This has everything and nothing to do with health…
I’ll explain here. This is not a list of health resources, so clearly to an outsider it doesn’t apply to anyone interested in health at all.
But, in fact it has everything to do with it.
Finding your passion is #1 on my list of healthy practices… so when I mentioned this, I realized that I should provide (and you asked for) a list of resources of how and where you can do this.
So here’s the list…
Your question of the day: What are your top self improvement resources?
Click here, scroll down to the bottom of the page and leave a comment now!
Here’s where you can get all these…
The Power of Myth
Mind Mapping
Kevin Gianni’s Toolbox System Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
Gene Landrum’s Entrepreneurial Genius
Jack Canfield’s Success Principles
Mike Litman’s Greatness Held Hostage
StevePavlina.com
Tony Robbins
Psycho-cybernetics
Live Awesome!
Kevin
8:24 pm on August 4th, 2008
I don’t have anything to the list, as I’ve tried plenty of things that haven’t worked, but your list has provided me with quite a few new suggestions. I have to, however, disagree with your recommendation of Steve Pavlina, on the basis that his wife is a wacko who thinks she’s a psychic.
9:02 pm on August 4th, 2008
I would like to add any of the books or audio by Robert Kiyosaki.
9:06 pm on August 4th, 2008
Hey great choices! I’ve been meaning to check out Psycho-Cybernetics for a while now. Brian Tracy has some great things to say about success and goal setting a la Tony Robbins. So do some of the classics such as Think And Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill and The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Wattles. Some awesome self-improvement gurus from a slightly different perspective would be Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer and Eckhart Tolle
9:15 pm on August 4th, 2008
Hey Kevin, Great show as always. Thank you for all of the links and informations provided. You’re a gem! Hi Annmarie! You’re a gem too.
xoxoxo
9:16 pm on August 4th, 2008
I loved The Power of Myth. I’m going to check out Psycho-cybernetics and I’ll let you know what I think of it.
Thanks for the list, Kevin (and for filming, Annmarie!).
Lots of love to you,
Wendi
XOXOXO
9:17 pm on August 4th, 2008
p.s. I’ve always loved Creative Visualization by Shakti Gawain. It opened up the entire world to me when I read it as a young woman.
11:42 pm on August 4th, 2008
Repacking your Bags, How to Live a New Sense of Purpose. By Richard J. Leider & David A. Shapiro.
12:02 am on August 5th, 2008
I definintely want to explore your Top 10.
My Vision Board has long been an awesome tool. I’ve recently gained a lot from Dax Moy’s “Magic Hundred”.
http://www.daxmoy.com
My current project: work my way through incorporating your week of Top 10’s into my life.
Kevin, The setting for tonite’s show looked awesome! What a great environment in which to live.
1:16 am on August 5th, 2008
Hi Kevin, I would have to say the Bible is tops on my list. I think the Secret is a great book and does feature people like Canfield. My refrigerator is my vision board and then there are other “visions” tucked here and there like my closet or near the computer.
5:11 am on August 5th, 2008
I’d have to put my mum on my top ten! Whenever I go over to my parents’ house she’s always got a new book to show me or some great uplifting music or something along those lines. She’s good at catching me out when I’m talking negatively about something too. I always feel more, purposeful, focussed and inspired after I’ve been in her company.
Best mum in the world
Psycho-cybernetics sounds like a good read..another one for my amazon wish list!
Thanks for another great show guys.
6:04 am on August 5th, 2008
Religion and spirituality are dangerous things. They cause people to rely on untruths as the basis of their purpose and self-confidence. This is a terrible basis, as is anything built on lies. I know this will offend many, but I must say it because it’s something I feel very strongly about having been through it myself. Some religious folks will never experience the “crumble” as I described, but as they always say, ignorance is bliss. I firmly believe that religion causes more problems than it solves.
6:57 am on August 5th, 2008
Hi Kevin and Annemarie,
- - - Dede
Terrific list - and I cant wait to “interact” with each of them. The Bible is my #1 life and motivation “guidebook” - I always see many parallels to it in the reads you have recommended in the past. I’d better get started NOW - in order to read each one of them
7:22 am on August 5th, 2008
I agree with you Lauren that religion can sometimes cause strife, like all things when ego gets in the way. But spirituality based on finding your own truth and power within and connection with others on a higher level is creative and empowering. Yoga practices have never caused any harm, neither has the Dalai Lama who is an inspiration for our search for peace on earth amongst chaos.
Eckhart Tolle is amazing for his simplicity yet profound ways to discarding our dramas. I think any author that teaches the power of living in the moment and relating to others from your heart, along with acceptance and gratitude, can only lead to better things. As David Wolfe says, Have the best day ever!
9:32 am on August 5th, 2008
One book that is helping me a lot at the moment is The Four Agreements by don Miguel Ruiz. It has changed how I perceive everything in life.
@Lauren:
Religion and spirituality are not the same thing. I see what you mean about how religion relies on untruths. Religion is just a nice word for cult. But what makes you say spirituality is dangerous? I use to be an atheist and I has very unhappy. Life just wasn’t worth living. But now I’m on this spiritual path and I haven’t been happier with myself at any other time in my life! Spirituality isn’t ignorance. It’s learning to love and learning to see the truth, nothing else. People don’t need improvement, they need love and forgiveness, especially for themselves.
11:52 am on August 5th, 2008
I just knew steve pavlina would be mentioned, he’s been so helpful.
@Lauren, I second that religion does not equal spirituality, you should look up Einstein, and then quantum physics, the smartest people throughout the ages have always realised that we never know all the things we claim to know. The amount of knowledge that we have no access to at this moment in time is incredible. It’s also incredibly visible right now in the current medical paradigm that says nutrition and diet has litle effect on diesease and illnesses.
Once you claim to know everything, or that science knows everything, or even if you think that science is exact or a case of true or false you are very wrong. Science is based on experiment and observation, yet quantum physic s and the heisenburg principle tells us that the observer is not separate from that which is being observed.
I was rasied a catholic and finally just got out of my catholic high school so I also went through the crumble as you call it. Went straight to being an athiest, but I couldn’t reconicle my own views on life and the value of all life on the planet. I’m the biggest fan of Bill Hicks I know for a start. Check him out.
12:50 pm on August 5th, 2008
Hey Kevin,
Great Show and Great Advice…..I love The teachings of Abraham by Ester & Jerry Hicks…Ask and it is Given
Also just started studying the I Ching the book of change…..good stuff : )
1:44 pm on August 5th, 2008
Kevin,
It’s great to see an episode that isn’t directly about physical health. It helps teach us readers that everything inside us is intertwined- mind, body, and all that other good stuff!
Watching the show (I didn’t scroll down to the links) I was hoping you’d have Steve Pavlina on the list…He’s amazing! And yup, it seems he’s decided to stick to an 100% raw diet.
Can’t wait to check out the other resources! This was a great episode…I’d love to see more videos that steer away from the main topics of the show…
Yaffa
3:19 pm on August 5th, 2008
The Bible my favourite resource.
Religion is about human beings with all of their faults and wrong choices getting together in a church to learn and change and support.
The bible teaches about Jesus Christ and a personal relationship with Him, mostly about forgiveness and being forgiven, that is lasting love.
3:53 pm on August 5th, 2008
Hey Kevin!
This was an awesome list of resources, and THANK-YOU for loaning me your copy of Entrepreneurial Genius! I need to get it back to you (since it is autographed to you and all)… That book was great. I just finished it two nights ago and wrote the most important part of the book down. The book ends with these six words…
Get Excited Or Get A Job.
For some reason that really resonated with me. Which is good, since it was the end of the book!
My list:
-Think And Grow Rich (Napoleon Hill)
-Rich Dad, Poor Dad, and then especially, Cashflow Quadrant (by Robert Kiyosaki)
-How To Win Friends And Influence People (Carnegie)
-Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
-The Four Hour Workweek (Tim Ferriss - Gave me permission to do everything I was planning on doing anyway)
-Conversations With God (Walsch)
-Anatomy of the Spirit (Myss)
-Molecules of Emotion (Pert)
-”The Winner’s Seminar” with Jim Rohn
and so many more…
Thank-you for being so willing to share your resources Kevin!
Warmest,
Jonathan
http://www.HealingScarTissue.com
4:53 pm on August 5th, 2008
Today is Tuesday the 5th but I had to enter my 2 bits! I love Eckart Tolle. His books have transformed my life and I even stopped drinking wine every night. My other mentor is Richard Flint who is also a personal friend of mine. He has so many seminars about every aspect of a humans life and tells it like it is. He read me like a book and has helped me to look forward in life. Look up richardflint.com Love your show Kev….
10:31 pm on August 5th, 2008
For a small dose of daily insights I subscribe to http://www.dailyom.com/. I can’t wait to create a new vision board and read all these great resources, thank you so much, you are truly an inspiration for my self-improvement!
11:34 am on August 6th, 2008
i have done a myridad self-improvement thereapies over many years and my faves are
jungian archetypeal therapy
holodynamics is AMAZING AND TRANSFORMATIONAL! see http://www.holodynamics.com
heilkunst, a form of homeopathic trauma release. see http://www.homeopathy.com
angel therapy, see http://www.angeltherapy.com
anastasia’s books. see http://www.ringingcedars.com for her amazing series
esther and jerry hicks, who are the real basis of the secret.
4:21 pm on August 6th, 2008
Nearly 30 years ago I read a book, LOVE by Leo Buscaglia. Absolutely changed my life; helped me reach out in love to heal a relationship with a mother who had been quite abusive. I’m grateful this happened before she died!
5:58 am on August 7th, 2008
Douglas, I know the two are different. Thus I listed them as separate entities. However, I still believe that both are dangerous. Even spirituality infers a belief in something supernatural, and as such a belief is assumed and not scientifically or logically backed, such beliefs, to the extent that they could potentially affect others, are potentially dangerous. Anything done in the name of god or angels or anything else is a result of someone else’s spirituality or religion. And such an action is an irrational action–in many cases, an irrational negative action. I am an atheist and quite happy with my life; I do not feel the need to invent gods or spirits or angels or anything else to be satisfied. I do not feel the need to use spirituality as a crutch, and I feel that many people do. I find this to be a very sad thing, for the reasons I explained earlier.
11:28 am on August 7th, 2008
Love your Top Ten lists!
When I need to re-organize my direction, I re-read Julia Cameron’s book. “The Artist’s Way”
9:24 pm on August 7th, 2008
Stay with the classics. Fundamentals. I love Zig Ziglar.
7:10 pm on August 10th, 2008
One of the most profound books/audio CDs I read or listened to recently and still read again and again is Eckhart Tolle’s book “A New Earth”. It is so awesome. It may be that it has come in a time of my life when I am so ready to hear this. For me it put into perspective what is happening in this world. How we live in a world of collective unconsciousness. I am reminded of Henry David Thoreau who said “the mass of men led lives of quiet desperation.” That quiet desperation is unconsciousness itself. It permeates every aspect of our society. To change that it starts we us. With us being and living in consciousness. Living in the present moment without judgement and in complete unconditional love. By being the witness consciousness to our own mind. It’s not about programing our subconscious mind or pounding it will positive messages. Tolle instructs so elequently how to watch how our mind works. And knowing that we are not our mind but that we are much much more than that. Coming from that space of clear presence we can create life on this planet the way is should be. The way it was meant to be. But it starts with each one of us. A New Earth is literally a new heaven here on earth. I highly recommend reading this one before any of his other earlier books. Awesome.
1:30 am on November 19th, 2008
My all time favorite…Conversation with God (Neale Donald Walsch) and a very close second…
Things are Going Great in my Absence - How to Let the Divine do the Heavy Lifting. (Lola Jones) http://www.lolajones.com
Don’t think many people will ever see this since it’s already November! I saved some shows when I went out of town and am just now getting to them. Just in case someone is doing the same…I thought it might be worth sharing. AWESOME books!
Lauri
6:18 pm on December 31st, 2008
I agree, Conversation with God was my favorite for a long time! I loved that book.
Another one is Love without end by Glenda Green. She was at the raw spirit festival, the book is all about LOVE. One should definitely try her oils too!
with love,
Debbie