Intrenion

Books as Frameworks: Personal Growth & Mindset

Table of Contents

100 Simple Secrets of Happy People (David Niven)

  1. Your Life Has Purpose and Meaning
  2. Use a Strategy for Happiness
  3. You Don’t Have to Win Every Time
  4. Your Goals Should Be Aligned with One Another
  5. Choose Your Comparisons Wisely
  6. Cultivate Friendships
  7. Turn Off the Tv
  8. Accept Yourself - Unconditionally
  9. Remember Where You Came From
  10. Limit Yourself to Thinking About One Subject as You Lie Down to Sleep
  11. Friendship Beats Money
  12. Have Realistic Expectations
  13. Be Open to New Ideas
  14. Share with Others How Important They Are to You
  15. If You’re Not Sure, Guess Positively
  16. Believe in Yourself
  17. Don’t Believe in Yourself Too Much
  18. Don’t Face Your Problems Alone
  19. Age Is Not to Be Feared
  20. Develop a Household Routine
  21. Don’t Be Overprotective
  22. Pay Attention. You May Have What You Want
  23. Don’t Let Your Religious Beliefs Fade
  24. Do What You Say You Are Going to Do
  25. Don’t Be Aggressive with Your Friends and Family
  26. Root for the Home Team
  27. Don’t Confuse Stuff with Success
  28. Every Relationship Is Different
  29. Don’t Think “What If …?”
  30. Volunteer
  31. If You Can’t Reach Your Goals, Your Goals Will Hurt You
  32. Exercise
  33. Little Things Have Big Meanings
  34. It’s Not What Happened, It’s How You Think About What Happened
  35. Develop Some Common Interests with Loved Ones
  36. Laugh
  37. Don’t Let Your Entire Life Hinge on One Element
  38. Share of Yourself
  39. Busy Is Better Than Bored
  40. Satisfaction Is Relative
  41. Learn to Use a Computer
  42. Try to Think Less About the People and Things That Bother You
  43. Keep Your Family Close
  44. Eat Some Fruit Every Day
  45. Enjoy What You Have
  46. Think in Concrete Terms
  47. Be Socially Supportive
  48. Don’t Blame Yourself
  49. Be a Peacemaker
  50. Cherish Animals
  51. Make Your Work a Calling
  52. Never Trade Your Morals for Your Goals
  53. Don’t Pretend to Ignore Things Your Loved Ones Do That Bother You
  54. Get a Good Night’s Sleep
  55. Buy What You Like
  56. Accomplish Something Every Day
  57. Be Flexible
  58. Events Are Temporary
  59. Be Your Own Fan
  60. Join a Group
  61. Be Positive
  62. There Will Be an End, but You Can Be Prepared
  63. How We See the World Is More Important Than How the World Is
  64. Keep a Pen and Paper Handy
  65. Help the Next Person Who Needs Some Minor Assistance
  66. Take Care Not to Harshly Criticize Family and Friends
  67. Some People Like the Big Picture, and Others Like the Details
  68. Do Things You Are Good At
  69. Go Visit Your Neighbor
  70. Smile
  71. Don’t Accept Television’s Picture of the World
  72. You Always Have a Choice
  73. Be Agreeable
  74. Don’t Ignore One Part of Your Life
  75. Listen to Music
  76. Let Your Goals Guide You
  77. Use Your Job Positively
  78. Don’t Forget to Have Fun
  79. Believe in Ultimate Justice
  80. Reminisce
  81. Be Conscientious
  82. Don’t Dwell on Unwinnable Conflicts
  83. Enjoy the Ordinary
  84. Focus Not on the World’s Tragedies, but on the World’s Hope
  85. Get a Hobby
  86. Envying Other People’s Relationships Is Pointless
  87. Give Yourself Time to Adapt to Change
  88. Focus on What Really Matters to You
  89. Realize That Complete Satisfaction Does Not Exist
  90. Surround Yourself with Pleasant Aromas
  91. Don’t Let Others Set Your Goals
  92. You Are a Person, Not a Stereotype
  93. Know What Makes You Happy and Sad
  94. Keep Reading
  95. We Must Feel Needed
  96. Say “So What?”
  97. Have a Purpose
  98. You Have Not Finished the Best Part of Your Life
  99. Money Does Not Buy Happiness
  100. What Does It All Mean? You Decide

100 Simple Secrets of Healthy People (David Niven)

  1. Use a Plan, Not a Piecemeal Approach
  2. The Quest for a Perfect Body Is Doomed
  3. Avoid Imagining the Worst
  4. Keep Healthy Foods Handy
  5. Easy Does It with Vitamins
  6. What You Do Matters
  7. Give Yourself Time
  8. Stop the War on Bacteria
  9. You’re Never Too Old to Improve Your Habits
  10. Don’t Buy the Fountain of Youth
  11. Always Being Right Is Wrong for Your Health
  12. Couch Time Affects Body and Mind
  13. Eat Your Spinach
  14. You Can Worry Your Health Away
  15. Fitness Is Free
  16. The Cold Doesn’t Give You a Cold
  17. Healthy Living Is an Attitude
  18. Cleaning Isn’t Clean
  19. History Isn’t Everything
  20. Don’t Delay - Emergencies Can’t Wait
  21. Enjoy Slow Music at Dinner
  22. Avoid Tanning Beds
  23. A Tomato a Day Is Even Better
  24. It’s Easier to Practice Good Health When Those Around You Do Too
  25. Physical Health Is Mental Too
  26. Breathe Right
  27. Use Discretion with Internet Advice
  28. Mold Is Everywhere - So Relax
  29. Turn Off the TV
  30. Drive Safely - When It’s Safe
  31. Eat Less, but Eat Often
  32. Look on the Bright Side
  33. Drink Grape Juice
  34. Home Affects Your Health More than Work
  35. Ask Whether a Medicine Is Right for You
  36. Memories Are Not Lost
  37. Ask Where Your Water Comes From
  38. You Don’t Have to Put Up with Secondhand Smoke
  39. Forgiveness Helps You Heal
  40. Use the Stairs
  41. You’ll Get the Same Care on the Weekend
  42. Talk to Your Pharmacist
  43. Wipe, Don’t Blow
  44. Common Chores Can Be Dangerous
  45. Let Your Stress Out
  46. No TV During Dinner
  47. Study Your Sports Drink
  48. In Sickness and in Health
  49. Remember, Ginkgo Biloba Won’t Help Your Memory
  50. Laughter Really Is Medicine
  51. Use Caution when Combining Remedies
  52. Teeth Whitening May Cause Discomfort
  53. Maintain Your Sense of Control
  54. Have an Orange
  55. Build Your Energy Level Gradually
  56. Pleasant Smells Boost Your Health
  57. Cherish Your Friends
  58. Secondhand Smoke Affects the Brain
  59. Don’t Pack like a Mule
  60. Have Some Tea with Your Remodeling
  61. Short-Term Stress Is Healthy
  62. Keep Bugs Away with Deet-Based Products
  63. Write It Down
  64. Sleep Well
  65. Your Teeth Are More than Something to Chew On
  66. Home Is Where Accidents Happen
  67. Value the Multiple Uses of Aspirin
  68. Religion Can Help Ease Your Burden
  69. Noise Matters
  70. Limit Your Exposure to Pesticides
  71. Hostility Hurts You
  72. Remember the Drugs We Tend to Forget
  73. High Heels Cause Knee Problems
  74. Guilt Is Bad for You
  75. Keep Variety in Mind When Exercising
  76. Don’t Use Fireworks
  77. Do You Work in a Sick Building?
  78. Stay Safe in the Sun
  79. Don’t Take Falling Down Lightly
  80. Limit Your Piercings
  81. Where You Live Matters
  82. Electric Brushing Is Easier but Not Much Different
  83. Be Careful with Botox
  84. Pay Attention to Chronic Conditions
  85. Weigh the Benefits of Alcohol Against the Risks
  86. Regular Vitamins Do the Job
  87. Hug for Health
  88. Exercise for Your Mind
  89. Don’t Let the Holidays Ruin Your Health
  90. Stretch Out and Fly Right
  91. The Most Treatment Is Not the Best Treatment
  92. Recognize the Difference Between Caution and Fear
  93. Be Careful What You Ask For
  94. Make Health a Convenience
  95. Don’t Drown Yourself in Water
  96. Health Is About Life
  97. Having a Pet Is Healthy
  98. Vegetables Will Taste Better in the Future
  99. Follow Through for Better Health
  100. Complete Health Is Rare

100 Simple Secrets of Successful People (David Niven)

  1. Competence Starts with Feeling Competent
  2. It’s Not How Hard You Try
  3. Creativity Comes from Within
  4. Take Small Victories
  5. You Can’t Force Yourself to Like Broccoli
  6. Resist the Urge to Be Average
  7. There Is Plenty of Time
  8. It’s Never Just One Thing
  9. Don’t Keep Fighting Your First Battle
  10. Change Is Possible, Not Easy
  11. Seek Input from Your Opposites
  12. Write Down the Directions
  13. Anticipate Irrationality
  14. The Best Defense Is to Listen
  15. Winners Are Made, Not Born
  16. Do Things in Order
  17. Get Experience Any Way You Can
  18. Self-Motivation Works Once
  19. Speak Slowly
  20. Where You Stand Depends on Where You Look
  21. Use Your Own Self-Interest
  22. Remember Who You Are and Where You Are
  23. Negotiate with Confidence, or Don’t
  24. Volunteer to Feel Better
  25. Remember the Task, Forget the Rankings
  26. Avoid the Second-Guess Paralysis
  27. Seek a Tall Plateau, Not the Peak
  28. Play the Odds
  29. The Past Is Not the Future
  30. Get a Good Night’s Sleep
  31. It Starts and Ends with You
  32. Notice Patterns
  33. Efficiency in Everything
  34. Tomorrow Will Be a Better Day (But How Exactly?)
  35. Lessons Can’t Threaten
  36. Success Is Formula, Not Fantasy
  37. You Need to Know More Than Just How Talented You Are
  38. Role Models Are Not One-Size-Fits-All
  39. Learn from Losses
  40. Embrace Work; It May Have to Last Forever
  41. Exercise and Eat Right
  42. Boredom Is the Enemy
  43. Be Clear About Your Role in the Outcome
  44. Make Change Count
  45. Listening Is More Than Not Talking
  46. Take Off Your Blinders
  47. You’ll Get What You’re Afraid Of
  48. Think About Who You Ought to Be
  49. Leadership Is Contagious
  50. Want Support? Deserve It
  51. You Will Give Up Faster if You’re Not in Control
  52. Life Is Not a Zero-Sum Game
  53. You Don’t Have to Get Straight A’s Anymore
  54. Whet Your Appetite for Success
  55. Remember the Difference Between You and Everybody Else
  56. Your Work and Home Lives Must Fit Together
  57. Nobody Wins Without a Loser
  58. Tell Clean Jokes
  59. Don’t Want Everything
  60. Look for Value
  61. Get Your Motivation Where You Can Find It
  62. Be an Expert
  63. Failure Is Not Trying
  64. You Are Not in This Alone
  65. Your Goals Are a Living Thing
  66. Avoid Roller-Coaster Emotions
  67. Care
  68. You Can’t Be Persistent Without Perspective
  69. Changing Jobs Doesn’t Change You
  70. It Might Get Worse Before It Gets Better
  71. If You Don’t Believe, No One Else Will
  72. You’ll Work Harder if You Feel Wanted
  73. Don’t Talk to Yourself
  74. Seek Coherence and Congruence
  75. If You Doubt, You’re Out
  76. Always Think About What’s Next
  77. Value Practical Knowledge
  78. See the Risk in Doing Nothing
  79. Face Conflict Head-On
  80. Money Isn’t Everything
  81. Be Realistic About Yourself
  82. Find Your Own Path
  83. Own What You Do
  84. Be Honest for Your Future
  85. You Need to Know What You Are Looking For
  86. Don’t Forget Packaging
  87. Learn to Lead Yourself
  88. A Victory at All Costs Is Not a Victory
  89. People Who Have It Right Work Harder to Make It Better
  90. Don’t Run in the Wrong Direction Just Because You’re Near the Finish Line
  91. Hope Springs Internal
  92. Think as if Others Can Read Your Mind
  93. You’ll Get Knocked Down and Then Get Back Up
  94. Keep Your Goals Where You Can See Them
  95. Don’t Settle
  96. What Is the Point?
  97. Win Your Own Respect First
  98. Your Goals Must Engage All of You
  99. Take Action
  100. Only You Can Say if This Is a World You Can Succeed In

100 Simple Secrets of the Best Half of Life (David Niven)

  1. Happiness Is Not an Accident
  2. You Must Approve of Yourself
  3. Keep Going
  4. Try Something New
  5. You Still Are Who You Were
  6. Happy Looks for Happy
  7. The Mirror Will Be Kinder
  8. Fun Is Not Over
  9. See the Beauty Around You
  10. Never Retire from Life
  11. Have Time for Thoughts
  12. Turn Off the Bad News
  13. Express Yourself in What You Do
  14. You Are Not Old
  15. Money Can’t Buy Happiness
  16. The Only Requirement Is Embracing the Lack of Requirements
  17. Keep Your Fears in Line
  18. Sign Up for Everything
  19. Be Decisive
  20. Believe You Can
  21. See the Real Pay in Work
  22. Know Your Health
  23. See a New Way
  24. Avoid Generational Competition
  25. Respond to Stress
  26. The Best Life Needs No Trophy
  27. The Future Can Be Brighter Than the Past
  28. Stay in Control
  29. See Beyond You
  30. Transitions Can Be Both Happy and Sad
  31. Embrace Challenges
  32. Get Away from It All
  33. Live Beyond Your Family Model
  34. Life Gets Easier
  35. Volunteer for Yourself
  36. Never Give Up
  37. Get Out of the Car
  38. Don’t Gamble Your Future
  39. Find a Physician You Like
  40. Who You Are Is Not Just What You Do
  41. Foundations Shift, but Life Stands
  42. Share What You Know
  43. Discuss Your Worries, Then Don’t Dwell on Them
  44. It All Looks Better over Time
  45. Keep Relationships on Level Ground
  46. Adapt
  47. Make Home Home
  48. Don’t Let Irritation Be Louder Than Joy
  49. Geography Does Not Limit Family Life
  50. Vote
  51. Forgive
  52. Eat for Nutrition, Not for Compensation
  53. We’re Happier Older Than Younger
  54. Each Part of Life Must Function
  55. See the Person, Not the Label
  56. Laugh Your Way to Answers
  57. Exercise
  58. Feed and Cultivate Friendships
  59. Communicate on Their Terms
  60. Remember to Care for Yourself When Caring for Others
  61. Be Careful Choosing Home Associations
  62. See Around Career Roadblocks
  63. See a Kid, Be a Kid Again
  64. Stretch
  65. Let Old Secrets Stay Secrets
  66. Listen to Your Favorite Music
  67. Practice Maintenance for Life
  68. Call Town Hall
  69. Pay Attention to Nonverbal Communication
  70. Wash the Dishes
  71. Be Open to a New View
  72. Love Evolves but Can Stay Strong
  73. Use a Computer
  74. The Youngest and Oldest Like Work the Least
  75. Compromise What but Never Who
  76. Your History Strengthens Your Future
  77. Share Your Home
  78. Honor Your Spiritual Beliefs
  79. Wear Many Hats
  80. Put Stuff in Its Place
  81. Seek Meaning
  82. We Never Outgrow Jealousy
  83. Cherish Your Heritage
  84. Share Your Fun
  85. Pay Attention to Your Dreams
  86. All the Time Is Too Much
  87. Regrets Hold Us Back
  88. See Your Goals
  89. Give the Gift of Yourself
  90. Boredom Is the Enemy
  91. Redefine Career
  92. Travel the Stable Road
  93. It’s Less What Happened Than What Happened Next
  94. You Define Success
  95. Never Stop Learning
  96. View Your Life as a Choice
  97. Make Your Mark on the Next Generation
  98. Why Not Be Optimistic?
  99. There’s No Deadline for Your Dreams
  100. Do It Now

100 Things Successful People Do (Nigel Cumberland)

100 Things Successful People Do

  1. Follow your dreams
  2. Ask for help
  3. Create your future
  4. Be emotionally intelligent
  5. Do the opposite
  6. Turn work into play
  7. Start each day well
  8. Make friends with your past
  9. Take breaks
  10. Be a student of life
  11. Trust your gut
  12. Banish your stress
  13. Be likeable
  14. Say ‘yes’
  15. Say ‘no’
  16. Volunteer your time
  17. Focus on things you can control
  18. Live within your means
  19. Live in the ‘real world’
  20. Stay focused
  21. Love more
  22. Reinvent yourself
  23. Stay healthy
  24. Forgive others
  25. Be part of a tribe
  26. Exude confidence
  27. Give credit where it’s due
  28. Reduce attachments to possessions
  29. Build rapport
  30. Live mindfully
  31. Accept compromises
  32. Be more than your 9-5
  33. Know yourself
  34. Embrace the journey of getting older
  35. Be both an extrovert and an introvert
  36. Live with an open mind
  37. Be the best parent
  38. Walk away from pollution
  39. Leave your comfort zone
  40. Appreciate those closest to you
  41. Seek wisdom and use it
  42. Model the best
  43. Have the courage to fail
  44. Accept yourself
  45. Watch and manage your thoughts
  46. Remember people
  47. Discover what drives you
  48. Appreciate what you’ve got
  49. Make peace with your parents
  50. Laugh more
  51. Stay unique
  52. Sleep well
  53. Go your own way
  54. Seek simplicity
  55. Do it today
  56. Seek experiences over things
  57. Have clearly written goals
  58. Give reading your full attention
  59. Get a thick skin
  60. Be generous
  61. Eat and drink well
  62. Seek and create harmony
  63. Get home on time
  64. Work for as long as you can
  65. Have great body language
  66. Choose and keep your friends wisely
  67. Be curious
  68. Do what you say
  69. Pause before you press ‘Send’
  70. Make friends with fear
  71. Tell the truth
  72. Become an expert at something
  73. Apologize when you are wrong
  74. Stay in touch with old friends
  75. Keep the bigger picture in mind
  76. Embrace technology
  77. Persist and don’t give up
  78. Watch out for addictions
  79. Spend more time outside in nature
  80. Use your intelligence wisely
  81. Focus on character not popularity
  82. Say goodbye to toxic people
  83. Learn from your grandparents (before it is too late)
  84. Have a true character that makes you proud
  85. Practise gratitude
  86. Focus on good news
  87. Genuine success cannot be faked
  88. Grow old disgracefully
  89. Breathe well
  90. Travel far
  91. Keep a journal
  92. Get lost … and find yourself again
  93. Plan ahead
  94. Tick off your bucket list
  95. Help to sustain the planet
  96. Connect with something bigger than yourself
  97. Unlearn everything
  98. Mentor others to success
  99. Leave a legacy
  100. Regret nothing

The 10 Things Successful People Never Do

  1. Never Close Your Eyes
  2. Never Hurt and Destroy
  3. Never Forget Where You Came From
  4. Never Stop Being You
  5. Never Lose Sight
  6. Never Waste
  7. Never Blindly Jump
  8. Never Lose Faith
  9. Never Stop Growing
  10. Never Say Never

12 Rules for Life (Jordan B. Peterson)

  1. Stand up straight with your shoulders back
  2. Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping
  3. Make friends with people who want the best for you
  4. Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today
  5. Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them
  6. Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world
  7. Pursue what is meaningful (not what is expedient)
  8. Tell the truth - or, at least, don’t lie
  9. Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t
  10. Be precise in your speech
  11. Do not bother children when they are skateboarding
  12. Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street

13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do (Amy Morin)

  1. They Don’t Waste Time Feeling Sorry for Themselves
  2. They Don’t Give Away Their Power
  3. They Don’t Shy Away from Change
  4. They Don’t Focus on Things They Can’t Control
  5. They Don’t Worry About Pleasing Everyone
  6. They Don’t Fear Taking Calculated Risks
  7. They Don’t Dwell on the Past
  8. They Don’t Make the Same Mistakes Over and Over
  9. They Don’t Resent Other People’s Success
  10. They Don’t Give Up After the First Failure
  11. They Don’t Fear Alone Time
  12. They Don’t Feel the World Owes Them Anything
  13. They Don’t Expect Immediate Results

Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff (Richard Carlson)

  1. Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff
  2. Make Peace with Imperfection
  3. Let Go of the Idea that Gentle, Relaxed People Can’t Be Superachievers
  4. Be Aware of the Snowball Effect of Your Thinking
  5. Develop Your Compassion
  6. Remind Yourself that When You Die, Your ‘In Basket’ Won’t Be Empty
  7. Don’t Interrupt Others or Finish Their Sentences
  8. Do Something Nice for Someone Else - and Don’t Tell Anyone About It
  9. Let Others Have the Glory
  10. Learn to Live in the Present Moment
  11. Imagine that Everyone Is Enlightened Except You
  12. Let Others Be ‘Right’ Most of the Time
  13. Become More Patient
  14. Create ‘Patience Practice Periods’
  15. Be the First One to Act Loving or Reach Out
  16. Ask Yourself the Question, ‘Will This Matter a Year from Now?’
  17. Surrender to the Fact that Life Isn’t Fair
  18. Allow Yourself to Be Bored
  19. Lower Your Tolerance to Stress
  20. Once a Week, Write a Heartfelt Letter
  21. Imagine Yourself at Your Own Funeral
  22. Repeat to Yourself, ‘Life Isn’t an Emergency’
  23. Experiment with Your Back Burner
  24. Spend a Moment Every Day Thinking of Someone to Thank
  25. Smile at Strangers, Look into Their Eyes, and Say Hello
  26. Set Aside Quiet Time, Every Day
  27. Imagine the People in Your Life as Tiny Infants and as One-Hundred-Year-Old Adults
  28. Seek First to Understand
  29. Become a Better Listener
  30. Choose Your Battles Wisely
  31. Become Aware of Your Moods and Don’t Allow Yourself to Be Fooled by the Low Ones
  32. Life Is a Test. It Is Only a Test
  33. Praise and Blame Are All the Same
  34. Practice Random Acts of Kindness
  35. Look Beyond Behavior
  36. See the Innocence
  37. Choose Being Kind Over Being Right
  38. Tell Three People (Today) How Much You Love Them
  39. Practice Humility
  40. When in Doubt about Whose Turn It Is to Take Out the Trash, Go Ahead and Take It Out
  41. Avoid Weatherproofing
  42. Spend a Moment, Every Day, Thinking of Someone to Love
  43. Become an Anthropologist
  44. Understand Separate Realities
  45. Develop Your Own Helping Rituals
  46. Every Day, Tell at Least One Person Something You Like, Admire, or Appreciate about Them
  47. Argue for Your Limitations, and They’re Yours
  48. Remember that Everything Has God’s Fingerprints on it
  49. Resist the Urge to Criticize
  50. Write Down Your Five Most Stubborn Positions and See if You Can Soften Them
  51. Just for Fun, Agree with Criticism Directed Toward You (Then Watch It Go Away)
  52. Search for the Grain of Truth in Other Opinions
  53. See the Glass as Already Broken (and Everything Else Too)
  54. Understand the Statement, ‘Wherever You Go, There You Are’
  55. Breathe Before You Speak
  56. Be Grateful when You’re Feeling Good and Graceful when You’re Feeling Bad
  57. Become a Less Aggressive Driver
  58. Relax
  59. Adopt a Child Through the Mail
  60. Turn Your Melodrama into a Mellow-Drama
  61. Read Articles and Books with Entirely Different Points of View from Your Own and Try to Learn Something
  62. Do One Thing at a Time
  63. Count to Ten
  64. Practice Being in the ‘Eye of the Storm’
  65. Be Flexible with Changes in Your Plans
  66. Think of What You Have Instead of What You Want
  67. Practice Ignoring Your Negative Thoughts
  68. Be Willing to Learn from Friends and Family
  69. Be Happy Where You Are
  70. Remember that You Become What You Practice Most
  71. Quiet the Mind
  72. Take Up Yoga
  73. Make Service an Integral Part of Your Life
  74. Do a Favor and Don’t Ask For, or Expect, One in Return
  75. Think of Your Problems as Potential Teachers
  76. Get Comfortable Not Knowing
  77. Acknowledge the Totality of Your Being
  78. Cut Yourself Some Slack
  79. Stop Blaming Others
  80. Become an Early Riser
  81. When Trying to Be, Focus on Little Things
  82. Remember, One Hundred Years from Now, All New People
  83. Lighten Up
  84. Nurture a Plant
  85. Transform Your Relationship to Your Problems
  86. The Next Time You Find Yourself in an Argument, Rather than Defend Your Position, See if You Can See the Other Point of View First
  87. Redefine a ‘Meaningful Accomplishment’
  88. Listen to Your Feelings (They Are Trying to Tell You Something)
  89. If Someone Throws You the Ball, You Don’t Have to Catch It
  90. One More Passing Show
  91. Fill Your Life with Love
  92. Realize the Power of Your Own Thoughts
  93. Give Up on the Idea that ‘More Is Better’
  94. Keep Asking Yourself, ‘What’s Really Important?’
  95. Trust Your Intuitive Heart
  96. Be Open to ‘What Is’
  97. Mind Your Own Business
  98. Look for the Extraordinary in the Ordinary
  99. Schedule Time for Your Inner Work
  100. Live This Day as if It Were Your Last. It Might Be!

Finding Your Element (Ken Robinson et al.)

  1. Finding Your Element
  2. What Are You Good At?
  3. How Do You Know?
  4. What Do You Love?
  5. What Makes You Happy?
  6. What’s Your Attitude?
  7. Where Are You Now?
  8. Where’s Your Tribe?
  9. What’s Next?
  10. Living a Life of Passion and Purpose

How Successful People Grow (John C. Maxwell)

  1. Become an Intentional Learner: Growth Doesn’t Just Happen
  2. Develop Self-Awareness: You Must Know Yourself to Grow Yourself
  3. Believe in Yourself: You Must See Value in Yourself to Add Value to Yourself
  4. Set Aside Time to Reflect: Learning to Pause Allows Growth to Catch Up with You
  5. Embrace Discipline Daily: Motivation Gets You Going Discipline Keeps You Growing
  6. Seek Out a Positive Environment: Growth Thrives in Conducive Surroundings
  7. Become Highly Strategic: To Maximize Growth. Develop Strategies
  8. Turn Negatives into Positives: Good Management of Bad Experiences Leads to Great Growth
  9. Grow from the Inside Out: Character Growth Determines the Height of Your Personal Growth
  10. Get Used to Stretching Yourself: Growth Stops When You Lose the Tension Between Where You Are and Where You Could Be
  11. Make Smart Trade-Offs: You Have to Give Up to Grow Up
  12. Learn to Ask More Questions: Growth Is Stimulated by Asking Why?
  13. Find a Good Mentor: It’s Hard to Improve When You Have No One but Yourself to Follow
  14. Focus on Enlarging Your Potential: Growth Always Increases Your Capacity
  15. Help Others Reach Their Potential: Growing Yourself Enables You to Grow Others

How Successful People Think (John C. Maxwell)

  1. Cultivate Big-Picture Thinking
  2. Engage in Focused Thinking
  3. Harness Creative Thinking
  4. Employ Realistic Thinking
  5. Utilize Strategic Thinking
  6. Explore Possibility Thinking
  7. Learn from Reflective Thinking
  8. Question Popular Thinking
  9. Benefit from Shared Thinking
  10. Practice Unselfish Thinking
  11. Rely on Bottom-Line Thinking

How Successful People Win (John C. Maxwell)

  1. What Successful People Know About Winning
  2. Cultivate Humility: The Spirit of Learning
  3. Face Reality: The Foundation of Learning
  4. Accept Responsibility: The First Step of Learning
  5. Seek Improvement: The Focus of Learning
  6. Nurture Hope: The Motivation of Learning
  7. Develop Teachability: The Pathway of Learning
  8. Overcome Adversity: The Catalyst for Learning
  9. Expect Problems: Opportunities for Learning
  10. Understand Bad Experiences: The Perspective for Learning
  11. Embrace Change: The Price of Learning
  12. Benefit from Maturity: The Value of Learning
  13. Winning Isn’t Everything, but Learning Is

Lessons on Success (Napoleon Hill)

  1. Definiteness of Purpose
  2. Mastermind Alliance
  3. Applied Faith
  4. Going the Extra Mile
  5. Pleasing Personality
  6. Personal Initiative
  7. Positive Mental Attitude
  8. Enthusiasm
  9. Self-Discipline
  10. Accurate Thinking
  11. Controlled Attention
  12. Teamwork
  13. Adversity and Defeat
  14. Creative Vision
  15. Health
  16. Budgeting Time and Money
  17. Habits

Nine Things Successful People Do Differently (Heidi Grant Halvorson)

  1. Get Specific
  2. Seize the Moment to Act on Your Goals
  3. Know Exactly How Far You Have Left to Go
  4. Be a Realistic Optimist
  5. Focus on Getting Better, Rather Than Being Good
  6. Have Grit
  7. Build Your Willpower Muscle
  8. Don’t Tempt Fate
  9. Focus on What You Will Do, Not What You Won’t Do

Same as Ever (Morgan Housel)

  1. Hanging by a Thread: If you know where we’ve been, you realize we have no idea where we’re going.
  2. Risk Is What You Don’t See: We are very good at predicting the future, except for the surprises - which tend to be all that matter.
  3. Expectations and Reality: The first rule of happiness is low expectations.
  4. Wild Minds: People who think about the world in unique ways you like also think about the world in unique ways you won’t like.
  5. Wild Numbers: People don’t want accuracy. They want certainty.
  6. Best Story Wins: Stories are always more powerful than statistics.
  7. Does Not Compute: The world is driven by forces that cannot be measured.
  8. Calm Plants the Seeds of Crazy: Crazy doesn’t mean broken. Crazy is normal; beyond the point of crazy is normal.
  9. Too Much, Too Soon, Too Fast: A good idea on steroids quickly becomes a terrible idea.
  10. When the Magic Happens: Stress focuses your attention in ways that good times can’t.
  11. Overnight Tragedies and Long-Term Miracles: Good news comes from compounding, which always takes time, but bad news comes from a loss in confidence or a catastrophic error that can occur in a blink of an eye.
  12. Tiny and Magnificent: When little things compound into extraordinary things.
  13. Elation and Despair: Progress requires optimism and pessimism to coexist.
  14. Casualties of Perfection: There is a huge advantage to being a little imperfect.
  15. It’s Supposed to Be Hard: Everything worth pursuing comes with a little pain. The trick is not minding that it hurts.
  16. Keep Running: Most competitive advantages eventually die.
  17. The Wonders of the Future: It always feels like we’re falling behind, and it’s easy to discount the potential of new technology.
  18. Harder Than It Looks and Not as Fun as It Seems: “The grass is always greener on the side that’s fertilized with bullshit.”
  19. Incentives: The Most Powerful Force in the World: When the incentives are crazy, the behavior is crazy. People can be led to justify and defend nearly anything.
  20. Now You Get It: Nothing is more persuasive than what you’ve experienced firsthand.
  21. Time Horizons: Saying “I’m in it for the long run” is a bit like standing at the base of Mount Everest, pointing to the top, and saying, “That’s where I’m heading.” Well, that’s nice. Now comes the test.
  22. Trying Too Hard: There are no points awarded for difficulty.
  23. Wounds Heal, Scars Last: What have you experienced that I haven’t that makes you believe what you do? And would I think about the world like you do if I experienced what you have?

Secrets of Happy People (Matt Avery)

  1. Forget about being happy
  2. Who are you, and who do you want to be?
  3. Investing your time isn’t a waste of time
  4. Plan for happiness - since you might be dead tomorrow
  5. Slow down for the quick route to happy
  6. Stop chasing your tail
  7. Don’t try to be happy
  8. Celebrating your successes
  9. Get over it
  10. If you can’t beat them - beat them anyway
  11. Get real
  12. Optimism versus pessimism - versus realism
  13. Stop worrying about being happy
  14. Compared to other people, you’re rubbish
  15. It’s better to be worse off
  16. Are you certain you want to be positive?
  17. Motivation and reward
  18. Do it now!
  19. What’s the point?
  20. Cut it out
  21. Actively promoting passive positivity
  22. The godsend you come to hate
  23. Your future happiness lies in the past
  24. Your best today is tomorrow
  25. So you think your life sucks?
  26. Enjoy the things you hate
  27. Your happiness, your problem
  28. The ten kinds of happy - and how to find them
  29. The ten kinds of unhappy - and how to beat them
  30. Money is everything
  31. Write your own obituary
  32. Peace, tranquillity and calm… Now! Now! Now!
  33. Make as many mistakes as you can
  34. Move to a happier place
  35. The happiness gym
  36. Keep things in perspective
  37. You are happy - you just don’t know it
  38. Don’t settle for acceptance
  39. Good enough’ is not good enough
  40. You don’t want to be rich
  41. Richly poor
  42. The wealth of poverty
  43. Buy your way to happiness
  44. Everyday miracles
  45. The mania of calm
  46. Focus your focus
  47. By yourself, you’re never alone
  48. Don’t get boxed in
  49. Living for now
  50. Spying on yourself

Secrets of the NLP Masters (Judy Bartkowiak)

  1. Set a Realistic Goal
  2. Set a Compelling Goal
  3. Reframe the Goal
  4. Understand the Goal
  5. Understand Other People’s Reactions
  6. Know Whom to Model
  7. Keep the Goal Within Control
  8. Use Metaphors to Gain Confidence
  9. Focus on What You Want
  10. Know Who You Are When the Goal Is Achieved
  11. Delete Your Criticism
  12. Believe That There’s No Such Thing as Failure
  13. Don’t Distort Your Feedback
  14. Beware of Generalizing Your Feedback
  15. Change Your Beliefs Through Feedback
  16. Give Feedback That Your Staff Can Learn From
  17. Give Hypnotic Feedback to Change Behaviour
  18. Use the Feedback Sandwich
  19. Give Feedback Without Words
  20. Give Feedback to Your Children
  21. Manage Your Moods
  22. Anchor a Great State
  23. Be Aware of Unconscious Anchors
  24. Use Anchoring to Relieve Stress
  25. Use Anchoring for Sport
  26. Access the Inner CCTV Camera
  27. Look at the World from Second Position
  28. Use the Three Positions Flexibly
  29. Question Limiting Beliefs
  30. Conquer Your Fears
  31. Get Rapport Quickly
  32. Get Rapport with a Visual Person
  33. Get Rapport with an Auditory Person
  34. Get Rapport with a Kinaesthetic Person
  35. Teach Effectively with VAK
  36. Learn Visually
  37. Learn in Auditory Style
  38. Learn in Kinaesthetic Style
  39. Use ‘Big Chunk’ and ‘Small Chunk’ Processing at Work
  40. Give or Make a Choice Where There Is None
  41. Know Where You Are - Past, Present or Future
  42. Know When to Match - and When to Mismatch
  43. Use the Power of Disassociation
  44. Aim for What You Want Less Of
  45. Assess the Importance of Other People’s Opinions
  46. Time-Travel Your Way to Confidence
  47. Remember the Time When You Didn’t Have That Fear
  48. Swish Away Those Bedtime Monsters
  49. Be the Best Presenter in Your Team
  50. Escape the Drama Triangle