3 Questions That Determine Who You Really Are

Many people assume their ideal life will never be more than fantasy, but in reality, you have the power to create the life you dream about. In this book, life coach and self-help guru Tony Robbins provides insights and strategies to help you take control of every aspect of your life, from your emotions to your focus. In many cases, you can make transformational changes to your life through small adjustments, such as swapping out just one word in your vocabulary.

In this guide you’ll learn how your bad habits are wired in your brain, how to decode your negative emotions to find solutions to them, and how to create your destiny.

This guide compares and contrasts Robbins’s ideas with those of other popular self-help authors, as well as current scientific theories. This will provide you with background and a deeper understanding of the lessons in Awaken the Giant Within, as well as some alternative methods for taking control of your life.

In Unscripted, MJ DeMarco—entrepreneur, investor, and best-selling author of The Millionaire Fastlane—insists that there’s only one way to achieve financial success: Adopt an entrepreneurial mindset.

He claims that most people don’t practice this mindset and can’t achieve financial success because they have unproductive beliefs about money that dissuade them from pursuing an entrepreneurial path. However, he argues that though these beliefs are pervasive, they’re surmountable: You can remove their influence, cultivate an entrepreneurial mindset, and achieve your financial goals.

This guide walks you through DeMarco’s advice for cultivating an entrepreneurial mindset and achieving financial success, covering:

• How beliefs about money fall into one of three financial mindsets—each influencing how you manage your finances and the amount of wealth you accumulate
• Eight unproductive beliefs about money that prevent you from achieving the wealth that you want
• Actionable ways to remove the influence of unproductive beliefs and adopt an entrepreneurial mindset

Additionally, we’ll supplement DeMarco’s ideas with psychological research and practical advice from financial advisors and successful entrepreneurs.

What if you were just one step away from the life of your dreams? In The Power of One More, entrepreneur Ed Mylett argues that putting a little extra effort into anything you do can completely transform your life. Whether it’s doing one more set at the gym, waking up an hour earlier, or connecting with one new person, these small efforts add up over time to create big results. Mylett provides a guide for developing the mindset and habits to consistently go the extra mile and find greater success in all areas of life.

In this guide, we’ll lay out Mylett’s advice for adopting an extra-mile mindset, setting inspiring goals, mastering focus and time management, cultivating high-quality relationships, and overcoming obstacles. Along the way, we’ll compare Mylett’s tips with those of other personal development authors and suggest additional actionable strategies for going the extra mile.

In The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz contends that the vast array of choices presented to us leaves us stressed and indecisive. To lift this burden, Schwartz, a professor of social theory and social action, recommends we learn how to better navigate our choices, from groceries to health insurance.

Schwartz’s work combines psychology, economics, and his personal experiences. In this guide, we’ll examine the types of choices we face, the challenges of making choices, how excessive choices make these challenges more difficult, and how to live with expanded choice. Our guide adds scientific and cultural context to Schwartz’s ideas, plus updates on how choice has grown since the book’s publication.

Our lives are full of big decisions, yet our minds are wired to make bad ones. Authors Dan and Chip Heath claim that we make poor decisions due to our biases and illogical ways of thinking. In Decisive, they draw on psychology research to argue that it’s possible to overcome the cognitive flaws that impair decision-making. In this guide, we’ll walk you through the Heath brothers’ four-step process for improving our choices. You’ll learn how to:

• Overcome biases that distort your decision-making
• Develop options that you hadn’t considered before
• Gather credible information to inform your choices
• Put your emotions into perspective during tough decisions
• Prepare for a decision’s best-case and worst-case scenarios

As we explore this process, we’ll compare the authors’ ideas on decision-making to those of other experts on choice, such as Barry Schwartz, Annie Duke, and Daniel Kahneman. We’ll also contextualize the book’s ideas using research on how culture and society influence decision-making. Furthermore, we’ll supplement the Heath brothers’ strategies with actionable steps.

Like most people, Paul Millerd was taught to place conventional, full-time work at the center of his life—but it made him miserable. Now, he’s a freelance blogger, consultant, career coach, and online course creator—and he’s much more satisfied with his life. In The Pathless Path, Millerd encapsulates his non-traditional approach to career success and lifelong happiness: deprioritizing work and pursuing a more meaningful, creative life through freelancing instead.

In this guide, you’ll learn about the historical trends that have led most Americans to prioritize work, the disadvantages of prioritizing work, and an alternative to this way of life—freelancing. You’ll also learn how and why Millerd shifted from the traditional workforce to the world of freelancing and his advice for making the transition yourself. In our commentary, we’ll talk about other perspectives on work and what makes life meaningful, and we’ll provide additional tips for those interested in freelancing.

Does it sometimes feel like everybody else has life figured out except you? Rachel Hollis, author of Girl, Wash Your Face, wants you to know that’s a lie. Life is messy and complicated for everyone, but once you understand that you are in control of your life, you can begin to live with passion, joy and confidence.

Aimed at women who feel overwhelmed and unworthy, Girl, Wash Your Face examines 20 lies that can hold you back from becoming who you were meant to be. Hollis details her own mistakes, traumas and life lessons, and shares with readers the strategies she used to overcome these lies and find true happiness.

What’s the secret to a long-lasting, loving relationship? Therapist and self-help author David Richo says the secret is mindful loving—a compassionate, realistic approach to love based on the Buddhist practice of mindfulness. In How to Be an Adult in Relationships, Richo explains how mindful loving can improve your emotional health, your relationships, and the world you live in.

In this guide, you’ll learn about the foundations of mindful loving, how to overcome the emotional wounds that hold you back from loving yourself and others mindfully, and how to use it to build a successful, healthy relationship…and eventually, a better world. We’ll supplement Richo’s ideas with actionable advice from other relationship experts, and we’ll dive more deeply into some of the spiritual and psychological concepts underlying Richo’s arguments.