who wants to learn what productive minimalism could be like
• Anyone who feels overwhelmed by their life

What is happiness and how can we bring more of it into our lives? Gretchen Rubin asked herself this question because although she fulfilled all the prerequisites for a happy life – an intact family, a good job and enough money for a rainy day – she found herself frequently unhappy. During her year-long Happiness Project, she read about various techniques and theories on increasing happiness and tried to become happier with their help.

• Anyone who wants to boost the little bits of happiness in their everyday lives
• Anyone looking for ideas and theories about happiness
• Anyone in need of concrete suggestions about how to establish a balance between work, social life, family and self-fulfillment

Carrots and Sticks (2010) is the bible of behavior, incentives and self-control. These blinks will explain how you can swap out bad habits with rewards, punishments and formal commitments to yourself. You’ll gain the skills necessary to tackle challenges such as losing weight, quitting smoking and saving for retirement.

• People trying to quit smoking, lose weight or make exercise a habit
• Psychologists, behavioral therapists, coaches and personal trainers
• Managers or business owners looking to motivate employees

Hooked (2014) explains, through anecdotes and scientific studies, how and why we integrate certain products into our daily routines, and why such products are the Holy Grail for any consumer-oriented company. Hooked gives concrete advice on how companies can make their products habit-forming, while simultaneously exploring the moral issues that entails.

• Anyone who wants to understand how habits are formed
• Anyone who wants to design a hugely successful product or enhance an existing one
• Anyone who wants to understand how some products take advantage of our tendency to form habits

This title provides you with valuable insights and guidelines that will help you focus your life on the things that are truly the most meaningful. You’ll learn how to set your priorities, make the best decisions, and develop a keen vision for the future. If you’re looking to create positive change in your life, this book is a great place to start!

• Anyone who feels a lack of inner peace, balance or meaning in life
• Anyone who wants to use his or her time more effectively
• Anyone who has a hard time making big decisions
• Anyone who wants to improve the quality of his or her life

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

Rewire is about why we sometimes fall into self-destructive behavior, and how to move past it.

It delves into the brain activity behind addictions, and outlines strategies for rewiring yourself for improved self-control over your bad habits.

• Anyone struggling to overcome a bad habit or addictions
• Anyone looking to help a loved one with an addiction
• Anyone who wants to gain more peace of mind and self-control

Your people skills become increasingly important the further you climb up the ladder of success. What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There (2007) describes some of the bad habits that commonly hold back successful people and explains how to change them.

• Managers wanting to become more successful
• Anyone who wants to gain respect in the office and improve relationships with coworkers
• Leaders and executives who are proud of their personality flaws

Making Habits, Breaking Habits (2013) provides an overview of exactly what habits are and how we form them. Using this knowledge, it reveals how to create healthy habits and tackle the bad ones so that we can experience lasting, positive change in our everyday lives.

• People interested in human behavior and psychology
• Anyone willing to improve their life and make lasting changes

Today’s socially focused culture leaves us very little time to ourselves and unprepared for times when we may actually need to be alone. How to Be Alone (2014) shows us that we don’t need to be scared of solitude, and that there are many benefits and joys to be found in being alone. So don’t be afraid, go solo!

• People interested in sociology and human behavior
• Anyone afraid of being alone

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

It might sound too good to be true, but in France, babies and children sleep through the night, eat their vegetables and do what their parents tell them. In Bringing Up Bébé (2011), Pamela Druckerman, an American mother living in Paris, reveals the French parenting secrets she uncovered in her time abroad.

• Parents and parents-to-be
• Francophiles
• Anyone who works with preschool age children

Tools of Titans (2016) details the stories, strategies and successes of some of the most inspirational achievers, thinkers and doers of modern times. These blinks will teach you how to strengthen your body and your mind, all while building your creative business.

“There’s a reason why Tim Ferriss has become such an influential voice when it comes to achieving top performance. He always manages to get the best advice out of such fascinating, impressive people. Even Seth Rogan is in here!” – Ben S. Head of Salad at Blinkist

• Fitness buffs who are in search of workout tips
• Budding entrepreneurs in need of inspiration
• Creative minds looking for words of wisdom

Irresistible (2017) shows how dangerously dependent we’ve become on the smartphones, tablets, video games and social platforms that we’ve surrounded ourselves with. Is our attachment to these devices strictly related to the convenience they provide? Or have we actually grown addicted to the psychological rewards they offer?

• Psychology students
• Technology addicts
• Anyone looking to be more productive

The Four Agreements (1997) is your guide to breaking free from negative patterns and fully realizing your true self. It was a New York Times best seller for over eight years. These blinks explain how society raises people to conform to a strict set of rules and how, with a little effort and commitment, you can set your own guidelines for life.

• People who feel trapped in their own lives
• Parents who want to raise their children to feel free
• Anybody who feels like they’re living a lie

Make Your Bed (2017) is a collection of the author’s ten most valuable personal experiences during his many years of service with the US Navy SEALs. Each is a simple yet priceless piece of advice that will have a positive influence on your life.

• Team leaders looking for inspiration
• Anyone struggling to cope with life
• Motivational speakers

Own the Day, Own your Life (2018) provides handy hacks that will allow you to succeed in all areas of your life. Whether it’s your diet, sex life or exercise routine, this book provides advice that can be easily incorporated into your lifestyle so you can get the most out of every day.

• Those who want to improve their sex lives
• Gym junkies
• Dieters

Overworked and Overwhelmed (2014) shines a light on work-related stress and outlines what you can do to fight it. Packed full of simple yet effective stress-relieving strategies that you can start putting into practice today, this is a survival guide tailor-made to today’s fast-paced corporate world.

• Executives and managers
• Anyone feeling stressed and overworked
• Coaches and work psychologists

Rest (2016) takes aim at the common misconception that the longer we work, the more we’re able to get done. Written by a Silicon Valley strategist whose punishing regimen of long office hours brought him perilously close to a burnout, this empirically grounded study turns that idea on its head. Hitting your targets and achieving success isn’t about grinding out endless hours at your desk – it’s about finding the best time to work, getting enough rest and nurturing your creativity.

• Anyone working at a startup
• Creatives
• Workaholics

The Joy of Missing Out (2019) focuses on how we can eliminate stress from our lives and improve our productivity. It contains actionable strategies for simplifying our lives and identifying our priorities.

• Those who struggle to manage their time effectively
• Individuals who have a hard time saying no
• Women of all ages and all stages of life

Do Nothing (2020) argues that our obsession with efficiency and productivity has led us to underestimate the power of leisure. Tracing the rise of efficiency in previous centuries, as well as the present-day consequences of stretching ourselves too thin, author Celeste Headlee claims that we need to begin to allow ourselves to experience the true joy of idleness.

• Productivity junkies who need a reason to wind down
• Overworked employees trying to learn how to de-stress
• Working parents who never make time for themselves

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

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

Good Habits, Bad Habits (2019) lays out the workings of human habits, drawing on groundbreaking new research into the psychology of human behavior. Combining the insights of neuroscience and lab-based experiments, it shows how we can harness our habits to change our lives for the better.

• Ambitious planners who lack follow-through
• Serial dieters trying to change their eating habits for good
• Anyone trying to kick a stubborn bad habit

The Law of Success (1928) covers 15 valuable lessons that you can use to get motivated about turning your plans and dreams into reality. You can put these practical lessons into practice today. They’re designed to help you turn words into action, gain self-confidence, and thrive in any environment.

• Inspiration seekers
• Salespeople looking for tips on success
• People interested in how to gain self-confidence

Soundtracks (2021) is a simple guide to ending self-doubt, hesitation, and overthinking. Instead of being at the mercy of your fickle and often unhelpful thoughts, you’ll discover patterns of thinking that can strengthen you, make you happier, and bring you closer to achieving your goals.

• Lifelong overthinkers who finally want to start taking action
• Negative Nancies who need to inject some optimism into their lives
• Anyone who lets self-doubt interfere with work, life goals, or relationships

A World Without Email (2021) presents a bold reimagining of the workplace, one in which the days of email and instant messaging are a thing of the past. It argues that while email may seem like an integral part of modern knowledge work, it’s actually making everyone less productive and less focused, not to mention miserable. The solution will require a major paradigm shift –⁠ but it will be well worth the effort.

• Business leaders who want to root out inefficiencies in their organizations
• Employees frustrated with the workplace culture of constant communication
• Freelancers and entrepreneurs looking to improve their workflow

Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess (2021) presents a scientifically backed strategy for rooting out toxic thoughts. It breaks down the principles and tools of the Neurocycle – a mind-management process that changes toxic thoughts and their related behaviors into positive thinking and habits.

• Those looking to take control of their mental state
• People grappling with the effects of trauma
• Anyone curious about how the mind and brain are connected

The Scout Mindset (2021) explores two very different mindsets: that of the soldier and that of the scout. It explains that most of us have a soldier mindset – we cling to our beliefs and often ignore evidence that might prove us wrong. But we can all learn to be scouts, seeking out truth and improving our “map” of the world.

• Anyone who wants to overcome their inherent biases
• People who want to learn how to be wrong
• Truth seekers

Fear Less (2021) highlights the countless ways that fear infiltrates our lives, negatively impacting our work, relationships, and personal satisfaction. We may not even realize that we’re afraid, but identifying our underlying anxieties and insecurities is the first step to leading a more fulfilling, fearless life.

• Perfectionists who feel they’re never quite good enough
• Private people who struggle with honesty and intimacy
• Nervous fliers, anxious parents, commitment-phobes, and anyone else who’s afraid

Unwinding Anxiety (2021) breaks down the brain science behind the bad habits that keep us stuck. Have you ever tried to reason yourself out of binge eating, or procrastinating? Then you’ll know that it just doesn’t work. That’s because addiction and obsessive thought patterns are controlled by our instinctive survival brains, not our rational brains. Learning how to retrain our brains using mindfulness techniques will allow us to free ourselves from chronic worry, anxiety, and other obsessive habits. 

• Chronic worriers who want a way to calm their racing thoughts 
• People who want to interrupt addictive behaviors
• Health professionals looking for new tools to curb the anxiety epidemic

How to Think More Effectively (2020) is a simple guide to improving the way you think. Drawing lessons from sources as diverse as the feeling of envy and the prose of Proust, it lays out the characteristics of effective thoughts – and shows how you can start cultivating them.

• Reflective types who want to up their cognitive game
• Creatives trying to release their inner potential
• Anyone who’d like to feel a little bit smarter

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

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

The High 5 Habit (2021) offers a startling proposition: A single change to your morning routine can help upend your outmoded, self-limiting attitudes and kick your life into top gear. Interwoven with personal anecdotes and scientific research, this blueprint for life transformation makes self-improvement seem easier than ever.

• Self-improvement and personal-development fanatics 
• Anyone who wants to change but needs a strong dose of pep and energy
• Armchair psychologists interested in the workings of emotional growth

Discipline Equals Freedom (2020) is your field manual to the art of self-discipline. It uncovers what you need to do to meet your full potential – and why being disciplined sets you free. 

• Fitness buffs looking for a new angle
• Fans of straight-talking tough love
• Anyone seeking inspiration to work harder

Million Dollar Habits (2017) is the manual to your brain and your life that you never got in school. It explains the “secrets” of success and what you need to do to unlock your full potential.

• Millionaire wannabes
• Couch potatoes looking to get fit and healthy 
• People who want to develop great relationships

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

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

Peak Mind (2021) provides a cutting-edge overview of the science of attention – looking at the various ways your mind focuses and pays attention, as well as the factors that cause our mental vigilance to lapse and weaken over time. What’s more, it lays out a simple, easy-to-follow regimen to keep your mind in tip-top shape – even as you deal with the ups and downs of life.

• Science enthusiasts interested in the frontiers of neuroscience
• Distractible procrastinators trying to find their focus
• Mindfulness skeptics interested in the science underpinning the practice

Procrastination (1983) is a deep dive into procrastination – and why people struggle with it. Drawing on personal and professional experience, it offers a tested program and tips on how to conquer procrastination tendencies.

• People seeking to understand why they procrastinate
• Compulsive procrastinators looking for ways to improve
• Friends or family of procrastinators who want to help

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

The Mountain Is You (2020) can help you recognize the negative patterns in your life and what they are really telling you. Changing those patterns will be like climbing a mountain and the reward will be unlocking your own potential.

• People with bad habits that they want to understand and change 
• Those looking to maximize their potential
• Anyone who feels stuck

Redeeming Your Time (2021) offers practical, faith-based guidance to help you make the most of your precious time and focus on what truly matters. Drawing on inspiring stories and biblical wisdom, this powerful resource equips you to prioritize your tasks, develop meaningful habits, and ultimately live a more purposeful life. 

• Busy professionals seeking work-life balance
• Faith-driven individuals pursuing purposeful living
• Time management enthusiasts seeking fresh insights

Reinventing Your Life (1994) is a manual on how to pull yourself out of negative habits and improve your life. By identifying key stumbling blocks to growth – or “lifetraps” – and presenting ways to overcome them, it guides you toward sustainable personal growth and happiness.

• Anyone who feels stuck in the same old negative loop
• People looking to understand themselves better
• Psychology buffs

1-2-3 Magic (1995) is a clear and thorough guide to one of the most difficult yet important aspects of parenting: discipline. By outlining essential parenting principles and demonstrating simple and immediately applicable techniques, it creates a roadmap for taking back control of your home and building a much more enjoyable relationship with your child. Whether your goal is to stop the bad behavior of a tantrum-prone toddler or encourage good behavior in your pre-teen, this revised sixth edition will give you the tools you need to discipline responsibly.

• Overwhelmed parents of younger children who need to adopt a new approach to discipline
• Exhausted carers of pre-teens who want to have more control over bad behavior
• Anyone who feels like they spend more time fighting than having fun with their child

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 Creative Act (2023) is a meditative manifesto about what it really means to be an artist. It contends that artists don’t have a monopoly on creativity – everyone is inherently creative. To access that creativity you just need to commit to a creative practice. By cultivating an awareness of the world around you and allowing yourself to make lots of mistakes, you’ll be able to revel in the creative process, instead of fearing it.

• Music lovers looking for inspiration from a world-famous producer
• Blocked creatives who want to get over their fears and start making cool stuff
• Spiritual seekers who want to learn how to delight in the world around them

Built to Move (2023) is your ultimate guide to building a better, healthier, more functional body. The concept is simple – it provides a handful of simple tests to assess your movement, and a handful of easy-to-follow routines to improve it. Utilizing the latest insights of mobility, sleep, and nutrition science, you’ll learn to keep your body and mind as fit as possible with minimal effort – no matter if you’re a couch potato or a world class athlete. 

• Couch potatoes looking for a minimal movement practice to stay healthy
• Professional athletes looking to keep their body as fit as possible 
• Anyone who wants to move better and without pain 

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

Love Unfu*ked (2022) is a no-nonsense, in-your-face guide to identifying and fixing the one thing that’s stopping you from having a meaningful and fulfilling relationship: you. By accepting hard facts about yourself and your habits, you can begin making the changes necessary to be the best version of yourself and stop being the problem that you don’t even know you are.

• The married or committed who’ve grown miserable in their relationships
• Perpetual daters who are wondering why things never work out
• Anyone looking for a more meaningful and satisfying relationship

The Home Edit (2019) proposes a straightforward formula to organize any part of the home in a way that is functional, classy, and easy to maintain. The technique it teaches is equally easy for other members of the household to learn and apply, so that everyone can enjoy a calm, happy home environment.

• Anyone trying to maintain order and beauty in their homes
• Parents teaching their kids good housekeeping habits
• Interior designers trying to help clients maintain the spaces they create

Learn to maintain positivity, shared abundance, good habits, and relationships with uplifting examples and practical strategies from the newly released Pathways to Peace of Mind (2023).

• General seekers of calm in chaos
• Group leaders who want more zen
• Entrepreneurs desiring success without burnout

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

How to Be Your Own Therapist presents highly-effective techniques from evidence-based therapeutic approaches, including cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness. Funny and humane, it outlines a simple self-therapy program to free you from unhelpful habits and tendencies, as well as daily check-in sessions that can be completed in as little as ten minutes.  

• People wishing to learn essential therapeutic techniques to improve their lives
• Anyone curious about initiating a daily self-therapy practice
• Those eager to overcome negative thought patterns and adopt healthier perspectives

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 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

The Sleep Prescription (2022) is a practical guide to getting out of your own way and changing your behaviors to set yourself up for a better night’s sleep. It features seven days of clinical psychologist and sleep expert Dr. Aric Prather’s best tools and practices for finally achieving the healthy, restorative sleep we all need to feel our best.

• Anyone who wants to improve their sleep
• Those suffering from insomnia
• People who want to learn about the science behind sleep

The Oxygen Advantage (2015) reveals how simple breath control can unlock untapped power to improve fitness, focus, and overall well-being. 

• Athletes or fitness enthusiasts looking to gain an edge in endurance, performance, and workout recovery
• Those interested in boosting concentration, mental clarity, and accessing meditative states through breathing
• People looking for holistic health approaches rooted in evolutionary biology and ancestral lifestyles

Clear Thinking (2023) presents a strategy and tactics to improve your quality of reasoning using a concise synthesis of the insights from thought leaders in business, psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy. It begins with teaching how to discern when critical thought is most important and then to manage the factors that most commonly obscure real problems. It then shares tactics to optimally develop and evaluate possible solutions, choose the best one, and take action.

• Anyone who wants to improve their quality of thinking for better outcomes in life
• Business leaders seeking effective decision-making strategies
• People who want to establish better habits

Don't Overthink It (2020) unveils the mental entanglements that come with constant rumination, highlighting how overthinking can rob us of time and precious moments. Drawing on her own experience as an overthinker, Anne Bogel provides readers with tangible solutions to break free from the chains of repetitive, negative thought patterns. 

• Individuals seeking personal growth
• Avid readers of self-help and personal development
• Admirers of Anne Bogel's work

Scarcity Brain (2023) reveals how our ancient scarcity mindset now backfires in a world of abundance. Michael Easter traveled the world consulting innovators on tactics to counter scarcity cues – from a Las Vegas slot machine designer detecting triggers to coffee-making monks finding happiness in alone time. By understanding our cravings, we can shake the worst habits and use what we have better for a more satisfying life.

• People looking to break bad habits and addictions
• Those interested in the science behind human behavior
• Anyone seeking to take control of their life and live more fully

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

How to Stop Procrastinating (2017) offers practical strategies to overcome the habit of delaying tasks. It provides insights into the psychological triggers behind procrastination and outlines actionable steps to foster better productivity and time management skills. The guide is designed to help you implement these techniques to achieve immediate and lasting results.

• Students struggling with time management
• Professionals facing deadline and project pressures
• Writers and creatives battling with blocks

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

The Art of Laziness (2024) is a transformative guide to improving your productivity, offering practical strategies for personal and professional growth. Through the dual focus of mindset and action, it teaches you how to overcome procrastination, harness your best work, and realize your full potential. 

• Anyone who wants to kick the lazy habit 
• Those who seem to work hard but go nowhere
• People looking for their first self-help book

Living the Artist’s Way (2024) offers a six-week program designed to strengthen your connection to your intuition and the higher forces that supply us with inspiration. By looking at day-to-day concerns, it offers ways to stay calm, motivated, and optimistic about your work. 

• Anyone seeking creative inspiration
• People suffering from self-doubt
• Artists looking for a more spiritual approach

Hello Sleep (2023) delves into the often-misunderstood nature of insomnia, emphasizing that the key to overcoming sleepless nights lies not in exerting more effort but in mending your relationship with sleep. It offers a wealth of concrete, science-backed strategies, aimed at helping you to rediscover a sense of wonder and appreciation for your sleep.

• Anyone battling chronic insomnia
• Readers seeking science-backed sleep improvement strategies
• Fans of compassionate health and wellness guidance

Uptime (2024) is your roadmap to mastering productivity and achieving a harmonious work-life balance. It guides you through establishing a system for managing priorities, whether in a work environment or your personal life, so you’ll never again feel overwhelmed by your to-do list. Find more time for yourself, make technology work for you, and experience a sense of calm accomplishment in all facets of your existence.

• Busy professionals seeking work-life balance
• Entrepreneurs looking to align their actions with their goals
• Overwhelmed individuals craving intentional living

The Wealth Money Can't Buy (2024) is a groundbreaking guide that will hardwire in you a completely new way of measuring wealth. With proven tactics and methods, it will help you stop chasing the wrong kinds of riches, so you can get on the right track to making a life you absolutely adore.

• Personal growth enthusiasts seeking fulfillment beyond material possessions
• Overworked professionals looking to redefine success and priorities
• Spiritual seekers desiring a holistic approach to abundance

The Hunger Habit (2024) explores the psychological aspects of why we eat beyond our basic energy needs. Delving into how emotional hunger leads to unhealthy eating habits, it offers mindfulness strategies to manage cravings and develop a healthier relationship with food.

• Individuals struggling with emotional and habitual eating
• Mindfulness practitioners seeking dietary behavior change
• Health enthusiasts skeptical of fad diets

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 Mentally Strong Leader (2024) is a comprehensive guide to cultivating the mental fortitude essential for effective leadership. Detailing over 50 tools designed to enhance the regulation of emotions, thoughts, and behaviors, it empowers leaders to thrive in challenging environments and steer their teams with greater confidence.

• Leaders aspiring to greater mental strength
• Professionals in high-pressure leadership roles
• Personal and professional growth seekers

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

The PLAN (2024) offers a refreshing and compassionate perspective on time management, emphasizing integration and intentionality over mindless optimization and productivity. Using the PLAN – Prepare, Live, Adjust, and Notice – approach, readers are equipped to accomplish what matters most in each season of life. 

• Individuals who have struggled with traditional time management advice 
• Anyone overwhelmed by productivity culture and craving a simpler approach
• Working parents juggling work and home demands 

Sleep Drink Breathe (2024) presents a straightforward approach to transforming health and wellness through three fundamental biological behaviors. It explains how making simple adjustments to sleeping, hydrating, and breathing can dramatically improve energy, stress levels, and cognitive function in a matter of weeks.

• Health-conscious people seeking science-backed fundamentals
• Consumers seeking effective alternatives to expensive health products
• Anyone dealing with sleep issues, fatigue, or stress

Getting It Done When You’re Depressed (2021) offers 50 practical strategies to break the cycle of unproductivity and regain control of your life while managing depression. It provides step-by-step guidance on shifting your mindset and creating a daily structure tailored to your needs. With its actionable advice, it will empower you to overcome mental health challenges and live a more fulfilling life.

• Individuals struggling with depression
• People seeking actionable mental health improvement strategies
• Friends and family supporting someone with depression

How to Finish Everything You Start (2019) explores why people struggle to complete tasks and offers practical strategies to help them follow through. It presents a structured approach for overcoming procrastination, perfectionism, and unrealistic expectations. By implementing actionable techniques, readers can improve their productivity and consistently finish what they begin. 

• Overwhelmed professionals seeking to improve task completion
• Ambitious students aiming to manage their workload effectively
• Procrastination-prone goal-setters looking to boost productivity

Work Backwards (2024) explores the common feeling of being overworked and disconnected, suggesting that perhaps we’re all looking at work the wrong way. Instead, it proposes a fresh approach, flipping traditional ideas on their head to help us find a better balance and more fulfillment in our daily work lives. 

• Professionals seeking a better work-life balance
• Entrepreneurs wanting innovative workplace strategies
• Readers interested in modern work culture insights

The 5 AM Miracle (2015) is your guide to maximizing your productivity, focus, and personal growth by designing intentional daily routines. It emphasizes the power of structured mornings but extends beyond wake-up times, offering strategies for setting clear goals, building sustainable habits, and maintaining momentum through systematic tracking. It will help you take control of your time, optimize energy levels, and make consistent progress toward your greatest ambitions.

• Professionals and entrepreneurs looking to maximize their productivity
• Students and lifelong learners building effective habits
• Anyone transitioning to an early morning routine

Don't Sweat the Small Stuff... and It's All Small Stuff (1997) is for anyone who’s ever felt like the little annoyances of life are running the show. It offers simple, down-to-earth ways to quiet your mind, ease your stress, and enjoy life a whole lot more. It guides us toward a place where the small stuff is no longer stealing your happiness, and where we are more centered and focused on what really matters.

• Stressed-out professionals
• Busy parents
• Personal growth seekers

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

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

Process! (2022) is a business guide that teaches leaders how to identify, document, and systematize their company’s core processes, focusing on a high-level “20/80 approach” that ensures consistent execution across the organization. It argues that contrary to popular belief, implementing rigorous processes actually increases freedom and creativity by eliminating the daily firefighting and chaos that trap leaders in operational details rather than strategic thinking.

• Founders looking to scale operations without losing control
• Small business owners craving more strategic thinking and less short-term firefighting
• Operations managers wanting to systemize workflows for consistent results

The Highly Sensitive Parent (2020) reveals why you experience parenting with such intensity. You'll learn that your sensitivity is not a weakness but a superpower for attunement. Discover how to manage the overwhelm and use your unique gifts to build a deeper connection with your child.

• Parents who feel easily overwhelmed and constantly exhausted
• Individuals curious about the trait of high sensitivity
• Partners seeking to understand their highly sensitive co-parent better

Tame Your Thoughts (2025) presents a Christian perspective on the link between thinking patterns and wellbeing. It outlines biblical tools aimed at transforming destructive mental habits and incorporates neuroscience-informed strategies for challenges such as worry, guilt, and anxiety. The perspective emphasizes that, since God designed the brain, it can be retrained through deliberate thought management grounded in biblical principles.

• Chronic worriers who want to interrupt anxious thought spirals
• Guilt-prone people who want to live free from toxic shame
• Depressives who want to uproot negativity and replant with hope

Nobody Wants Your Sh*t (2023) delivers a profanity-laced wake-up call about clearing out possessions while you still can. It blends irreverent humor alongside actionable decluttering advice, aiming to help you simplify your daily existence and spare loved ones from the burden of your possessions.

• Overwhelmed homeowners facing decades of accumulation
• Those who’ve tried decluttering but keep reaccumulating
• Anyone seeking mental clarity beyond just tidy spaces

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

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

Small Moves, Big Life (2025) shows how life gets better when you stop chasing huge changes and start taking tiny actions that actually fit your day. It gives you simple energy-enhancing habits that help you build a life that feels joyful and manageable, even when everything else is loud and busy.

• People who want to feel better without a total life makeover
• Anyone stretched thin by work, family, and everything else
• Self improvement fans who love practical, doable steps

Why Do I Keep Doing This? (2025) explores how childhood survival strategies around control keep adults trapped in toxic cycles of approval-seeking and people-pleasing. It unveils how behaviors that were once protective disconnect people from their authentic selves and block genuine connection, and shows how you can begin to break free from your unconscious patterns.

• People-pleasers who apologize constantly and have difficulty saying no
• Burned out achievers wondering why they feel so empty despite striving for perfection
• Anyone seeking to understand why rest and self-care feel impossible to justify

Stop Letting Everything Affect You (2025) is for anyone exhausted by overthinking and emotional chaos. It reveals why small situations trigger overwhelming reactions and provides practical tools to defend your inner calm. By learning emotional detachment, setting firm boundaries, and practicing daily gratitude, it shows you how to finally take back control.

• Empaths exhausted by absorbing others' emotions
• Survivors of manipulation and gaslighting
• Overthinkers stuck in anxiety loops

You’ve Been Pooping All Wrong (2026) reveals that most of us are unknowingly sabotaging one of our body’s most essential functions – simply because nobody ever taught us how to do it properly. Drawing on cutting-edge research in neuroscience and gut biology, it unpacks the fascinating link between your brain, your microbiome, and your digestive habits. This guide will help you transform something you do every day into a genuine source of health, ease, and yes – joy.

• chronically stressed professionals who’ve noticed their gut seems to have a mind of its own
• IBS sufferers who have struggled for years with digestive discomfort and are looking for science-backed answers
• wellness enthusiasts who want to tap into the microbiome as a lever for better overall health

Inside the Box (2026) makes the case that constraints – not freedom – are the key to creativity, innovation, and personal satisfaction. It draws on cognitive science and real-life stories to show how intentional limits, whether self-imposed or circumstantial, consistently produce better outcomes than unlimited resources or options.

• Anyone who has ever felt paralyzed by too many options
• Entrepreneurs, leaders, and creatives looking for new ways to innovate
• People who wonder why they do their best work under pressure

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