Are you looking for some books to challenge and inspire you? Here are our favourite self help books of 2022!
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Contents:
Stronger: Changing Everything I Knew About Women’s Strength – Poorna Bell
Have you ever through back to how horrible Physical Education was in school? Have you wondered now why you are so apprehensive when going to the gym? This book breaks all of that down and encourages you to establish healthy relationships with your body. Poorna’s story of tragedy allows us to remember that we are all stronger than we think!
Atomic Habits – James Clear
It was a fitting start to the year to pick up this book again and finish it this time (I had started this reading this book quite some many months ago but never made any meaningful progress in it). This time, when I picked up the book, I was barely able to put it down. There has been a reoccurring theme in the books that I have been reading recently and the podcasts that I have been listening too.
The power of habits was one of the them.
If there is a single concept that I wish was would cement within my own mind and also as a tip to all of those that listen, that would be the unimaginable power of compounding.
The human mind does not comprehend the true impact of effects of compounding. Whether that is in finance and savings, or in daily life. The fact that small little improvements make for big change over time is something that is very easliy overlooked.
Atomic Habits provides amazing insight into how we form habits, how we can reinforce that habits that we want to keep, and break the habits that we no longer want to continue. The book provided great insight into the psychology behind why we form habits, how to identify the cues that may be sparking them and how to tweak your life so that you can most of it.
Aimee and I are currently on a journey to transform and shape our lives into one that aligns with all of our highest values. As part of this, we both need to tweak our habits, reinforce our positive ones, remove the ones from our lives that do not serve us and build new habits from scratch. As I realised and extrapulated to this blog, the power of habit is crucial. Incremental but constant improvement is the only way that we will be able to refine this site into what we want it to be, or at least learn in the process. Finally finishing this book provided some realy valuable tools and insights into behaviour that we can both apply into our lives to be able to make the most of what we want it to be.
Burn Out – Emily & Amelia Nagoski
I heard about this book after listening to a podcast with Emily Nagoski. After loving Come As You Are I knew I had to get a copy of this too. Emily and Amelia cover the gender gap of being a woman and why this causes burn out in women.
In the book they talk about Human Giver Syndrome which is term I have only recently become familiar with. Human Giver Syndrome is when you feel a moral obligation to give more, more to your partner, your family and the world around you. I think Burn out is such a new topic however more and more people and businesses are really starting to see the impact and consequences on such the topic.
Though this book is written for a female audience I feel that no matter what it has something in it for everyone.
So how do you treat burn out? Well grab yourself a copy and find out!
Happy Sexy Millionaire – Steven Bartlett
Don’t let the title of this book throw you off…
I have only come to find out about Steven Bartlett relatively recently. My discovery of Steven was through his Diary of a CEO podcast episode when he featured one of my all-time favourite comedians, Jimmy Carr. The interview and the conversation that the two of them had on the podcast was not the conversation that I was expecting to be listening to when I first downloaded this episode. I saw an entirely different side of Jimmy Carr that is not often shared, and got a remarkable insight into whom he truly is a person, not just the stand-up comic and panel show host I knew.
Steven has a talent at being a very articulate speaker and presenter, but this is nothing that is revolutionarily new in the podcasting world. What truely sets Steven apart from the rest and drew me to listen to his shows is that Steven is an amazingly good listener and can digest what his guest share with him down to 1st principles. What generally follows as a result of this is a conversation that delves deeper than surface level answers and conversations.
Well, this characteristic in the way that he has been able to digest and break down thoughts and concepts is articulated in his book as he reflects back on his remarkable journey through life and business at the ripe age of 29. At this age, he has already started, grew and sold a 9 figure business, a feat that not many other people will accomplish in their entire lifetimes.
His book focuses on the the less glamorous things that he has learned as a result of the journey. I found this book to be insightful, inspiring and fascinating for many reasons. For anyone that is currently on the entrepreneurial path or chasing the goals of financial freedom, Steven breaks down idiilc perception that are typically glorified through Social Media. This book is very much about the reality of what achieving these goals means and as the subtitle of the book states, the unexpected truths around this.
From a ‘self help’ book, there are not many concepts that I think are revolutionary within the book but what is refreshing is the brutal honesty that these concepts are portrayed in.. I found Steven’s views to be confident without being arrogant, forthright but humble.
This book is definitely worth a read..
101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think – Brianna Wiest
After finding Brianna through social media with her quotes to challenge the way you think, we knew when she released a book that it was going to be a great read. This book is created to change the way you think and helps you to reflect on why you should pursue purpose and passion.
Though some of the essays in the book may be short don’t be too quick to judge the length of the essay by the power and impact that it is able to have. Each essay is curated with so much thought to challenge the human mind. All the essays will as the title says, change the way you think. Brianna has also written another book The Mountain is You which we also love and would recommend!
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